ALBUQUERQUE – Good news for pine nut lovers. Not so good for allergy sufferers. A five-year inventory of New Mexico’s forested lands shows positive growth rates among the state’s most important piñon ...
Scientists have identified the oldest tree in Europe—a small common juniper (Juniperus communis L.) growing in Finnish ...
Old-growth juniper trees are a symbol of the American West. Their ancient and gnarled trunks and branches twist into haunting shapes immortalized in photos by Ansel Adams. East of Bend, in the Oregon ...
On the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management's Magnificent Trees Registry, it’s listed simply as “Tree 4126.” But the enormous alligator juniper has a history that transcends its drab ...
Scientists still have new leaves to turn over when it comes to understanding tree mechanics, as demonstrated by a recent study from Los Alamos National Laboratory, which found some plants may react ...
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 ...
Go out into the Badlands east of Bend and you could find a juniper tree believed to be more than 1,500 years old. Junipers can be hearty survivors, with taproots that plunge deep into the Earth ...