Volunteers are needed this spring to help plant pine trees for the still-rare songbird, which exclusively nests in young jack pine forests in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ontario. A jack pine planting ...

LANSING, Mich. – Steps are being taken to protect Michigan’s pine trees from the mountain pine beetle. The mountain pine beetle is a destructive forest pest in North America.

The rot-resistant white pine was unrivaled as a timber producer for 300 years, including its use for ships, ... and is the state tree of Maine and Michigan. In Ohio, ...

Beetles, aphids, viruses and fungi are marching into Ohio, attacking the majestic trees that fill our forests, line our streets and grace our yards. And there's very little we can do to prevent ...

Tree-killing pests such as native pine bark beetles thrive in areas with stressed, damaged pine trees and fresh pine debris — and after the late March ice storms, northern Lower Michigan has ...

Related: 11 invasive species to watch out for in Michigan Several other types of trees are found around the state. To help you identify what you're looking at, we've created a tree guide with ...

As the official state tree of Michigan, the white pine has a high standard to uphold in Northern Michigan’s outdoors.MyNorth contributor and Petoskey-based writer Russ Capaldi shares his ...