Up above, trees are gloriously busy right now, their leaves a radiant green in the sunshine. They're gleefully photosynthesizing with all their might, but that's not all that those trees are doing.

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In the biology of pine trees, the cone is actually not the seed at all, but a ...

You may be wondering how to grow a pine tree from a pine cone. Well, you’re in luck because growing pine trees from seed is an easy way to produce lots of trees economically. Is it possible to ...

BEND -- A cascade of pine cones poured into a big gray funnel at the Bend Seed Extractory last month in a warehouse tucked behind the new Pine Nursery Park. The cones from ponderosa pines in the ...

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 ...

Q: Why do pine cones open when warm and dry and close when coldand wet? A: “There are actually male and female pine cones,” said BetsyRead, a biology professor at Cal State San Marcos. “The female ...

FORT COLLINS — Beanie Babies and Pokemon cards were all the rage among trading types in the 1990s. Today, another hot commodity has fallen quiet and out of the sight of most: pine cones. That’s right, ...

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 ...