How to Use jack pine in a Sentence

jack pine

noun

• Kirtland’s warblers lay eggs in nests built on the ground under the low-hanging branches of jack pine trees.
  — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2019
• The southern pine beetle’s primary targets are pitch pines, red pines and jack pines.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2018
• The property features a mixed forest of mature oak, jack pine, white pine and red pine as well as lowland conifers near the river, including cedar.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2019
• Regional replanting can include up to 19 native species, from white spruce and jack pine to hemlock and Douglas fir.
  — Luc Forsyth, National Geographic, 8 June 2018
• To circumvent this the state instituted tree harvests for some of Michigan’s oldest jack pine and aspen stands about 30 years ago.
  — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2018
• Wildfires historically swept through the region every few decades, burning down overgrown jack pines and popping open cones that produced new ones.
  — John Flesher, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• Timber receipts offset the cost of replanting jack pine needed to support a viable bird population.
  — Michael Doyle, Science | AAAS, 8 Oct. 2019
• Wildfires historically swept through the region every few decades, burning down larger jack pines and popping open cones that produced new ones, ensuring an adequate supply of young trees for the warblers.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
• By planting new young jack pine forest and implementing a cowbird removal program, conservation managers helped the warblers begin to recover their numbers.
  — Wendy Mitman Clarke, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2017

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