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 ...

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A bill designed to thin out or eliminate juniper trees from potentially thousands of acres in rural parts of Central and Eastern Oregon is making its way through the state Legislature. House Bill 3135 ...

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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 ...

On Durango’s South Side this January, a juniper tree came crashing down from its great height one morning, splitting into three main sections across the yard. Longtime resident Andrea Dalla awoke to ...

Bend homebuilders are urging the city to remove juniper trees from its list of protected species under the city’s tree code, reasoning that keeping junipers will increase the cost of new homes while ...