When you imagine an old western film, a tumbleweed or two blowing around in the background might come to mind. Many people associate tumbleweeds with an American desert landscape, but these ...

Tumbleweed is one of the most iconic symbols of the old American West, made famous in hundreds of movies. But this invasive plant did not actually reach US shores until the latter part of the 19th ...

That’s what 27 volunteers gathered to do last November at the Manzanar National Historic Site in California’s Mojave Desert. The volunteers arrived to find 3 acres of tumbleweed that the National Park ...