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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.
Juniper trees and shrubs are valuable for many reasons, such as long-term land rehabilitation projects and the prevention of soil erosion. Common juniper provides important cover and browses for ...
WILLIAMS — Drying juniper berries litter the ground as Rusine Stanley plunges a water hose into empty tanks in her backyard. As bubbles begin to gurgle, each tank fills to the brim. “I didn ...
Juniper is a broad genus that includes everything from large trees up to 30 feet tall to ground-hugging shrubs that spread ...
Creeping juniper, Juniperus horizontalis, is a low-growing evergreen plant native to North America, found throughout much of ...
More than twice the number of juniper seedlings sprout in mistletoe-rich patches than in mistletoe-free ones, report van Ommeren and Thomas G. Whitham of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.
Late last fall, about 20 federal scientists toured southeastern Utah, prodding sickly and dead juniper trees, peeling back bark, snapping off branches and digging the dirt around root collars in ...
Many homeowners have been startled this spring by strange growths on juniper trees, sprouting orange tentacles like miniature sea anemones. The orange growths are nothing new, according to Sharon Y… ...
DEAR NEIL: I have property near Garner State Park. Several juniper trees there are turning brown. I suspect it might be juniper budworm. They are important shade trees for me, ...
Removing juniper trees from the western side of Deschutes County, where groundwater levels are deep and the volcanic rock is permeable, may not conserve much water at all, he said.
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 ...