Reports on cone monitoring allow pine growers to take advantage of bumper seed crop years to improve reproduction and help restoration efforts. “People who manage longleaf pine forests have long ...

Hunt for longleaf pinecones Not to be deterred, or dissuaded, I thought instead if I looked hard enough and long enough, I could surely find enough cones for 20 tables.

Longleaf pines put out the most pine cones, which release seeds, during heavy seed production years called masting years, which occur every seven to 10 years. They’ll go through a grass stage ...

In serotinous conifers, mature cone scales are naturally sealed shut ... can be found in a southeastern United States longleaf pine forest ecosystem. This once large habitat is shrinking in ...

Longleaf pine forests once covered an estimated 90 million ... from taking root in the grass beneath the pines, but the cones that carry the seed to ground are regularly removed from the campus ...

Riding in a cherry picker's bucket, Darren Loomis rose above a pine forest to behold a rare ... boat hook and started snapping off longleaf cones. They dropped to the ground, where a co-worker ...

The Department of Conservation and Recreation said the seedlings that will be planted will be propagated from the pine cones of native old-growth longleaf trees located in another nature preserve ...

One of the highest honors a citizen of North Carolina can receive — the highest one can receive directly from the governor, in fact — is the Order of the Longleaf Pine. This award is granted ...

Currently, the longleaf pine is the most long-lived of Florida’s pines, some living 300 to 400 years. It is also the most endangered. Those precious cones I have been trying to find are formed ...