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

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 ...

Ibe Liebenberg is a seasonal California firefighter who grew up in Paradise. In his essay, he describes the rebirth he has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Old West image Tourists, especially those from overseas ... What you might not expect are ponderosa pines, aspens and fir trees. Yet they all exist in the 92,000-acre park that straddles Tucson like ...

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

The older stands are blue magenta. Everything that’s younger is yellows or oranges or light greens. You can color it any way ...