For the Sugar Pine Foundation (SPF) – a local non-profit dedicated to restoring Tahoe’s sugar pines and overall forest health – this September was incredibly busy with seed collection because 2024 ...

With warmer temperatures, an increase in the frequency of drought and the severity of wildfires on the rise, many scientists say the necessity of seed collection and reforestation efforts has become ...

California’s drought and bark-beetle infestation killed more than 129 million trees between 2012 and 2016 in the Sierra Nevada. But amid the devastation stood some survivors. At the time, UC Davis ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is going to pay you to collect red pine cones this fall. According to a DNR news release, the red pine seed collection will go toward the DNR's ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is asking the public for help collecting red pine cones and has increased its payment to $95 per bushel for clean, ripe and closed ...

Remaking a forest requires a lot of seeds, and in 2025 things were starting to look dire as the longleaf pine seed supply dwindled across the Southeast. The U.S. Forest Service published its annual ...

Sisters, Oregon — Brittle pine needles and twigs snap under Don Grandorff’s boots as he crunches his way through Deschutes National Forest, the August air scented with sap and wildfire smoke. Without ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- The Wisconsin DNR wants to buy your pine cones. Specifically, unopened red pine cones. The DNR's Boscobel tree nursery will be using up the last of the red pine seed it has in ...