From our friends at OSU Extension comes this timely and informative missive about Scotch broom -- that pretty but obnoxiously persistent shrub. Check it out. Although admired for its yellow blooms, ...

What: A noxious weed that invades disturbed and natural settings, displacing native species. The plants can live more than 50 years and are prolific seed producers. Cost to state: $47 million a year ...

Highly invasive, problematic for reforestation and a fire and allergy hazard, Scotch broom is an unwelcome guest in the Olympic Peninsula landscape — and it’s back. The Clallam County Noxious Weed ...

REEDSPORT -- The plant may not have any super powers like Marvel Comics's Green Goblin, but for now Scotch broom remains a nemesis of landowners on the Oregon coast. With this in mind, Highland ...

Volunteer Jeff Roehm uses loppers to snip a Scotch broom stem at North Coast Land Conservancy's Reed Ranch Habitat Reserve in May 2016. May is “Broom-Buster Month” on the Oregon Coast. Each May staff ...

Countless studies and reports exist describing how a landscape is impacted after logging Douglas-fir: What is the impact on the soil? Should one leave the debris in place? Pile it? Burn it or haul it ...

Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) is a perennial shrub native to northern Africa and parts of Europe. It was introduced into the U.S. in the 1850s as an ornamental, later it was used for erosion ...

REEDSPORT -- The plant may not have any super powers like Marvel Comics's Green Goblin, but for now Scotch broom remains a nemesis of landowners on the Oregon coast. With this in mind, Highland ...

For seven years, a group of volunteers has been battling an invasion of Scotch broom along Kuebler Boulevard SE. In that time, they've cleared away nearly three miles of the noxious weed, from Skyline ...

MEDFORD, Ore. – In a case of invader versus invader, a European insect spreading south in Oregon has given botanists and others hope of turning the tide against Scotch broom, a European shrub that ...

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