If anyone thinks planting trees is hard on the back - try planting 170,000 of them - all by hand. This year, that many trees were planted in the Jackson County Forest, including 163,500 jack pine and ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces you to a native Indiana conifer typically found in sandy soils near Lake Michigan, the Jack pine. This tree is ...

Needles on a jack pine branch are browned and curled after the tree was infested with budworm. (Left); A group of jack pine trees that have been infested with jack pine budworm show browned needles on ...