The Department of Natural Resources is seeking the public’s help in collecting black spruce cones to alleviate a shortage of black spruce seed in northwest and northeast Minnesota. To address ...

According to the DNR officials, they are looking to pay people in northeast and northwest Minnesota to harvest black spruce cones, which are needed to help the DNR meet 2021 reforestation goals.

Littlefork is among the eight Department of Natural Resources forestry offices throughout northeastern Minnesota purchasing native black spruce cones from harvesters during October and November.

Black spruce can be differentiated from other spruces in several ways. Its bark is coarser and darker. However, the cones are better indicators. Black spruce cones are pudgy, rarely over an inch ...

MINNESOTA (Valley News Live) - Minnesota’s State Forest Nursery is looking for people to collect black spruce cones this winter, and they will even pay you for them. The seeds found inside the ...

The biggest need is for Jack pine, red pine and black spruce cones, and the DNR is putting out the word hoping more people will go out to pick cones and earn some cash. Prices paid range from $20 ...

The DNR needs hundreds of bushels of black spruce cones within the next few weeks and continuing through February. The price this year is $85 per bushel. With some help from the public ...

The DNR’s stash of black spruce cones is so low that the agency is “kind of starting from scratch,” said Mike Reinikainen, the DNR’s forestry silviculture program coordinator.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is in need of hundreds of bushels of black spruce cones within the next few weeks to meet state and county spruce seed orders for spring 2021 ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is buying black spruce and jack pine cones at $100 and $30 per bushel, respectively. Cones must be ripe, closed, and clean . Black spruce ...

Female (left) and male spruce cones at the Arnold Arboretum. It's a more common sight to see separate male and female cones like this. (Courtesy William "Ned" Friedman) Every spring the conifer ...

ST. PAUL -- The Department of Natural Resources is seeking the public’s help in collecting black spruce cones to alleviate a shortage of black spruce seed in northwest and northeast Minnesota.