Many people are under the impression that a pine tree is just that — a pine tree but not all the ‘pine’ trees in a mountain forest are actually pine trees as some are larch, some spruce, some fir ...

As you admire your holiday decorations, pause to examine a pine cone (or a spruce cone or a fir cone). What is this dry, brown thing in your hand, with its airy rows of scales? Think of it as ...

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.