Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Saltcedar is one of several common names for an invasive non-native tree that ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado ” Chinese beetles are being enlisted to fight an invasive tree species that is choking stream banks across the West. Officials looked to the ladybug-sized beetles when they ...

More than 150 years after a small Eurasian tree named tamarisk or saltcedar started taking over river banks throughout the US Southwest, saltcedar leaf beetles were unleashed to defoliate the exotic ...

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A large vegetation fire involving tamarisk trees that started Monday night near Interstate 10 in Indio is expected to continue smoldering for the next few days and drifting smoke will be visible from ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) -You may have noticed brown trees that were bright green a few weeks ago. These are Tamarisk trees, or salt cedars. Tamarisk is an invasive plant from Asia and the ...