Down a long, dirt backroad in this tiny Georgia town, the beginnings of millions of acres’ worth of forests are budding in a Rayonier seed orchard. The tiny pine cones forming in these carefully-bred ...

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 ...

Pine trees are an important source of timber–600 million are chopped down each year in the EU alone. But while the trees are harvested for their wood, billions of pine needles go to waste. Or, they ...