The abundance of eastern white pine cones doesn’t have major ecological impacts, although insects and animals will feed on the seedlings and “a lot of the seed will survive and germinate ...

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.

Eastern white pine loaded with pine cones - January 2024 - Clifton Park - Saratoga County. TOPICS: Pine cones Mast year Trees Weather Seeds Production Climate Stressors.

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.

Five needle pines- I love them! It was the stately eastern white pine that introduced me to these trees of the five needle ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking for your help in collecting red and white pine cones for its reforestation program. The state nurseries pays $125 per ...

Pine siskins prefer the cones of eastern white cedars. In the northeast, we have a strong crop of these cones so siskins should be around for at least the first part of the winter. Many will move ...

“The state nurseries pay $125 per bushel of red pine cones and $60 per bushel of white pine cones,” the DNR said in a news release. This is time for pine cones to fall across most of Wisconsin ...

From late summer in 2023 into the summer of this year, red crossbills appeared in southern Maine in large numbers. This influx was likely driven by the abundant pine cones of eastern white pine.