Jack Rajala, a leader in the state’s logging and lumber industries for decades and the godfather of modern efforts to restore Minnesota’s stately white pine forests, died early Tuesday after battling ...

If anyone thinks planting trees is hard on the back - try planting 170,000 of them - all by hand. This year, that many trees were planted in the Jackson County Forest, including 163,500 jack pine and ...

Indiana has three species of native pine trees that have very restricted locations in our state. They are the eastern white pine, jack pine and Virginia pine that is also sometimes know as scrub pine.

Needles on a jack pine branch are browned and curled after the tree was infested with budworm. (Left); A group of jack pine trees that have been infested with jack pine budworm show browned needles on ...

According to CBC, the chief, who died in 2017 at the age of 83, had owned a 333-acre plot of land near Lennox Island in ...

BAXTER — An environmental improvement project at Mississippi Overlook is moving forward. A jack pine savanna restoration received approval from the Baxter City Council in August. The city approved a ...

UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. (WJMN) — Little caterpillars with a big appetite. The Department of Natural Resources thinks the budworm caterpillar, a hungry herbivore, could be the reason jack pine trees in ...

Deep in northern Michigan’s Huron-Manistee National Forest, the air reverberates with the sound of a tree harvester picking up fully grown jack-pines out of the ground like toothpicks. Once the trees ...

There are significant forest damages towards southwestern Douglas County, Wisconsin. Over 19 thousand acres of forests have low to moderate damages from last winter’s snowstorm. About two thousand ...

Is forest management to blame for Canadian wildfires? With climate change making fire seasons worse, experts say forest management has its limits.

LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY, Minn. — Just a few years into his career as a Department of Natural Resources forester, Bill Lockner got assigned to map a stretch of northern Minnesota for a timber sale in ...

University of Alberta researchers are closing in on finding an effective bait to get ahead of the destructive spread of mountain pine beetle, which is now killing not only lodgepole pine forests, but ...