Ancient oak trees rise above gigantic boulders scattered across a high desert mesa in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest. This ...

By the mid-1900s, ranchers and hunters had exterminated these felines, largely because they were seen — like many other wild predators — as a threat to cattle. Jaguars do occasionally kill cows, ...

Beneath this biologically rich landscape, home to a variety of dry-land species including the endangered hedgehog cacti and ...

The Verde Valley outside Sedona, which has a Mediterranean-like climate, is ideal for growing “big jammy reds” like Merlot, ...

Beneath this biologically rich landscape, home to a variety of dry-land species including the endangered hedgehog cacti and the ocelot wildcat, lies a rich deposit of copper, the conductive metal ...

A common backyard bird you will see this summer are blue jays. Although they are known for their aggressive bullying behavior ...

Our list of the best botanic gardens in Southern California spans Santa Barbara to San Diego and includes gardens everyone ...

The author learned there are elk—and a lot of them—in West Texas. He also learned there is at least one man there he should ...

Scopes monkey trial famously put the spotlight on evolution and appeared to mark a defeat for biblical fundamentalism.

New Gutta Percha Tree. Instigated by ... Another is a small oak (Quercus grisea), found in the mountains of Western Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Arizona, and westward to the Colorado desert ...