Numerous species of songbirds and small mammals feed on white pine seeds, while snowshoe hares and various deer graze on the needles. The bark, roots, and seedlings are food for pocket gophers. The ...

Pollen cones are found on older branches in the upper part of the tree ... gray squirrels are responsible for most of the white pine reproduction. It is also the main diet of several birds.

The bark on younger trees is dark and relatively smooth, and becomes quite furrowed in older trees. The eastern white pine adds a ring of side branches and a terminal shoot yearly with age. The cones ...

I just purchased two Eastern white pine trees that are approximately 8 feet tall. The limbs are very sparse... much space between the branches. Is there anything that can be done to make the tree ...

Q: I have a white pine tree that's about 4 feet tall ... It's much harder to remove a competing leader later when that branch is big and has blocked the better, more central leader from sending ...

We go walking and collect any fallen branches that have needles. We love to use them in honeys, vinegars and teas. You know you have a white pine by the amount of needles grouped together in the ...

White pine blister rust, an invasive fungal disease, is the primary threat to the pine. Dead red branches and orange-rimmed canker sores are signs of the disease, which can eventually kill the tree.