Minnesotans can get paid for collecting red pine cones

When a forest is impacted by fires, wind events or the timber industry, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, with help from the State Forest Nursery near Akeley, steps in to help ...
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Minnesota Pays $95 a Bushel for Red Pine Cones as Bumper Crop Arrives

Minnesota's state nursery is asking residents to head into the woods and start picking pine cones, and it's willing to pay ...
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Belgian tree climbers seek climate resilience in pine cones

Perched atop a larch tree, Luca Bruscia, a sporty 25-year-old pruner, collects pine cones that Belgian authorities hope will ...
New Hampshire Union Leader

The Outside Story: Pine cones: The complicated lives of conifer seeds

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.
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Pine trees without the pine cones?

TIFTON, GA (WALB) - A Turfgrass scientist from Tifton is working to breed a tree with pine cones or pollen. For the past nine years, Wayne Hanna has been working to produce a coneless pine tree. Hanna ...