Clark’s nutcracker is known to be a specialist on whitebark and limber pines, but it also caches seeds from ponderosa pine. Click here on on photo to see larger image. Photo by Jeff Mitton. Seeds ...

But whitebark pine trees do depend on the nutcracker to disperse their seeds throughout their range that stretches across 80 million acres in seven western states and two Canadian provinces.

Bill Nickles walks past containers filled with Ponderosa pine cones, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, at Cal Fire’s Reforestation Center in Davis, Calif. The cones are being prepared to have their seeds ...

Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico has gathered seeds, ponderosa, Douglas fir, spruce and other pine variations, from about 2.5 million trees in over a decade. In the Black Hills of South Dakota, an ...

Ponderosa pine regeneration in the Southern Rocky Mountains has become a concern for forest management as fires increase in their intensity and duration, leaving behind homogeneous landscapes that ...

This was a lucky omen indeed. Cones mean seeds, and seeds are in short supply. Mature ponderosa pine cones are collected in 2019 during a mast seeding year. Photo by Lauryn Wachs, courtesy of the ...

A seven-year study at NMSU’s John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center at Mora is providing land managers and researchers with data regarding seed source selection as they restore forests ...

Nine treatments involving three species of pine (Jeffrey pine, Pinus jeffreyi; ponderosa pine, P. ponderosa; and lodgepole pine, P. contorta) seeds were used to test five hypotheses concerning the ...

In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, photo Ponderosa pine cones sit on a tree stump after being cut open during a demonstration at Bandelier National Monument near Los Alamos, N.M. A cone collecting ...

Seeds dawdled through the air as I set up my tent at Ponderosa Campground above Blue Mesa Reservoir in the Curecanti National Recreation Area. It was really quite entertaining. The pines at this ...