When floating down Blackwater River before, it is hard to ignore the abundance of pine trees in the area. The native tree is ...

Forestry officials say that 2024 was a better year for statewide Pine tree populations when compared to the weather extremes ...

They include: There are 79 different species of pine trees in the United States. At least 12 are native to North Carolina. Many mistakenly believe the longleaf pine is the North Carolina state tree.

And, I have learned, the longleaf pine tree does not usually bear cones until ... phase called the “grass stage,” in which the young seedling looks like a clump of wire-needle grass.

Some 57 million acres of longleaf pine forest once stretched across the ... adding about 47 million trees. It was also one of only three states, along with Florida and Mississippi, that saw ...