The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is buying black spruce and jack pine cones at $100 and $30 per bushel, respectively. Cones must be ripe, closed, and clean . Black spruce ...

For Christianson, that means focusing on forest health and wildlife on the newly cleared site, and in the black spruce-tamarack and jack pine stands elsewhere on the property. Foresters working ...

Late-season spruce grouse hunters in northern Minnesota’s boreal forests are asked to voluntarily submit feather samples for the final year of a genetics research project being conducted by ...