When it comes to old trees, the Western U.S. can’t be beat. There are bristlcone pines in the Great Basin over 4,000 years old, giant sequoias that have survived since 1,000 B.C. and coast redwoods ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In the biology of pine trees, the cone is actually not the seed at all, but a ...

Michigan’s state tree is the proud Eastern white pine, but the national champion is elsewhere. Maine, also known as the “Pine Tree State,” is home to the titleholder. The Great Lakes State could have ...

MEDFORD -- Unless you are an eagle soaring above the conifer forest or a big-tree hunter with an eagle eye, chances are you wouldn't give the ponderosa pine a second glance. After all, it is but one ...