Frozen in time, today that wood is beautiful. And so, as Parker explains, rangers occasionally see visitors trying to smuggle a piece home as a souvenir.

Visitors — the story went — were swiping a ton of petrified wood a month, 12 tons a year. Before long, according to the stories, the park would be barren. Maybe it already was in places.

During the 1920s, petrified wood was so common in the area that it sold for as little as $5 a truckload, explained Mary G. Saltarelli of Granbury, who is writing a master’s thesis on Glen Rose ...

Because petrified wood is so often found in the West, it's quite surprising to many people that the Eastern U.S. is home to just two petrified forests in New York and Mississippi, making the ...

Our state’s grove of titanic trees, at least their petrified remains, stands in Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, about 35 miles west of Colorado Springs off U.S. 24.

Petrified oak from Stinking Water, Oregon. The inset is a photomicrograph of the remarkable anatomical detail preserved in these specimens. The lines and arrows indicate the growth rings and the ...