Called “the tree of peace” by Native Americans, Pinus strobus or eastern white pine is a beautiful evergreen that is well populated in the New Jersey landscape. As a young tree, it has a pyramidal ...

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 ...

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 ...

The tallest trees this side of the Rockies, our eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) is one of the most – if not the most – economically and culturally important species in the Northeast. Though the ...

Photographer Brian Kelley travels to every corner of the state in search of the biggest and oldest trees he can find The “Bigfoot” Eastern white pine, Adirondacks. Photographer Brian Kelley has been ...

I like walking in the forest. My golden retriever dog, Timber, loves it too. Some people call it “forest bathing.” According to National Geographic, the term “forest bathing” started in Japan in the ...

For members of the Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee, Confederacy, the commemoration in 2025 of the bicentennial of the Erie Canal is a bittersweet event. In the decades before the canal was built, during ...

Nicknames often convey something of significance to a U.S. state’s identity, and when it comes to Maine, “The Pine Tree State” says it all. This seemingly simple nickname conveys Maine’s long-standing ...