Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. An annual reforestation project to plant more ...

Q: We have pine trees on our street that are 20-plus years old and 50 feet tall. We obviously want to ensure their survival as we try to conserve water. Approximately how many gallons of water would ...

Q: We have 14-year-old pine trees with large water berms under them for collecting water. The inside of these berms are full of pine needles that I hoped would help hold moisture but they do not ...

Shadow Creek golf course in North Las Vegas, Nevada, features 100 acres of naturalized areas comprised of tall grasses and more than 6,000 planted pine trees. The irrigation system in these ...

Question: I have a four-foot pomegranate tree that I’ve had for four years. Amazingly, the first year I had about a dozen fruit that were quite good. In years two and three, the fruit was limited, the ...

Climate change exposes ecosystems to strong and rapid changes in their environmental boundary conditions mainly due to the altered temperature and precipitation patterns. It is still poorly understood ...

Pine weevils (Hylobius abietis) are a major threat to the successful establishment of conifer seedlings, particularly in boreal and temperate forests. Their feeding on the basal parts of emerging ...

Emerson Elementary Assistant Principal Adam Shaffer distributes white pine seedlings to excited fourth-graders Wednesday in the gym. The seedlings were provided by the Parkersburg Tree Commission.