This column begins a group of articles that will appear roughly once per month on plants commonly found in Bingham County. Today we’ll jump right into the deep end and examine one of the County’s more ...

Colorado nurseries will be prohibited from selling Russian olives and several lesser-known ornamental varieties to in-state customers beginning Jan. 1. In anticipation of the ban, most area nurseries ...

Mountain Studies Institute and Southwest Conservation Corps continue to wage war against the Russian olive, an invasive species that chokes out native trees and degrades the quality of the watershed.

Bingham County ranchers, farmers, and land managers face a difficult problem. Their challenge is controlling Russian olive, a fast-growing tree native to Eurasia. This tree tolerates a wide range of ...

Mountain Studies Institute has turned its latest effort to combat the invasive Russian olive plant into an educational opportunity and a way to help people in need. Southwest Colorado organizations, ...

We have a huge Russian olive tree in our backyard. No one has ever said specifically to us that we need to get rid of it, but I have heard people talking about them being a noxious plant or something.

More than 100 years ago, when Mack Cole's grandfather sank his family's roots on the banks of the Yellowstone River, cottonwoods - descendants of those that Capt. William Clark saw on his voyage of ...

Seventeen acres of Russian olive trees in Two Moon Park by the Yellowstone River are slated for removal starting next week. The invasive, fast-growing tree replaces native cottonwood and willows and ...

In this time-lapse, we document the full process of planting a Russian-olive tree from a single pit to sprout and grow into a ...

Karen Scopel doesn’t hate weeds. She’s been known to make salad out of purslane to showcase the benefits and uses of common garden weeds. She has no beef with natural weeds growing among the grasses ...

POCATELLO — Before proposing to his wife, Emma, Ike Sutherland went to his favorite fishing hole along the Portneuf River and cut a half-inch bough from a Russian olive tree. He tied a bell to the end ...

LOVELAND - The state of Colorado is being invaded and Front Range Community College instructor Jim Choun is one teacher leading the fight. "A combination of conservation, education, service learning, ...