My husband asks what I plan to do with my placenta. It is spring, and we have been unexpectedly gifted some elk meat. He removes all the contents of our freezer to make room for portions of another ...

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 ...

First thing to know about mountain cedar: they technically aren’t cedar trees at all. What we call “cedar trees” are a type of juniper tree -- specifically Ashe juniper -- named after William Willard ...

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 ...

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 ...

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