As specialized forestry staff at the USFS vanish and pinecone cowboys—the highly skilled contractors sent out in the field to ...

THREE RIVERS, Calif., June 8 (UPI) --A national park in California shared a note from an apparently young visitor who felt remorse after taking a "pine cone" home. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National ...

THREE RIVERS, Calif. (WJZ)—A youngster who took a cone from a national park in California says they are sorry in a heartfelt note sent to the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. The national park ...

A crew carrying hoe dags and bags of sequoia seedlings hike up a burned hillside in Alder Creek grove, in Sequoia Crest. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) The worker stabbed the loamy soil with a ...