When USDA botanist Arthur Barclay collected a sample of bark from the Pacific yew tree in Washington State in 1962, he had no way of knowing that the sample would yield one of the most important ...

BENEATH those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould’ring heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. It is the loveliest ...

On Feb. 3, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game reported two elk calves had dropped dead in the Warm Springs part of Ketchum, Idaho. They join 19 other elk from Mapleton, Utah as the latest victims ...

Yew trees and shrubs (Taxus) are among the most versatile of conifers. These slow-growing, long-lived evergreens are drought-tolerant, pest-free and amazingly easy to prune. Most have dark green ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Understanding the ecological mechanisms that allow a species to transition from an occasional understory component to the dominant type in the ...

Botanists in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province has successfully cultivated yew trees, which have grown on the earth for about 2.5 million years. The success makes it possible to increase the ...

Two moose calves were found dead in Silverthorne last month, and a toxicologist says they were poisoned by yew trees. Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed that necropsy results showed that the two ...