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 ...

The Brothers Grimm would not have a bestseller on their hands if they tried to publish a collection of their stories in this sensitive era. Abuse, murder, cannibalism? In a children’s story? Well, we ...

Pinyon-juniper woodlands are a common sight in much of Utah. But pinyon trees are declining, while junipers are expanding.

This time of year, national forests in Colorado open up portions of the land for harvesting Christmas trees. But one conservation group in southern Colorado is encouraging something a little different ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

A bill designed to thin out or eliminate juniper trees from potentially thousands of acres in rural parts of Central and Eastern Oregon is making its way through the state Legislature. House Bill 3135 ...