Fewer wildfires burn in North American forests today than in previous centuries, increasing the risk of more severe wildfires ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient whitebark pine trees preserved for almost 6,000 years in Wyoming's Rocky Mountains. This ...

A new Colorado State University study of the interior U.S. West has found that tree ranges are generally contracting in ...

A hunt for mountain lions along the Gila River in New Mexico led the hunter, Charles Elliott, and his guide on a chase ...

The trees revealed by the melting Rocky Mountain ice patch look "like trees that you would see up in a windswept area," McWethy said — missing their bark but otherwise pristine. Until now ...

During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation above ... of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center in Bozeman, and his colleagues recently ...

I have been photographing high up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. This portion of the Rockies has a lot of peaks over 10,000 feet and even some over 14,000. At these heights it is ...

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