OROVILLE — A plant with pretty yellow blooms in the spring has been banned in Butte County. Scotch, Spanish or French broom, has long been a thorn in the side of those concerned about fire safety. The ...

As we move into Orange County’s drought-dry fall, most wild plants have long since folded up for the season – but wait. Out amid the scrub that grows on fans of flood-wash below the mountains, one ...

First, I want to thank the dedicated volunteers behind the Broom Eradication and Education Project. These people are putting on work boots and work gloves to sweat through half of their Saturdays ...

Lots of people are wondering what to do about some of their garden plants that have been bent over by the heavy snow we got in December. My general recommendation is to wait because the plant will ...

ZAYANTE >> A super bloom of 20,000 French broom plants is on the verge of casting more than 150 million seeds across the sandhills habitat of the Olympia Watershed. In order to minimize the impact of ...

After a year's work at the broom plant, Mireximu's family shook off poverty last year. "We bought our first refrigerator and washing machine last year," he said. Entrepreneurship has spread beyond the ...