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A majestic mature Blue Oak (Q. douglasii) at Stanford.

A young Blue Oak enjoying a good start in a tree shelter. Acorns and seedlings used.

Lessons learned from three generations of native oak plantings.

Oaks grow, but often slowly, on the typically thin, rocky ridgetop soils.

Young oaks protected from rodents, cattle, and deer. Tree shelter nearly 6-feet tall.

The tree on the far right of the previous photo, a few years later, without irrigation.

Despite claims to the contrary, the oaks split the tree shelters without girdling.

Rodent cages extend 18-inches below ground. Cages are consistently split and sloughed.

A rodent cage splitting and sloughing off 15 year old Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia).

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