Photographer Brian Kelley travels to every corner of state in search of the biggest, oldest, and most culturally or ...

Salt River Project, with aid from corporate, government and nonprofit partners, is thinning Arizona forests to prevent wildfires and save water.

PAYSON — When lightning ignited chaparral and ponderosa pine litter to form ... “We don’t cut any old growth,” Barton said. “We don’t cut big trees.” The goal is to make the forest ...

Writer and firefighter Ibe Liebenberg recalls his firefighting training and the ways it brought him closer to nature in Paradise, his hometown.

As 2025 began, the world watched the devastating fires in southern California. The fires spread rapidly over chaparral-covered hillsides under extremely dry conditions and Santa Ana winds. Thousands ...

I had lived in Paradise since I was 6 months old, only moving away for a few ... The steep hills were covered with 100-foot-tall ponderosa pine and black oak, and the understory densely matted ...

The Sisters area sits at the transition between geographical wonders, where lush Ponderosa pine and alpine forests ... off a period of robust population growth to what we see today.

The Boulder Mail Trail doesn’t sound exciting, but it offers some of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument’s very best views Follow an old pack horse trail that ... slickrock dotted with ...

Among my favorite games to play with my kids is estimating the age of enormous trees we spot in the woods, and then bestowing ...