Eastern white pine is a very handsome tree widely used for landscaping, windbreaks and visual barriers. It can be hard to ...

But the tree is not just old. It’s old-growth. When the seed first sprouted, longleaf pine covered about 92 million acres of the American South, in a swath from east Texas to Virginia.

Researchers found the treatments decreased the forest's density by more than 50% while almost doubling the growth rates of individual trees ... that be ponderosa pine or hardwood." ...