Tropical moisture, swept into the Desert Southwest by Tropical Depression Ivo (now off the Baja Peninsula), has been caught in the Southwest...
Tropical moisture, swept into the Desert Southwest by Tropical Depression Ivo (now off the Baja Peninsula), has been caught in the Southwest...
During the Wisconsin Glaciation, the last glacial period of the Pleistocene Epoch, a large lake covered most of northwest Nevada, extending ...
Unlike strata from the other Paleozoic Periods, Cambrian rock exposures are relatively rare throughout the United States. Deposited from 54...
Greater sage grouse, the largest grouse in North America, inhabit sage grasslands of the Intermountain West, from Colorado to the Columbia P...
While crossing the stormy Plains yesterday afternoon, I encountered a small flock of long-billed curlews, attempting to fly into the teeth o...
Cousin to the glossy ibis of the Southeastern U.S., the white-faced ibis winters along the Gulf Coast (from Louisiana to Texas), in valley w...
Mono Lake is a 70 square-mile saline lake at the eastern foot of the Sierra Nevada Range, approximately 13 miles east of Yosemite National P...
Harney Basin is a geologic and topographic basin in southeast Oregon; while it sits adjacent to the northwest corner of the Great Basin, it ...
Defined by its hydrology, the Great Basin is a large area of the American West within which the rivers and streams drain from an irregular r...
The Owens River of southeast California rises along the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, at the southeast edge of Yosemite Nati...
The ringtail, named for its bushy, banded tail, is a small, nocturnal omnivore of the western U.S. and northern Mexico. Extremely agile, th...
Famous for deep powder that attracts skiers from across the globe, the Wasatch Front of Utah is about to unleash its bounty on those who liv...
Just west of the Utah line, U.S. 50 crosses the Snake Range of east-central Nevada, among the highest mountain ranges in the Great Basin; in...
Fifteen million years ago, during the Miocene Period, an uplift of the Intermountain West began. This geologic process continued into the P...
The Great Basin of western North America stretches from the crest of the Sierra Nevada to the summit of the Wasatch Plateau and from souther...
The cool, wet climate of the Pleistocene produced a series of large lakes in the Great Basin of the American West. The last of these was La...