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Make Pine Cone Christmas Trees with Kids for Holiday Fun

Learn how to make the cutest pine cone Christmas trees, a fun holiday craft idea for kids! This is a great family activity and very easy. Skills Required: None. You’ll be painting pine cones and some ...
The Gazette

Pine cones aren't just decoration. They're tools trees use to survive.

One of the simplest examples of how plants adapt to ensure that their species survives is found in pine cones. Evergreen trees that produce cones are called conifers. There are more than 600 species ...
walb

Pine trees without the pine cones?

TIFTON, GA (WALB) - A Turfgrass scientist from Tifton is working to breed a tree with pine cones or pollen. For the past nine years, Wayne Hanna has been working to produce a coneless pine tree. Hanna ...
Yahoo

These Pine Cone Crafts Make the Prettiest Fall Decorations

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you're pining for a fall activity, these pine cone crafts are fun for kids and adults alike! Not only ...
New Hampshire Union Leader

The Outside Story: Pine cones: The complicated lives of conifer seeds

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.
Duluth News Tribune

Ask a Master Gardener: Weather influences pine cone production

Q: I’m wondering why there seem to be thousands of pine cones on the ground this year. I hope you can write an article and reference what might be causing this and if it may have any correlation to ...
South Bend Tribune

Michiana pine trees are loaded with cones that will soon hit the ground. Here's why.

Look up the next time you pass a pine tree in Michiana — chances are it's loaded with cones. Conditions this season are ripe for an abundance of these woody reproductive organs of pine trees, and they ...
Post Register

More than just pine trees produce cones

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 Denver Post

Fire-ravaged forests get help from pine cone collectors

ALONG THE BURNT MESA TRAIL, N.M. — With snow ready to fall, the scramble was on to collect as many ponderosa pine cones as possible. A crew outfitted with spurs, ropes and hard hats scaled hefty tree ...
Kennebec Journal

There are a lot of fallen pine cones in Maine right now. Here’s why.

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Purdue University

South Bend Tribune – Michiana pine trees are loaded with cones that will soon hit the ground. Here’s why.

South Bend Tribune: Look up the next time you pass a pine tree in Michiana — chances are it’s loaded with cones. Conditions this season are ripe for an abundance of these woody reproductive organs of ...