While a potent reminder that Eastern North Carolina is prime fire country, it also showed the challenges even a controlled burn can sometimes pose. But wildfires in the state's coastal plain will ...

At one point in the 1970s, the red-cockaded woodpecker population had dipped as low as 1,470 clusters — or groups of nests.

In North Carolina, for example, 45 percent of the state’s 4.7 million homes lie ... 30 years teemed with trees planted to harvest longleaf pine needle straw. Instead, the land went unmanaged ...

In North Carolina, for example, 45 percent of the state’s 4.7 million homes lie ... 30 years teemed with trees planted to harvest longleaf pine needle straw. Instead, the land went unmanaged ...

Sketch tree illustration Longleaf Pine Vector sketch illustration. Black silhouette of Longleaf Pine isolated on white background. Drawing of evergreen coniferous plant, alabama and North Carolina ...

Photo Credit: gailhampshire / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 Coral bean grows differently in different parts of the state: In North ... pine tree species are native to Florida, including the slash pine ...

This year’s official White House Christmas tree comes from western North Carolina, one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane ...

The Pine Tree Flag was the original state flag, adopted in 1901 before being replaced by the current flag in 1909. In the new ...

North Carolina is the second-largest Christmas tree-producing state in the nation, and it harvests over 3 million Christmas trees annually, according to Greene. It is unclear how many Fraser firs ...