Good for you! I encourage you to plant as many oaks as you can in as many places as you can. Oak woodlands (especially white oak woodlands) from California to Washington are getting harder to find. The usual culprits are to blame (over grazing, exclusion of fire, conversion of woodlands to golf courses and strip malls, etc.). There's an excellent (and quite affordable) publication put out by the University of California called "Regenerating Rangeland Oaks in California" that I recommend to any prospective Johnny Appleseeds (or should I say Oakseeds) out there. It has good advice for successful planting of oak as well as resource lists for oak regeneration projects.<br><br>There's another book that might be useful as a survival guide in that type of region. I read it a long time ago but believe it was called "Ishi". It was about the last member of a tribe that lived in (I believe) Northern California. The book did a good job describing how he lived in his environment. <br><br>I "collect" oaks sort of like birders "collect" birds. Haven't ever made it south of Sacremento (and the fog was so thick I'm not sure I was really there) but I hope to travel down the coast to see some oaks I have never seen. Maybe one of the restaurants down there will have some "acorn stew" on the menu (or perhaps bangors and mast?).<br><br>