MY YARD IS FULL of eastern white pine trees, and every three years or so, it is full of pine cones. This is one of those years. Pine cones have fallen all over the yard, the sidewalk, the driveway.

A combination of factors has likely led to an unusually large amount of pine cones in Maine this year. In fact, it’s a “special” time in the cycle that only happens every five years or so ...

Red squirrel middens — piles of cones stripped of their seeds — are obvious at the bases of many white pine trees. I’ve even been hit on the head by falling cones more than in previous years.

White pines can easily grow to be over 200 feet tall and more than six feet in diameter. Its pine cones grow to be 4 to 8 inches when mature, and are a light reddish brown. The seeds of the white pine ...

As a white pine, leaves are in bundles of five and usually under four inches in length. A fun trick is to age the needles. ... and have less prickly pine cones than the ponderosa.

The clear, high peaks of the greater Yellowstone region once were studded with huge stands of majestic white-bark pine forests, some of the trees 1,000 years old.

White pine needles come in bundles of five and are much shorter — 2 to 4 inches long, ... Unlike some other pine species, red pine cones do not need fire to open — in fact, ...

Thankfully, about 5% of sugar pine and western white pines are genetically resistant to the blister rust fungus. The SPF was founded to counteract the threat of this deadly pathogen to Tahoe’s ...

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: The pine nut is a beloved ingredient in Mediterranean cuisine - think pesto hummus or stuffed eggplant. In Lebanon, its export is so valuable it's called white gold, but an ...

The pine nuts have been threshed, left their shells behind, and all that's coming out now is white gold. (SOUNDBITE OF PINE NUTS FALLING) SHERLOCK: They're gathered up and packed - a traditional ...

“Red pine, white pine, jack pine are native pines, those are the most popular seedlings that people purchase for industry, for private landowners, for everybody and so we need a lot of seed to ...