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 ...

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 ...

You take one down, pass it around, three-thousand ponderosa pine seedlings on the wall. While boy scouts are unlikely to sing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A ponderosa pine cone collecting effort is underway in parts of New Mexico and Colorado as conservationists and land managers work to gather seeds to restore forested landscapes following wildfire.