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 ...

Writer: Adam Russell, 903-834-6191, [email protected] Contact: Dr. Kevin Ong, 979-845-8000, [email protected] COLLEGE STATION – It’s been a tough 2017 so far for juniper and cypress varieties used ...

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 ...

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 gardening season is in full swing and if you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and ...

This Aug. 15 photo shows a juniper tree cut down as part of a giant project to remove junipers encroaching on sagebrush habitat needed by imperiled sage grouse in southwestern Idaho. The ...

Editor's note: The story has been updated to reflect Wednesday's Texas House vote to advance HB 2239. The sole survivor of a grove of 14 trees planted half a millennia ago, Treaty Oak was historically ...