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 ...

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, ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Twin Falls man says he’s lucky an 81-year-old tree narrowly missed his house in Rock Creek Canyon when the giant Russian olive toppled last weekend. Jay Tschannen came home from work Saturday to ...