I feel like I’ve known red squirrels my entire life. They lived in the big spruce trees behind my childhood house and left little piles of picked-over pine cones amongst the mossy stumps.

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.

Pine cones are great decorations, but their living purpose is of greater fascination. Who knew when we were gluing red bows on them that they were busy protecting their posterity?

Red squirrels are entertaining and remarkable little mammals. Fleet-of-foot and extraordinary climbers, their specific habits and appearance make them unique among all our tree squirrels.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will pay you $100 per bushel of red pine cones during the month of September.

As it happens, Doug firs are hermaphrodites, producing both male and female cones. And by the way, Doug firs produce fir cones, not pine cones. Pine tree, pine cones. Spruce tree, spruce cones.

The pine cones will be used to harvest seeds to plant more red pine trees across the state.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is going to pay you to collect red pine cones this fall. According to a DNR news release, the red pine seed collection will go toward the DNR's ...

We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. Every fall, in a forest north of Moab, Utah, workers scale massive spruce trees, collecting cones that will become future forests.

Collecting a bushel of red pine cones this fall could earn you $100 and help the Michigan DNR plant trees in state forests.

Michigan residents can make some money by collecting red pine cones. DNR locations will be accepting a bushel of red pine cones for $100 from September 1-30.

A NC red spruce will stand as the Christmas tree at the nation’s Capitol. It was cut Wednesday from the Pisgah National Forest.