Pine cones are all around us in holiday celebrations. Ever wondered which kind is which? Here's a guide to help you identify some common ones. Bristlecone pine: The cones are 1½ to 4 inches long, with ...

Monty Marengo, of Glacier Cone Company, holds a sugar pine cone at his residence in Polson on Friday, July 27. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Pine cones dipped in a white decorative paint sit in ...

Look up, look down, and look all around because it appears to be another banner year for cones. Pine cones, spruce cones, fir cones when we talk “pine” cones it includes them all and today that’s just ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The Sugar Pine Foundation is a small South Lake Tahoe-based nonprofit that has been dedicated to saving the sugar pines of the region by planting thousands of seedlings in ...

In 1859, a deposit of silver was discovered in a peak of the Virginia Range, the first major silver discovery in the United States, kicking off a silver rush that brought thousands of prospectors to ...

A thick blanket of snow covers the Tahoe Basin, its grasses and trees dormant as they wait for spring. But tucked in an office on the southwest shore of Lake Tahoe, Sugar Pine Foundation Executive ...

The Sugar Pine Trail in Cuyamaca that climbs up to Middle Peak was once home to some of the grandest old pine and fir trees in the county. Its namesake, the sugar pine, is the largest native pine in ...

What conifers are native to Marin County? We certainly don’t have the number of pines, hemlock, spruce and firs that grow in the Sierra Nevada. “Marin Flora” by John Thomas Howell and others describe ...