The Sugar Pine Foundation is collecting Jeffrey Pine seeds in efforts to restore wildfire burn areas. During this time of year, the Sugar Pine Foundation usually collects cones but due to smoke and ...

ALONG THE BURNT MESA TRAIL, N.M. (AP) — With snow ready to fall, the scramble was on to collect as many ponderosa pine cones as possible. A crew outfitted with spurs, ropes and hard hats scaled hefty ...

When a truck delivery of pine cones arrives at a reforestation center in Davis, California run by California’s fire agency, it starts a monthslong process—just one step in the complicated work to ...

“Each bushel of seed or cones collected helps grow the next generation of Minnesota’s forests,” said Nicole Schafer, DNR seed and cone consultant. “We count on local seed sources and dedicated ...

Conservationists are teaming up with the U.S. Forest Service and logging companies to clear scorched land and make room for ...

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 ...

Thousands of acres of burned trees that remain years after a wildfire raced through part of Bandelier National Monument near Los Alamos, New Mexico. AP With warmer temperatures, an increase in the ...

A rare pine tree dubbed the "dinosaur tree" because as a species it is millions of years old, has produced seeds for the first time, after being nurtured for a decade in the UK. The Wollemi pine is ...

In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, photo Ponderosa pine cones sit on a tree stump after being cut open during a demonstration at Bandelier National Monument near Los Alamos, N.M. A cone collecting ...