Wildfires can burn and spread differently depending on what vegetation they burn. The two fires in northern Arizona have ...

Holy Cross Wilderness photo by John Fielder. Twice a year I have a story appear in the Vail Daily after it’s been out for a while in the pages of their glossy Vail Valley Magazine. The Internet, like ...

Environmental regulators have launched an investigation into a heavily trafficked lake below the Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River Range, with an Enterococci reading 384 times the safety ...

That’s Shawnee National Forest for you—a sprawling 289,000-acre paradise tucked away in southern Illinois near Herod that somehow remains one of America’s most underrated natural wonders.

Millions of dollars in federal funding have been released to continue restoring lands and streams in the fire-scarred Upper Colorado River Basin watershed in and around Grand Lake and Rocky Mountain ...

Wyoming hosted a plethora of parades, rodeos, races and fireworks to celebrate Independence Day. Some opted to escape the noise.

The temperatures are warming up and so is the fishing around the Big Horn Basin. Opening day for the North Fork of the ...

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

Scott Fitzwilliams didn’t expect to last 16 years as supervisor of the White River National Forest that surrounds Vail and ...

As the Fourth of July approaches, local and state agencies are urging the public to celebrate safely—especially in fire-prone ...

The Bitterroot National Forest moves to high fire danger.Officials caution against human-caused wildfires and prohibits pyrotechnics on Forest Service lands.

The shocking acts of violence committed against the city of Coeur d’Alene and its first responders on Sunday afternoon sent shockwaves across the nation. In neighboring Shoshone County, elected ...