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The prosperous timber industry, having stripped the region of its eastern white pine, was in retreat, leaving poverty in its wake.—Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025 View More For his most recent project, Old Growth, the photographer Mitch Epstein traveled around the United States to document some of the country’s most ancient trees: big-leaf maples, eastern white pines, sequoias, redwoods, birches.—Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 17 June 2024 Four species are native to this northern region: eastern white pine, northern red oak, bur oak and red maple.—Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024 Populated and thick with red bark willow and eastern white pine, only a narrow, winding trail sliced through the shadows.—Cathleen Calkins, Longreads, 23 Jan. 2024 In the 1990s, Bernd Heinrich and John and Colleen Marzluff — all then at the University of Vermont — climbed trees in Maine before sunset to watch ravens roosting in groves of eastern white pine trees.—Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2023 Among the most beautiful and delicate-looking Illinois conifer and one that is native only to the northern part of the state is the eastern white pine.—Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
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