Far from the hustle and bustle of Sin City lies a shady picnic spot with essential amenities for the ideal mountain-desert ...

If you live in the foothills, you probably have Gambel oak, aka scrub oak (Quercus gambelii), in your landscape. This native tree has some great attributes and some big management challenges.

A tribe of goats is making lunch out of Gambel oak stands in a subdivision northeast of Durango – and helping the community reduce its wildfire risk along the way. Edgemont Highlands, a 430-home ...

Urbina said the new oak will grow back from the sprouts that are only a few inches tall right now, but the burned parts of the tree won’t leaf out again. The Coal Seam Fire, which started June 8, was ...

“When Gambel oak turns its maximum red, that crimson-blood red, and it backlights, it’s just outrageous,” he says. Even more so, he says, in those rare frames that blend it with shiny aspen ...

Gambel oak is a primary target for fire crews – the goal is to thin oak in places where a fire would easily spread or where it serves as a barrier to fire crews trying to respond to a fire.

Along with isolated aspen groves, you’ll find gambel oak, sumac, velvet ash, boxelder and bigtooth maple across the Mogollon Rim and in places like Oak Creek Canyon in Sedona and the Pinal ...

The mighty oak tree is seen by many of us as a sign of strength and fortitude. As a transplant from the Great Lakes region, that’s certainly how I think of them. Burr oak, red oak, white oak and pin ...

Foresters with the state forest service say their main target is Gambel Oak. “There are other shrubs in the area, but it is predominantly gambel oak. The oak can burn really hot, ...

But a drought this summer might delay the peak by a few weeks, giving visitors a little more time to catch the oranges of Gambel oak, yellows of New Mexico locust and those gleaming aspens.

The rustling from a grove of gambel oak sounds too loud to be the wind on the sparse leaves still hanging onto the late November branches high in Ophir Canyon.

Our elk camp is located in an aspen forest licking down into Gambel oak brush, and every year I notice that the land is drier and hotter. Aspens are not doing well. The mature trees are dead or ...