Nestled among the pinyon pine, juniper and sagebrush on a rugged dirt road near the Utah-Nevada border are the last two cabins of the historic Gold Springs Townsite. The structures ...

In a quiet corner of Ashton Gardens, where magic hides behind every tree and wonder lives around every bend, tiny doors open ...

Aspen forests help slow the spread of wildfires and could serve as fire breaks in Colorado and other southwestern states, ...

The Mount Naomi Wilderness and Tony Grove Recreation Area have been collectively recognized as Utah’s second old-growth ...

When I started writing for Wild About Utah, I made myself a promise that each piece would be a journey of learning. This ...

Scientists believe the famed ‘Methuselah tree’ was alive before the foundation of the Roman Empire and the building of the ...

Matt Harris, a forest fire researcher at Western and lead-author of the study, says that two decades of data on fires across ...

Nine months later, what was a barren, black-and-white landscape is now bursting with new life, a vibrant green beginning to cover the charred evidence of the fire. The response is exciting, U.S.

The quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is one of Colorado’s most iconic trees and maybe its most dramatic. With smooth white ...

In early springtime in the Mojave Desert, Joshua trees provide one of the few foods available to many of the wildlife species ...

Thousands of years ago, a desert-hardy plant, now quintessentially Southern Utahn, moved from what is now northern New Mexico across the Mojave Desert. And a native species of rodent genetically ...

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