The Interior Department on Friday finalized its updated Western Solar Plan, potentially opening 31.7 million acres of federal ...

Winter interest refers to plants which enhance the winter landscape by remaining above the snowline.   They add both visual and nutritional value.   In Archuleta County, not many ...

Kayla Malone, “professional weed woman” and eight-year Chaffee County Weed Control Department supervisor, was recognized Dec.

Montana’s agriculture sector has always been vulnerable to changes in climate, and generations of farmers and ranchers have proven their ability to adjust and prosper as conditions demand.

Tucked within federal land management plans is a two-year grazing rest period on lands leased to ranchers after wildfires.

A transdisciplinary team is working together to see if targeting sheep grazing could reduce Cheatgrass in highly infested ...

“Fire abatement is a weed management tool; it’s not a solution,” said Gloria Montero of Weed Warriors. She explained that ...

To make matters worse, many landscapes are threatened by invasive cheatgrass that burns easily and regrows faster after fires ...

Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...

Deep genome sequencing and comprehensive phenotyping of 294 samples of hexaploid sweet potato identify genomic loci with an increase in the number of copies of alleles that enhance the expression ...

And grazers also eat native plants that take longer to establish. But there are caveats to some of the evidence used to underpin arguments for a two-year break. A 2016 study documented increased ...

Fire can clear underbrush and dead plant material. It can provide new growth for deer, elk and cattle to feed on. There is also evidence, however, that grazing after wildfires can increase soil ...