Owls visit your yard for food. They stick around for sleeping, nesting, and hunting purposes, if the conditions are right.

Snowfall in the White Mountains is reliable enough to keep the slopes busy from late fall through early spring. The resort is popular with Phoenix and Tucson locals who want a ski trip without the ...

Prescott sits in the mountains where the air stays cool and the pine trees reach high. This town served as Arizona’s first territorial capital, and that important past shows everywhere. Courthouse ...

Oregon keeps some of its best secrets in the most unexpected places, and Fort Rock State Natural Area is proof that the state ...

Pennsylvania’s Pine Grove Furnace State Park offers a mountain lake ideal for swimming, hiking, and enjoying peaceful nature.

Many people are surprised to find out that winter is a prime time for birding. There are opportunities for beginner and experienced birders to spot our year-round resident birds as well as ...

Emily Fairfax went from Carleton College to the Los Alamos National Laboratory to a self-described “beaver spiral.” ...

Members of the Sac State community noticed two fledgling great horned owls resting in trees near Placer Hall. Great horned owls are common in California, and this is not the first sighting on campus.

So when the 154,000-acre Sand to Snow National Monument was designated, encircling the western and northern edges of Desert ...

Simply called "the Big Cypress" by Gladesmen and older folks in south Florida, the national preserve was established in 1974.

The Guy Fleming Trail at Torrey Pines delivers sweeping Pacific views, rare pines, and wildflowers on one of California’s easiest coastal loops.

Wondering how to maintain a healthy lawn? Remove an old tree stump, neaten your garden and help keep pests at bay with our step-by-step guide ...