ST. PAUL -- The Department of Natural Resources is seeking the public’s help in collecting black spruce cones to alleviate a shortage of black spruce seed in northwest and northeast Minnesota. To ...

The original Christmas tree was a Spruce, which is distinguished by its cone shape and whorled branches. The needles of a Spruce are attached singly to the branches rather than in bunches, in a spiral ...

Look up, look down, and look all around because it appears to be another banner year for cones. Pine cones, spruce cones, fir cones when we talk “pine” cones it includes them all and today that’s just ...

Female (left) and male spruce cones at the Arnold Arboretum. It's a more common sight to see separate male and female cones like this. (Courtesy William "Ned" Friedman) Every spring the conifer trees ...

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If you've recently walked down a street and stopped in your tracks after spotting far more cones than expected on a spruce tree, you're not the only one. According to Ed Johnson, Professor of ...

The state's black spruce seed cupboard is bare. So the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is paying people $85 a bushel — up from $70 last year — for the cones to meet spring orders for ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is proving that the phrase "money doesn't grow on trees" is not necessarily true. According to the DNR officials, they are looking to ...

The Superior National Forest is again buying jack pine cones from the public and this year is asking for black spruce cones as well. Cones, used for seed in reforestation efforts, will be accepted ...