It's well documented that trees which produce seeds for propagation, like oak, pine, maple and the various nut trees among many others, have what's called "mast years" where an unusually high ...

There's one for the country too – in 2004, Congress signed a bill declaring the oak tree as the national ... North Carolina's state tree is the pine. Because eight species of pine are native ...

That suggests that longleaf pine forests are either being intentionally restored or converted to other types of forest, like oak or faster-growing pine varieties. That’s key information for ...

This increase was most evident in somewhat cooler areas where oak-pine forests transitioned to northern hardwoods. They found that fire-tolerant trees—which possess fire-adaptive traits such as ...