In its second year at its new location in Northern Arizona’s blissful Playa Ponderosa, Desert Hearts Festival proved yet ...

Forest health advocates have finalized an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service that will preserve tens of thousands of the ...

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

The ponderosa pine had taken root decades before the Revolutionary War, making a stately stand on this western Sierra Nevada slope for some 300 years, Nate Stephenson figures.

Before the 1950s, ponderosa pines blanketed about 250,000 acres of the Pine Ridge. In the ensuing decades, fires consumed large swaths. Last year took the biggest toll.

Grand Canyon Lodge had a limestone façade and used massive ponderosa pine trees to hold up a sloped roof capable of ...