DULUTH, Minn. (AP) --Officials with the Superior National Forest are paying members of the public to collect native jack pine cones. U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Kris Reichenbach tells the Duluth ...

Forest Service Savannah River employees held their annual longleaf pine cone collection event at the Savannah River Site recently, gathering approximately 700 bushels of pine cones. These cones will ...

BEND, Ore. (AP) - Driving from his job in north Bend to his home south of La Pine, John Scoggin stops to pick up ponderosa pine cones in the Deschutes National Forest. While he enjoys doing so, he ...

Key takeawaysIn years when pine cone production is very low, forest songbirds sometimes migrate in large numbers into cities, ...

"We're looking for the ripe cones on the top of the tree," said Brian Kittler, chief program officer for the Resilient Forests program at the nonprofit conservation group American Forests. Using lift ...

Monty Marengo, of Glacier Cone Company, holds a sugar pine cone at his residence in Polson on Friday, July 27. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Pine cones dipped in a white decorative paint sit in ...

My 9-year-old son, Jack, stood at the Pine Hill Park trail entrance in Rutland studying the sign welcoming us to an interactive trail called the Pine Cone Adventure Forest. A map showed the locations ...

The Superior National Forest is again buying jack pine cones from the public and this year is asking for black spruce cones as well. Cones, used for seed in reforestation efforts, will be accepted ...

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DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Officials with the Superior National Forest are paying members of the public to collect native jack pine cones. U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman ...