Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joshua trees and other desert plants have a fresh dusting of snow in Joshua Tree, Calif., Feb. 23, 2023. The U.S. Fish and ...

Residents have said they feel "extremely angry" after a council voted unanimously to protect a controversial oak tree. Winchester City Council received an intention to fell the more than 40-year-old ...

A Los Angeles federal judge ruled against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to deny Endangered Species Act protections for the Joshua tree. The judge determined the USFWS failed to ...

Sidestepping a thorny, long-running controversy, California officials have proposed a new Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act, legislation that could streamline permitting for new housing, renewable ...

The Whittier Conservancy has filed a lawsuit objecting to the city of Whittier’s elimination of its Parkway Tree Manual, it announced Thursday, weeks after losing its case alleging the city failed to ...

Atlanta is known as the "City in the Forest," but, largely due to ongoing development, the canopy is shrinking. While the city recently amended its tree protection ordinance to increase fees for ...

A Wilmington construction site has cleared most trees, leaving only small, fenced-off "tree protection areas." Wilmington's Land Development Code requires these protected zones to prevent disturbance ...

ATLANTA — "The City in the Forest" is looking to better preserve it with a new tree protection ordinance. The city currently follows an ordinance written in 2001. Tree advocate deLille Anthony is ...