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 ...

Taylor juniper surrounded by other green trees in a field - Amanda McCann/Shutterstock Taylor juniper (Juniperus virginiana 'Taylor') trees almost feel tailor-made for all the awkward places plaguing ...

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 ...

Monday brought the highest cedar pollen count of the month, and the plumes of pollen are expected to linger for several more ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bend homebuilders are urging the city to remove juniper trees from its list of protected species under the city’s tree code, reasoning that keeping junipers will increase the cost of new homes while ...

A Lombardy Poplar in Riverton and a Utah Juniper in Fremont County are the newest Wyoming State Champion Trees. The two trees ...

When Varlin Higbee eyes the scrubby forest of pinyon pines and juniper trees that fill the high desert outside this old Union Pacific Railroad town, there's just one thought that crosses his mind: ...