They might be pretty, but you don't want tamarisk trees on your property. Here's everything to know about the unique quality ...

The tamarisk is degrading the rarest of habitats in the desert southwest - the wetlands. Salt cedar invades springs, ditches, and streambanks. The tree has taken over more than 1 million acres of ...

And it often nests in tamarisk trees. UNR's Tom Dudley and his fellow researchers on Monday submitted a request for $800,000 of Clark County funding for monitoring of tamarisk removal efforts over ...

Tamarisk trees were brought here in the early 1900s. They grow tall, dense and fast and thrive in hot, arid climates. For those reasons, they once seemed like the perfect wind break, ...

One trip, he says, these trees dripped with beetles. Whether that’s a good thing depends on whom you ask. These Old World beetles were imported and released in the early 2000s as a biological control ...

The trees already are notorious for burning hot and black, and beetle predation would provide more fuel. Ben Bloodworth works with Rivers Edge West, formerly the Tamarisk Coalition, which has been ...

The tamarisk tree (tamarix chinensis) is native to Central Asia and the Mediterranean. It was introduced to the Western United States in the early twentieth century for use as an ornamental, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado ” Chinese beetles are being enlisted to fight an invasive tree species that is choking stream banks across the West. Officials looked to the ladybug-sized beetles when they ...

The insects' ravenous appetite for tamarisk trees, the invasive plant the bug was brought in to control, is drying up miles of vegetation, which experts fear will fuel future wildfires.

This tamarisk tree fire in Indio is causing smoke to hang heavy over the entire Coachella Valley. A lot of coughing and red eyes around. Fire officials say fire expected to last 3-5 days more; ...