Red pine plantations are unfairly maligned by some elements within the environmental community. In reality, red pine plantations are often a legacy of past efforts to rejuvenate the forest. They ...

The red pine tree, found in North America, can perhaps be best likened to the underwhelming cousin of the more widely known white pine. The qualities of the white pine made it a staple for the early ...

Red pine has long been a fast-growing, attractive and relatively disease-free forest tree species. While many natural stands exist, most red pine was planted. A great deal of Michigan’s red pine was ...

HELENA - Helena's city commission met last week to earnestly discuss something that three years ago would have been a sacrilege: logging Mount Helena city park. The mountain park, as iconic to this ...

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 ...

BELLAIRE, MI – An invasion of beetles is coming, and it will bring another wave of damage to the already battered Michigan Northwoods. Participants at last week’s annual Michigan Society of American ...

The Wisconsin DNR needs your help to collect pine cones – mature red and white pine cones, to be specific. State nurseries will pay money for the pine cones so they can be used for its reforestation ...

Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Minnesota’s official state tree might be the red pine, but you should really ...