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 ...

As Brian Kittler, chief program officer for the Resilient Forests program at the nonprofit American Forests, told CBS News, if nothing is done to restore a forest in the wake of a wildfire, the area ...

MADISON, Wis. -- If you come across unopened pine cones over the next few weeks, staff with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources may want them. The DNR is asking for help with collecting red ...

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “tree seeds?” Perhaps it’s the avalanche of silver maple samaras (commonly called “helicopters”) that collect in gutters in the spring. Or maybe ...

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 ...

Medford, Oregon — In the heart of Southern Oregon's Fremont-Winema National Forest, crews are going to new heights to harvest a precious commodity. "We're looking for the ripe cones on the top of 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 ...

Make money this September by collecting a bushel of pine cones. One bushel will net you $75 and help the Michigan Department of Natural Resources plant trees in state forests. Starting Sept. 1, you ...

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 ...