For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for ...

I love walking in the woods in springtime. Flowers begin to line the trail in late February, and by the first of April, only ...

In most forests, a visitor’s eye is trained on what can be reached. The trunk can be measured. The leaves can be plucked. A specimen can be pressed, labeled, and filed away. Yet the largest share of ...

A botanist collecting seeds from Death Valley sage is part of a broader federal effort to bank native plant genetics for long ...

It’s not enough to say, ‘The forest is important,’ especially nowadays. You have to give reasons why, and biodiversity is a way to communicate to the broader community about why an area needs to be ...

Throughout human history, wine, the fermented juice of the genus Vitus, has been many things to many people. From St. Peter’s Basilica to Skid Row, wine has been used to sanctify, celebrate and ...