The DNR says that the Minnesota State Forest Nursery is interested in buying black spruce cones through February. There's also interest in jack pine and red pine cones. The seeds are going for $30 ...

The DNR is paying the public $85/bushel for black spruce pine cones, saying its cupboard is bare after a few poor years for the cones. In this picture, Kayla DeChaine, nursery specialist, guides ...

Mar. 8—BEMIDJI — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is purchasing black spruce pine cones at a rate of $200 per bushel and jack pine cones for $60 per bushel. "The DNR's seed ...

The seeds found inside the cones are needed to reforest nearly 3,000 acres of black spruce forest each year. The Minnesota DNR says the number of collectors has decreased and they are in critical ...

According to the DNR officials, they are looking to pay people in northeast and northwest Minnesota to harvest black spruce cones, which are needed to help the DNR meet 2021 reforestation goals.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources needs an additional 800 bushels of black spruce cones within the next few weeks. The DNR relies on individual collectors to provide cones to the state ...

I wandered deep into a spruce fir forest, far from a road, not far from a small lake, and sat down in the shadows to see what would happen. In just a few minutes, a party broke out — a dinner… ...

Black Spruce has a bluish cast to the newest needle growth. It has single needles attached to the twigs that are typically less than an inch long. The twigs have a reddish brown cast. This tree also ...

Evergreen trees that produce cones are called conifers. There are more than 600 species of conifers — which include pines, firs and spruce — each with its own type and size of cones.