In among the quietest places in the continental United States, where the discordant whine of newly hatched cicadas is usually the loudest sound, the metallic growl of a 28-ton masticator overpowers ...

Varlin Higbee walks through a dense pinyon-juniper woodland in Lincoln County, Nev. The county commissioner would like to see the trees harvested and used for the production of biofuel. (Louis Sahagun ...

In a recent interview, Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Pendley claims that the BLM is justified in the large-scale mechanical removal of pinyon-juniper forests because they are not ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. A nasal, laughing bird call echoed through the Ortiz Mountains in northern New Mexico this September. A couple of pinyon jays chattered loudly as they ...

Oregon’s Western Juniper gets a bad rap. Although it’s a native species, juniper forests have spread uncontrollably in the central and eastern parts of the state, threatening sage grouse habitat and ...

Environmental groups are asking a judge to halt what they are calling a “scorched-earth plan” to clear-cut pinyon-juniper forests along the eastern edge of Nevada. The Center for Biological Diversity ...

A pinyon jay sits in a juniper tree. The bird is a keystone species whose range extends across 13 Western states. Credit: NPS This story was originally published by Undark and is republished here ...

LAS VEGAS— Western Watersheds Project and the Center for Biological Diversity filed an appeal today challenging a federal court decision allowing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to clearcut ...

For many years, BLM had plotted a massive deforestation project aimed at destroying ancient juniper trees living on Juniper Mountain in the Owyhee Canyonlands. The mountain is a long high ridge cut by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Varlin Higbee walks through a dense pinyon-juniper woodland in Lincoln County, Nev. The county commissioner would like to see the ...