How fire, people and history shaped the South’s iconic longleaf pine forests | Column

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the ...
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A tree that lived up to its name: ‘The Monarch’ ruled over an old growth forest for generations

“The Monarch” presided as the crowned sovereign of the 49-acre Old Growth Forest at Hartwick Pines State Park for years. It was 325 years old when it died in 1996. This Eastern white pine was – and ...
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Decades after wildfire, a Mongolian pine forest springs back to life

SUKHBAATAR, Mongolia — In the midst of barren sandy land scattered with dry shortgrass, a vast Scotch pine tree forest swallows the viewer into greenery. A total of 11 million trees span 3,250 ...
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The Survivors: Sugar Pine Trees and the Future Forest

California’s drought and bark-beetle infestation killed more than 129 million trees between 2012 and 2016 in the Sierra Nevada. But amid the devastation stood some survivors. At the time, UC Davis ...
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An Extreme Tree Hunt in the Sierra Nevada

Hugh Safford is calling out into the woods for a tree. That’s normal enough for a forest ecologist, but the tree he’s searching for — the Jeffrey pine — was not, until recently, expected to live ...
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Greece: Forest fire destroys jobs of pine resin collectors

AGDINES, Greece (AP) — For generations, residents in the north of the Greek island of Evia have made their living from the dense pine forests surrounding their villages. Tapping the ubiquitous Aleppo ...
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Lebanon's historic pines are dying, one cone at a time

Insects threaten Lebanon's prized pine nuts Forest and livelihoods at risk, prices rising Trees left vulnerable by ravages of climate change BKASSINE FOREST, Lebanon, Nov 11 (Reuters) - In the heart ...