For the first time in decades, tribes in the Pacific Northwest will be able to forage for wild huckleberries in a national ...

Yamhill County Master Gardeners and OSU Spring into Gardening: 8:45 a.m.-4 p.m. Sign up for gardening classes on flowers, ...

As sovereign nations, Native Americans have been able to protect land, water and air, including well beyond their own ...

And thanks to the Cowiche Canyon Conservancy, an area once deemed “absolutely worthless” has become one of the Valley’s ...

Rhododendrons, our state flower, are shade-loving plants that bloom in the spring beneath the native fir and cedar ... But the iconic sword ferns of the Northwest thrive in the dry shade under ...

Ephemerals are unusual plants that love early spring weather: cool and a bit wet. They bring color and otherworldly flowers to shadier corners. They tend to hug the ground plane, avoiding the cold, ...

“All the Italian grown chicory have a super young story, less than a hundred years,” said plant breeder Andrea ... the climate of the Pacific Northwest — comparable to Italy’s Veneto ...

Mounting scientific evidence indicates that native plants provide a far more complete set of vital services to our ecosystems ...

From jams and ice cream to syrups and lotions, huckleberries are a fruit that can be found in all sorts of Pacific Northwest ... and harvested by Native people in the Northwest since time immemorial.

The Academy of Natural Sciences has safeguarded 222 pressed plants since the 19th century, with plans to display specimens in ...

Washington state needs lithium to meet the demand for electric vehicles and renewable energy. But mines add to a legacy of pollution.

As for our spring bloom, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources says the wildflower bloom season is slightly behind.