Hartwick Pines State Park is home to the largest remaining stand of old growth pine trees in the Lower Peninsula.

The eastern white pine is native to North America and can be found from Newfoundland to the Appalachian mountains. Historically, it’s been heavily logged, so old white pines are rare. But there are a ...

“The Monarch” presided as the crowned sovereign of the 49-acre Old Growth Forest at Hartwick Pines State Park for years. It was 325 years old when it died in 1996. This Eastern white pine was – and ...

This Eastern white pine, located by Erik Danielson in an old-growth grove in Hamilton County, could be the largest of its kind yet recorded. (Chloe Bennett/Adirondack Explorer) HAMILTON COUNTY — In ...

As the official state tree of Michigan, the white pine has a high standard to uphold in Northern Michigan’s outdoors. MyNorth contributor and Petoskey-based writer Russ Capaldi shares his admiration ...

MY YARD IS FULL of eastern white pine trees, and every three years or so, it is full of pine cones. This is one of those years. Pine cones have fallen all over the yard, the sidewalk, the driveway.

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