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 ...

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 ...

From crusts and dust to nuts and chains to climate and cattle, grad student aims to fill gaps in knowledge of vast and important woodlands Ecosystems dominated by species of piñon and juniper, a ...

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 ...

A recent study by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists shows that increased water availability can make some types of plants significantly less responsive to subsequent drought conditions than ...

Two previous waves of pinyon-juniper deforestation have swept the Great Basin. A third wave is underway. These forests naturally cloak the regions’ arid mountains and slopes. Explorer journals, Mining ...

Pinyon-juniper forests are hearty, drought-tolerant and ubiquitous across the West. But climate change has put immense stress ...

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 ...

The federal government is overseeing a program of massive deforestation on Western public lands. Some 7.4 million acres of pinyon-juniper forest in the care of the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada, ...

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 ...