It was not the crops but the native plants that sustained the lives of these pioneers in the ... Dyer's woad was introduced as a plant to make dye and is one of northern Utah's most serious ...

Southern Utah wood rats have genetically adapted to eat the toxic leaves of the desert-hardy creosote bush, also native to ...

LOGAN, Utah — The bright yellow flowers blooming in northern Utah may look pretty to those strolling around the state, but they worry weed scientists. "It’s pretty hard to enjoy even the ...

Volunteers plant a row of native plants at Utah Lake on Monday, April 22, 2024. A freshly planted plug of Nebraska sedge pokes up from the soil around Utah Lake on Monday, April 22, 2024.

Utah is the second driest state in the nation, and we are currently in an extreme drought situation. Loveland Living Planet Aquarium will be celebrating the first "Water Conservation Weekend ...

Wetlands managers have spent years using fire and chemicals to fight phragmites, an invasive reed that chokes everything else out. But coaxing beneficial native plants to move back in is difficult.

The native slough sedge was functionally extinct in Utah when Blake Wellard found a tiny patch of the tall, green wetland plant along a stretch of the Weber River in Coalville. The sedge had hung ...

Northern sea oats (also known as river oats), is an ornamental grass that offers quite a display year-round, but particularly during the winter season. The grass grows in clumps two to three feet ...