Juniper shrubs are getting a second look as homeowners search for carefree greenery with year-round appeal. These plants have long been a landscape staple, especially as an evergreen foundation plant, ...

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 ...

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 ...

EAGLE COUNTY – We often associate junipers as being trees and shrubs that are used for hot, dry areas. Rocky Mountain juniper, the tree, dots the landscape from one end of the county to the other.

Although we’re puzzled by Wallace Steven’s enigmatic poem, “The Snowman,” we love the wintry images. We’re happy simply to “regard the frost and the boughs of the pine-trees crusted with snow …and to ...

BOISE — Western Juniper trees spreading across rangeland could be turned into a livestock feed ingredient, nutritionist Travis Whitney told the Idaho House Resources and Conservation Committee on ...

The juniper tree produces berries with medicinal and culinary properties that are widely used to flavor food, flush the urinary tract, clear lungs—and clean surfaces. Aside from an 850 year-old ...

RENO, Nev. – Pinyon-juniper woodlands host unique wildlife and wildlife habitat, as well as areas for hiking and outdoor recreation. They are also part of a web of healthy ecosystems that, together, ...