In order to have enough seeds for a single year's worth of seedlings, the DNR needs to buy more than 120 bushels of cones. Not every red pine cone is worth gathering, though.

Red pine cones open and close quickly in response to humidity changes but they disperse most of their seed after opening the first time. Red pine cones are mature when they have turned from green ...

While red squirrels love pine nuts, they are complete omnivores, consuming a wide variety of food - seeds and nuts, fruit and fungi, insects and amphibians, bird eggs, even small mammals.

The pine cones will be used to extract seeds for red pine trees, which are fast-growing trees that produce products like lumber and pulpwood. An added bonus? Each bushel of red pine cones will ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is seeking help in replenishing its supply of red pine seeds. ... They are offering to pay $125 a bushel for properly collected red pine cones.

The donated pine cones help the Michigan DNR replenish red pine seed supplies, which are in high demand. Below is the DNR identification flyer. Learn more at Michigan.gov/Forestry .

Pine cones, mainstay of the ecosystem, are exceptionally plentiful this fall. Robert Miller: Before you kick that pine cone, consider its purpose Register Citizen Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Ready-to-pick red pine cones have closed scales and often show a green or purple tint. Jason Hartman, Roscommon's Department of Natural Resources Silviculturist, spoke with FOX 17 on Thursday.

Up above, trees are gloriously busy right now, their leaves a radiant green in the sunshine. They're gleefully photosynthesizing with all their might, but that's not all that those trees are doing ...

A pine cone is rolled in seeds during a wreath-building workshop at Woodcock Nature Center in Wilton Jan. 3. ... Cones from white pines are long and thin, red pine cones short and round.

Red squirrels love to stash away pine cones. Sue Pike [email protected]. I was out hiking with a friend when a red squirrel accosted us on the trail, clearly wanting something to eat.