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Or, you can simply head to a parking lot. Take, for instance, the now-empty parking lot at the former Costco in Bend, where ...

Planting pine trees was seen as a valuable option for farmers back in the day. In 1925, this was “strikingly proved” by a ...

Sliding and bifold doors have their place, but for an effortlessly, timeless look, French doors could be the way forward ...

Salt cedar, or tamarisk, is found along waterways ... roadsides and rangelands. Red brome is a highly invasive species native to Europe that has become one of the most problematic invasive grasses ...

But then I visited Hinohara, a village on Tokyo Prefecture’s western edge ... on a brilliant show of changing leaves in colors of red, yellow and orange, interspersed with green evergreens.

Larger wood chips or bark nuggets (composted or non-composted) work well in this area up to 3 inches in depth. Materials to Avoid Do not use hazardous mulches like shredded western red cedar ("gorilla ...

Some chaparral shrubs have flammable characteristics such as small fine leaves, lots of litter, and peeling bark. Fires in chaparral are usually ... and sugar pines occur along with white fir, incense ...