Reno researcher Robert Shriver sheds new light on what is happening in pinyon-juniper woodlands across the West. The research is unique, in that it looks at both tree mortality, as well as recruitment ...

At lower elevations, juniper sapling numbers were historically controlled by periodic fire. But conditions on Central Oregon’s High Desert changed over the past 150 years with the arrival of ...

In a New Mexico woodland dominated by pinyon pine and juniper trees, researchers found far fewer tree seedlings in noisy sites than they did in quiet ones. The study raises questions about the ...