If the needles are bent, they will break cleanly, unlike that of ornamentally planted Austrian pine. The long needles cause a very tufted look to the tree canopy. Bark on the red pine is scaly and red ...

And so that really, the trees were in rapid decline since then," said VanGinhoven. VanGinhoven says the Red Pine isn't a bad tree by any means, it just doesn't belong in West Michigan.

Minnesota Forest Industries (MFI) is teaming up with Minnesota McDonald's restaurants to give away more than 55,000 red pine tree seedlings this Arbor Day, which is Friday, April 29.

Red pine trees can be found all over the state, according to the DNR, especially the sandy soils of central, northwest and northeast Wisconsin. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

OCONTO COUNTY, Wis. (WLUK) -- A forest regeneration project is underway in Oconto County. Loggers are clearing thousands of acres of red pine trees, and seedlings will be planted in their place ...

In order to have enough seeds for a single year's worth of seedlings, the DNR needs to buy more than 120 bushels of cones. Not every red pine cone is worth gathering, though.

Red pine scale was first found in North America in 1946 in Easton, Connecticut, and on Long Island in 1950. In the next couple of decades it killed all the red pine trees south of Westchester County.

Michigan DNR to pay $100 per bushel of red pine cones this September The pine cones will be used to harvest seeds to plant more red pine trees across the state.