The pine cone was so huge that as I passed a garage sale near home, I could see it from the road. And I knew I had to have it. Best of all, this wasn’t really a sale, rather a large pile of items no ...

The sight of huge pine cones on the table at a recent longleaf pine exhibit at Norfolk Botanical Garden was all it took to make me perk up and take notice. Up to 10 inches long, longleaf pine cones ...

Pine cones are a familiar holiday decoration, but how much do you really know about them? While many types of trees have cones, you’ve probably seen cones from pine, spruce, fir and cedar trees most ...

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 ...

CODY - The large crop of whitebark pine cones in some areas of Wyoming could attract grizzly bears and the state game department is warning hunters and other outdoor recreationists to be alert. The ...

Everyone’s heard about the wonders of California’s coastal redwood trees. They can live for hundreds, even one or two thousand years, all while enduring West Coast fires, storms and pests. But there’s ...

McLellan said last summer about 6,500 rust-resistant saplings were planted in the Banff National Park field unit and in ...

Watch as oven-dried pine cones are transformed into a striking hybrid bowl using multi-colored epoxy resin with blue and gold ...

Great Falls once sported a restaurant on 15th Street North called the Pine Cone Patio. That business is gone, but now there’s a sculpture on River’s Edge Trail west of the Electric City Water Park ...