The Washoe cones are red-purplish and only about 2 1/2 to 4 inches long, which is relatively small, and have prickles pointing down, so that we could squeeze the cone and it would not be painful.

Pine Cone Christmas Tree Craft . To get ready to make this craft, you'll want to gather your supplies and set up an area for the kids (or yourself) to paint.

Learn how to make the cutest pine cone Christmas trees, a fun holiday craft idea for kids! This is a great family activity and very easy. Skills Required: None. You’ll be painting pine cones and ...

Many people imagine that pine cones—or the individual scales within the pine cone—are the tree's seeds, and by planting the pine cone you can grow a new pine tree. That's not the way it works ...

Pine trees don't produce the same amount of cones each year, he says, to throw off the insects that eat the cones. "Trees do this as a way of avoiding these predators, because if they produce the ...

A Turfgrass scientist from Tifton is working to breed a tree with pine cones or pollen. For the past nine years, Wayne Hanna has been working on ways to produce a coneless pine tree.

Pine cones can live in a tree for 10 years without falling, so each tree can have cones of different ages in different stages of development. Easy pine cone craft.

GREEN RIVER - Wanted: About 20 good men willing to climb 100-year-old whitebark pine trees in the Bridger-Teton National Forest to pick pine cones for grizzly bear recovery.