A new study sheds new light on what is happening in pinyon-juniper woodlands across the West. The research is unique, in that it looks at both tree mortality, as well as recruitment, or new seedlings ...

Juniper is a broad genus that includes everything from large trees up to 30 feet tall to ground-hugging shrubs that spread wide but never get higher than 18 inches. While species like the fast-growing ...

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 ...

This is the sixth in a series of articles dealing with plants that survive despite what we humans demand of them. These plants I have dubbed "Parking Lot Plants." So far I have written about Daylilies ...

To the editor: Those who choose to ignore history will one day have to relive it. The proposal for Nevada and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to tear out juniper and pinyon pine forests to make ...

COLLEGE STATION – It’s been a tough 2017 so far for juniper and cypress varieties used in landscapes, as pests and diseases make the rounds, causing blight and tree die-offs. Kevin Ong, Texas A&M ...

Firefighters use drip torches to ignite slash piles during a prescribed burn. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management plans prescribed burns of juniper in areas around Baker and Malheur counties between ...

The federal government on Wednesday put on hold one of the largest-ever projects to remove juniper trees to help an imperiled species after an appeal by an environmental group seeking to halt the plan ...