The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is purchasing black spruce pine cones at a rate of $200 per bushel and jack pine cones for $60 per bushel. "The DNR's seed shelves are bare, and over the ...

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Those metal bands, also known as baffles, strapped around trees are not holding the tree together, but they do have a purpose ...