MY YARD IS FULL of eastern white pine trees, and every three years or so, it is full of pine cones. This is one of those years. Pine cones have fallen all over the yard, the sidewalk, the driveway.

Pine cones, in a way, made Minnesota what it is today. In the state's early colonial history, our towering white pines became the backbone of the lumber industry that Minnesota's major cities were ...

Whitebark pines are unmistakable, with their stout, twisted trunks — shaped but not dominated by the wind — topped with clumps of needles on upswept branches. But by 2016, over half of those still ...

Today in Illinois, we have very few native conifers; the fact that these cones can only be found where humans have planted ...

The Outside Story Last summer, I regularly passed a stand of towering white pine trees at Camp Plymouth State Park in Ludlow, where I live and work. Most days, I saw at least one hairy woodpecker, a ...

On a windswept promontory in Central Oregon, the embattled whitebark pine is being given a second chance to thrive. Around 100 seedlings of the threatened tree were carefully planted Thursday on ...

A white pine rises into the sky on a tract of land belonging to John Rajala Thursday, October 13, 2022 near Grand Rapids, Minn. CATHY WURZER: The State Capitol Christmas tree is now in the Capitol ...

I think everyone here in the Seacoast area has noticed the huge amount of white pine cones produced this year. Large quantities litter the ground. Red squirrel middens — piles of cones stripped of ...

Whitebark pine, an iconic but rare species of pine tree that can be found at high elevations across central Oregon’s forests, will start to receive special protection after it was listed as threatened ...