The car shimmies over rocks and ruts on a U.S. Forest Service dirt road along the Sonora Pass. Amid the splendor of autumn in the mountains, my car rarely gets above 10 mph. This is the way to the ...
On the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management's Magnificent Trees Registry, it’s listed simply as “Tree 4126.” But the enormous alligator juniper has a history that transcends its drab ...
CALIENTE, Nev. — When Varlin Higbee eyes the scrubby forest of pinyon pines and juniper trees that fill the high desert outside this old Union Pacific Railroad town, there’s just one thought that ...
Firefighters use drip torches to ignite slash piles during a prescribed burn. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management plans prescribed burns of juniper in areas around Baker and Malheur counties between ...