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.

On a recent afternoon in his home garage, Andrew Bishop leaned over his latest creation, an end table made out of a Russian olive tree, and sanded the piece one last time. He rubbed the gritty paper ...

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 ...

The idea for Russian olive pieces didn’t come until late last year. That’s when Bishop decided he wanted to make furniture with wood from his family’s farm, situated 30 miles east of Brady in ...

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, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... WESTMINSTER — For 17 years, Westminster has launched an offensive against the Russian olive tree — an invasive species that chokes out native cottonwoods and ...

BILLINGS — Ralph Torrence likes starting from scratch. When he built his own home 49 years ago, he and his wife, Karen, quarried their own stone for the fireplace, alternating stone from Lavina with ...

What may be her most enduring legacy is research on the Russian olive population that she says has become a forest along the banks of the Little Bighorn River as it flows north through the Crow ...

The idea for Russian olive pieces didn’t come until late last year. That’s when Bishop decided he wanted to make furniture with wood from his family’s farm, situated 30 miles east of Brady in ...