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Bring a bushel of fresh red pine cones to the Michigan DNR and you can earn $100 and help grow trees

Close-up image of fresh red pine cone and needles (Michigan Department of Natural Resources) Know where to find Red pine trees? If you collect a bushel of red pine cones next month you could earn $100 ...
The Gazette

Pine cones aren't just decoration. They're tools trees use to survive.

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 ...
Purdue University

South Bend Tribune – Michiana pine trees are loaded with cones that will soon hit the ground. Here’s why.

South Bend Tribune: Look up the next time you pass a pine tree in Michiana — chances are it’s loaded with cones. Conditions this season are ripe for an abundance of these woody reproductive organs of ...
WBUR

A spruce tree at the Arboretum has produced a rare batch of half male, half female cones

Female (left) and male spruce cones at the Arnold Arboretum. It's a more common sight to see separate male and female cones like this. (Courtesy William "Ned" Friedman) Every spring the conifer trees ...
Post Register

More than just pine trees produce cones

The pine cone was so huge that as I passed a garage sale near home, I could see it from the road. And I knew I had to have it. Best of all, this wasn’t really a sale, rather a large pile of items no ...
Indiatimes

Only 3 types of trees exist everywhere on Earth and here is what makes them unbelievable

Nature classifies all trees into three main groups. Deciduous trees shed leaves seasonally. Evergreen trees remain green year-round. Coniferous trees reproduce using cones. These categories explain ...
Star Tribune

Minnesota's native pine trees produce beautiful cones for seeds and crafts

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 ...
High Country News

A tree-climber’s tale of harvesting cones to save whitebark pines

You wipe the sweat out of your eyes with a sap-stiffened glove, clinging tightly with your other hand to the one live branch, thick as a hammer handle, that is keeping you up here and alive, 30 feet ...
The Bulletin

Guest column: Is that a pine, fir or spruce? Here’s how to ID those Central Oregon trees

Is that tree a pine, a fir or a spruce? Here's a handy guide to identifying the many species of trees populating Central ...
JSTOR Daily

Temporal variation in breeding and cone size selection by three species of crossbills Loxia spp. in a native Scots pinewood

The breeding biology and cone size selection of crossbills was studied mainly during 1995 to 2002 at Abernethy Forest, Scotland, an ancient native Scots pine Pinus sylvestris wood, where only a single ...
South Bend Tribune

Michiana pine trees are loaded with cones that will soon hit the ground. Here's why.

Look up the next time you pass a pine tree in Michiana — chances are it's loaded with cones. Conditions this season are ripe for an abundance of these woody reproductive organs of pine trees, and they ...