The fire that destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge was burning on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. Lightning started the Dragon Bravo Fire on July 4, 2025. The fire was burning in the ...

The White Sage and Dragon Bravo fires have burned a combined 24,000 acres, only miles apart from one another near the Grand ...

World Atlas calls 4 Mississippi lakes the most snake-infested in the state. Know how to ID venomous snakes and tell them ...

In fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. In the real world, they’re slow.

Each year, the Michigan Botanical Society (MBS) hosts an annual convention in a different place in the Great Lakes region.

Conemaugh Valley senior catcher Katie Ledwich was named to the Pennsylvania High School Softball Coaches Association Class 1A all-state first team for the fourth time Tuesday when the squads were ...

Our outdoor scribe’s summer hiking spots include the California Trail in Verdi—accessible to town and higher in elevation—plus some leafy walks right in Reno.

The trail to Lower Stevens Lake is surrounded by a thick wall of tall pine and fir trees. The ground is covered in verdant ...

A mountain pine beetle outbreak is on the rise in Black Forest and across the state. The Colorado State Forest Service is ...

One recent morning, trying to find the source of a warbler trill high in a white pine tree, I was rewarded with a brilliant flash of orange. It was my ...

A late March ice storm hit 12 counties in northern Michigan, downing or damaging three million acres of trees. The state's ...

An ice storm in late March damaged forests across a 12-county area in the northern part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.