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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Wisconsin DNR needs your help to collect pine cones – mature red and white pine cones, to be specific. State nurseries will pay money for the pine cones so they can be used for its reforestation ...

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 ...