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 ...

One of the simplest examples of how plants adapt to ensure that their species survives is found in pine cones. Evergreen trees that produce cones are called conifers. There are more than 600 species ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One tree in Central Oregon has helped protect iconic whitebark pine trees across the West. Scientists have sequenced the tree’s genome, a genetic map, that scientists help plant more resilient trees ...

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 ...