The Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) is an iconic Michigan tree. It stands out in the winter and is known for its soft ...

You’ll find a wide variety of cones among the conifers at the Arboretum on a snowy winter day: white pine cones as long as your hand, ...

The abundance of eastern white pine cones doesn’t have major ecological impacts, although insects and animals will feed on the seedlings and “a lot of the seed will survive and germinate ...

Sugar pine: The cones are woody, 10-20 inches long, as much as 4 pounds, with thin scales, borne at tips of long upper limbs. Size distinguishes them from western white pine cones. The Oregonian ...

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.

Western white pine: The cones are woody, 5-12 inches long, slender and curved like a banana; scales are thin and often curve up at end, often covered with a white, sticky resin. -- Homes & Gardens ...

Red squirrel middens — piles of cones stripped of their seeds — are obvious at the bases of many white pine trees. I’ve even been hit on the head by falling cones more than in previous years.

A climber collects cones from a whitebark pine in Montana’s Bridger Range. The whitebark pine’s two biggest threats are blister rust, at left, a disease spread by an invasive fungus, and the ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking for your help in collecting red and white pine cones for its reforestation program. The state nurseries pays $125 per ...