Purple false brome (Brachypodium distachyon) and ripgut brome (Bromus diandrus), widespread non-native annual grasses ... the results from the California grasslands with other types of ecosystems.

Between 1990 and 2020, there was a 51% increase in the area around Phoenix where homes and wildlands meet, raising wildfire ...

Whether or not logging would solve the wildfire problem is contentious. Many U.S. forests are considered to be at high ...

On an average night in Multnomah County, about 60,000 birds fly over the state, making their way to nests and breeding ...

The 100th meridian marks a dividing line between moist climates to the east and arid climates to the west. Climatologists now ...

They truck water in, but it’s expensive. And each day, they turn on that tap and wonder if they’ll run out before the next ...

The U.S. housing industry has generally opposed timber tariffs because of their detrimental effect on housing affordability. ...

according to the most recent annual report on the basin. The California Department of Water Resources considers the basin “critically overdrafted,” and residential property owners with dry ...

Abaie and her neighbors worried that many of the region’s wildland firefighting resources were sent to California ... of our deserts to invasive annual grasslands,” said Andrea Thode ...

California’s diverse landscapes ... scientists have documented that reestablished native grasslands recover from drought more quickly than exotic annual grasslands, maintaining green forage for ...