An interesting tree of our Rolling Plains region is endemic to Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and has close relatives occurring as far north in the Great Plains as Minnesota and eastern North Dakota.

Dead trees line the Salt Creek and Platte River near Mahoney State Park in June 2025. Horticulturists with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission were stumped when they started seeing significant ...

For years, states like Nebraska have been suffering from increased drought conditions. Those conditions are having devastating effects on some of the region's most well-known trees. Harvest Public ...

It’s Colorado tradition for folks to head to mountains and national forests for their Christmas trees around this time of year. But for some others? Well, they look no further than their own backyard ...

Trees are often seen as a symbol of environmental recovery, but in the Great Plains, their spread is disrupting a much older ecosystem. Grasslands that evolved without dense tree cover are being ...