Many kinds of birds, as well as squirrels, chipmonks, and other small animals, eat pine cone seeds.
Squirrels eat the seeds at the base of the scales near the pine cone's center.
they eat conifers, cones, pine cone, acorns
Seeds, especially the seeds contained in pine cones. The crossed bill helps them extract the seeds from the cone.
Woodpeckers with a good water source nearby
Spread the cone open & eat the seeds raw, roasted or dried. The seeds can also be ground & used as a type of flour for bread.
A type of pine cone that requires fire for the seeds to be dispersed from the cone
If you have a seed that is a tree seed, then it will grow into a tree. The corn plant is not a tree seed, but the peach seed is. The acorn is a tree seed, the pine cone is a collection of pine seeds. Now you get the point.
Squirrels, Eastern Chipmunks, Voles and mice eat pine needles and seeds. White-tailed deer, Eastern cottontails and beaver eat the bark. Several birds also eat pine seeds including the Pine Warbler, White-breasted Nuthatch and Black-capped Chickadee.
A squirrel doesn't actually eat a pine cone. It does, however, eat pine nuts, and these are hidden within the cones. The number of pine nuts a squirrel will eat will vary, but most squirrels that live in pine forests are frequently looking for more, either to eat or to store.
Seeds
Yes, but you can overdose and you'll get ill. You can also eat acorns. Both seeds must be cut or crushed, leeched in water, and cooked before eating. Also, any evergreen that produces a pine cone type seed has seeds that can be eaten.