http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 12. http://www.hcn.org/wotr/thinking-green-in-the-midst-of-winter Ari LeVaux fights the wintertime blues by curling up with a pile of lavishly illustrated seed catalogs and dreaming of next spring’s garden. No publisher Ari LeVaux Plants Planting Ari LeVaux Food Fresh produce Gardeners Seed catalogs Gardens 2010-02-05T09:31:47Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15777 The writer advises: Be a patriot; get your hands dirty No publisher Allen Best Plants 2010-02-05T09:47:40Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15529 Only God can make a tree, but anyone can ruin a prairie. No publisher Ted Williams Plants Ecosystems Deserts 2010-02-05T09:46:33Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15426 The writer drives from Oregon to Death Valley to experience its once-in-a-lifetime wildflower bonanza No publisher Pepper Trail Plants Ecosystems Death Valley wildflowers Deserts 2010-02-05T09:45:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15927 Ethnobotanist Kat Anderson’s new book, Tending the Wild, examines the way California’s native peoples used – and shaped – the landscape’s natural resources before Europeans invasion No publisher Mark R. Stromberg Plants Indian Culture Kat Anderson Tending the Wild ethnobotany Indian tribes Native Americans crops gardening Indian foods Native culture 2010-02-05T08:31:50Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/229/11305 Lani Lamming of Wyoming leases goats to conscientious landowners who have discovered the benefits of organic weed control. No publisher Ed Marston Plants Livestock Ranching 2010-02-05T08:54:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/224/11165 Shielded in anonymity, the "King Clone," a creosote bush identified as the "oldest living thing on Earth," can be found on a dirt road south of Barstow, Calif., where it continues to keep a low profile about the many benefits of its properties. No publisher Matt Weiser Plants Ecosystems Deserts 2010-02-05T08:52:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16470 It’s not easy to wean Westerners away from their lush, traditional, turfgrass lawns, but with drought an increasing fact of life, Xeriscape gardening is finally catching on No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Water Plants Deserts Lawns bluegrass turf Chris Martin horticulture Arizona State University Polytechnic campus Williams Air Force Base drought Phoenix rainfall gardening suburbia backyards Sonoran Desert cactus communities landscaping aesthetics Ted Steinb 2011-12-08T23:34:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/303/15687 Environmentalists and ORV groups accuse the BLM of dragging its feet over implementing a plan to protect an endangered flower in California’s Clear Creek Management Area No publisher Patrick Farrell Plants Endangered Species BLM Clear Creek Management Area California George Hill Hollister field office BlueRibbon Coalition California Native Plant Society Don Amador endangered plants Endangered Species Act off-road vehicles San Benito evening primrose 2012-04-09T19:12:10Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/298/15525 It took a while, but the writer eventually came to see the strange, harsh beauty of the gnarled old pinon and juniper trees in Canyon Country No publisher Joshua Zaffos Plants Ecosystems Canyon country desert ecosystems pinon pines junipers Dinosaur National Monument Green River Colorado River Zion National Park aesthetics trees hiking Deserts 2012-03-30T22:18:28Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/341/16862 The rapid spread of invasive species like quagga and zebra mussels could transform the once-isolated and ecologically unique West into just another McDonaldized patch of the planet. No publisher Paul Larmer Chinese elms A ecology Homogocene olives West Nile virus Plague of Rats and Rubbervines Russian cheatgrass Plants Biodiversity Exotics Science exotic species biotas global economy Invasive species quagga mussel biological diversity zebra mussel Invasive grasses Yvonne Baskin knapweed 2010-08-17T23:03:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/334/16680 Increasingly, Western cities are planting trees to save energy as well as provide beauty No publisher Fletcher Jacobs cities and Res killer trees Denver Los Forest Service Ronald Reagan Antonio Villaraigosa Sacramento Albuquerque forestry Efficiency carbon sequestration Land Use and Planning Plants Center for Urban Forest trees Angeles tree-planting energy efficiency Energy Greg McPherson Urban forests 2010-09-14T22:11:49Z News Article