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.

Three-year project to remove Russian Olives began this week What was once distributed freely for ornamental landscaping is now the target of an aggressive three-year project that aims to remove the ...

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 young tree.

Among the targets of an ambitious noxious weeds and invasive species removal project underway in the Taos Valley is one of ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Parker Heinlein’s recent article on a government program to cut down Russian olive trees on a ...

"Yes, Russian olive is very much an invasive species, be we have to put it in perspective," Moon said. "We have to consider the environment and the financial costs." Until recently, state and federal ...

The one good thing about the spread of invasive Russian olive is that removing them can be plenty of fun. Once planted for windbreaks and erosion control, Russian olive is increasingly looked upon by ...

Debbie Oleson has declared war on Russian olive trees on her 500-acre ranch on the Blackfoot River. She’s on a crusade to eliminate Russian olives on 230 acres of their private land. And she’d like to ...

It's time to smell the roses. But did you get a whiff of the Russian Olive? They bloomed last week, and were gone. Such a short shift of fragrance from those tiny tubular, bell shaped yellow blossoms.

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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 ...