In the new version created by Adam Lemire of Gardiner, the tree is an Eastern White Pine, which is Maine’s state tree, and has 16 branches to represent the 16 counties in Maine. It’s become a ...

grander than any other tree in New England. Colonists found many important uses for the exceptionally light and strong white pine wood. Ship masts were cut easily from the long, straight boles, and ...

Called “the tree of peace” by Native Americans, Pinus strobus or eastern white pine is a beautiful evergreen that is well populated in the New Jersey landscape. As a young tree, it has a ...

To this day, it is revered as the “tree of peace” by nations of the confederacy and beyond. Today, the Menominee Nation borrows the story of the white pine from the Oneida for its Peace Tree ...

Ten thousand feet up in the White Mountains ... the oldest tree, is known only by a limited group of mostly forestry researchers and employees. Image A single-leaf pinyon pine in the Inyo National ...

The proposed plate would succeed the chickadee design and would feature a buff background, a navy blue star and a dark green pine tree. The new plate would still display the state’s nickname ...