The pine achieved its dominance through a crafty trick. Many lodgepole pines produce serotinous cones — cones whose scales remain glued shut by resin, sometimes for decades, until the heat of a ...

Kat Gray, with the Forest Service, held up a sprig with pine cones. “Lodgepole pine cones need fire to open up their fresh healthy cones and release the seeds,” she said. “We're mimicking ...

The fundamental chemistry of combustion lies at the core of the living world. When it happens within a cell it’s called ...

Lodgepole pine and jack pine rely on the pulse of flame through their crowns to melt away the waxy bond that holds their cones closed; their seeds then fall to fresh ash below, where they can take ...

Students from Granite High School in Philipsburg traveled by bus into the heart of the Pintler Face timber project Monday to ...

For instance, ponderosa and lodgepole pines contain toxic elements and should be ... Perhaps you might even be inspired to make your own pine cone jam using your foraging knowledge. Read the original ...

This week's Master Gardener column also includes advice about overwintering tulip bulbs and how to contact the MU Plant ...

Humans can eat seeds from certain pine cones like Sugar Pine, Western White Pine, Longleaf Pine, Red Pine, and Pitch Pine. However, it’s best to avoid eating seeds from Ponderosa Pine, Yellow Pine, ...

The pine cones will then close up in the water. 3. Shake off the excess and pop them in the oven to bake for approximately 90 minutes, but keep checking on them to make sure they don’t burn.

Recently on social media, I saw an adorable picture of a pine cone planted in a small pot with tiny pine trees growing out of ...

Another time, she came back from a trip to the Eastern Sierra with a bag of fresh pinon cones, Pinus monophylla, one of several Western-state species that produce edible pine nuts. My challenge ...

The film is about the journey of a person and is narrated in three parts from the lens of the protagonist: when he is a teenager, when he is 28 years old, and finally when he is 38. The three ...