Long considered an opportunistic water hog capable of overtaking ecosystems and bedeviling landowners, the juniper tree has redeeming qualities that are just now being more widely recognized. Turns ...

Biomass gasification is being considered as a possible technology for converting at least 10 million acres of Texas brush into biofuel, according to Dr. Jim Ansley, Texas AgriLife Research rangeland ...

Byrne Miyamoto is finished with juniper. At least he wants to be. For the past three years, the Oregon State University graduate research assistant has been hauling juniper from Eastern Oregon and ...

Oregon State University scientists have concluded an exhaustive series of tests on western juniper lumber and opened the door to commercial wood markets for an invasive tree that has spread widely ...

Like much of the high desert landscape across central and Eastern Oregon, the community of Ritter in rural Grant County is dealing with a scourge of unwanted Western juniper trees, crowding out native ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon State University professor is looking to expand demand for juniper wood, an invasive yet native species that's expensive to process and that builders know little about ...

Lance Romine, 50, has been building homes and structures with Western juniper for about 20 years in Prineville through his company Line Shack Log Structures LLC. “There is an endless supply of it,” he ...

The environmentalist and advisor to Drax power station, Tony Juniper, says the wood used to create energy can be coppice thinnings and waste material Last week, a group of respected scientists wrote ...

Biomass gasification is being considered as a possible technology for converting at least 10 million acres of Texas brush into biofuel, according to a rangeland ecologist. Biomass gasification is ...