As a non-North Carolina native, I did not know the meaning of Tarheel. I am a self-identified tree-hugger environmentalist, so I was interested to learn. The long leaf pine is not the state tree of ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In the biology of pine trees, the cone is actually not the seed at all, but a ...

MEDFORD -- Unless you are an eagle soaring above the conifer forest or a big-tree hunter with an eagle eye, chances are you wouldn't give the ponderosa pine a second glance. After all, it is but one ...

Tony LaRussa Thursday, March 3, 2022 11:47 a.m. | Thursday, March 3, 2022 11:47 a.m. Ken Interval doesn’t think of himself as some sort of sleuth. But the Pine resident has keen observational skills ...