That’s what I heard from my kids every time I stopped to admire the beauty, graceful form and, of course, shade of a tree. I love trees. So, when the city of Palm Desert designed phase two of its San ...

PHOENIX – The tiny seedling was brought over from Eastern Europe and parts of Asia nearly 200 years ago and planted along riverbanks across the United States, mostly in the Southwest, to prevent ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) -You may have noticed brown trees that were bright green a few weeks ago. These are Tamarisk trees, or salt cedars. Tamarisk is an invasive plant from Asia and the ...

Landowners and managers in southwest Kansas are invited to a free workshop and field demonstration focused on the management and removal of tamarisk, also known as saltcedar. The workshop is March 19, ...

Patience is a virtue, and many trees require it. "Trees, in general, live on a much longer timeline than we do, with many living for hundreds, and some even thousands of years," says Nancy Gaspari, an ...

Tamarisk trees, those green bushy plants seen along waterways, have been turning brown across the county thanks to a special beetle used to control the invasive species. Ben Bloodworth, Tamarisk ...

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Firefighters responded to a fire in a stretch of tamarisk trees in Rancho Mirage on Saturday afternoon, according to Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire. The vegetation fire was in a 100-by-30 foot area at ...

A fire broke out in the vegetation near Interstate 10 in Palm Desert on Friday around 7:00 p.m. Tamarisk trees and underbrush smoldered and flamed up along Tamarisk Row Drive, in the area running ...