In parts of California and much of the Great Basin, land owners have declared war on pinyon pines and juniper trees, clearing them from rangelands with chains, bulldozers, saws and herbicides.

California has the largest number of individuals of the five conifer genera. Let’s take a look at these magnificent specimens and where they grow. A juniper in Tuolumne County is the world’s ...

Fire season has begun with a bang in California, where more than a dozen wildfires have ignited since Saturday — the largest of which are in Riverside ...

Some of the Southwest’s most iconic desert trees are running for their lives in what could be a grim harbinger for more temperate ecosystems across the West. A study in Functional Ecology off… ...

Identification of fossil juniper seeds from Rancho La Brea (California, USA): drought and extirpation in the Late Pleistocene. New Phytologist , 2024; DOI: 10.1111/nph.20324 Cite This Page : ...