How to Use jack pine in a Sentence

jack pine

noun
  • The seedlings include red pine, white pine, jack pine and oak as well as maple, balsam fir and spruce.
    — Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2021
  • The southern pine beetle’s primary targets are pitch pines, red pines and jack pines.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2018
  • 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 land, wedged between two farm towns and covered in palmetto and jack pines, did not, at first, look promising.
    — 1843, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The jack pine is the second most common species of pine in Minnesota, behind the red pine.
    — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Budworm caterpillars come from reddish-brown moths which lay masses of green eggs in the branches of jack pines.
    — Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the afternoon, after weeks of sunshine, severe thunderstorms suddenly rolled over the forest’s vast tracts of black and white spruce, subalpine fir, jack pine, and aspens.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
  • While Western ecosystems adapted with fire — and many species like lodgepole and jack pines in fact require fire to regenerate — drought-stricken, stressed trees burn faster, and more readily, than healthy ones.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 15 Apr. 2026
  • After the glaciers that covered New England retreated, around fourteen thousand years ago, the forests here consisted mostly of spruce and jack pine, species that now thrive much farther north.
    — Drew Pendergrass, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Huron forest is susceptible to seasonal forest fires, and home to jack pine trees, which are home to certain Kirtland’s warbler and which drop needles that are extremely flammable.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2024

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