Big Bend National Park in Texas offers lots of great spots for outdoor recreation, including this trail that hiking ...

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Desert bighorn sheep once again roam the heights of the Franklin Mountains overlooking El Paso and the Borderlands. A herd of nearly 80 bighorn sheep were released for the first time as part of ...

At long last, the desert bighorn sheep return home to the Franklin Mountains – a site that may be critical to the animal’s future survival. Beginning Wednesday, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ...

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths of ...

“For many years, we were the best kept secret people didn't know about,” says Tammy Martin, executive director of Friends of the Desert Mountains. “But that has changed a lot in the last few years.

EPA will announce the opening of the Office of Mountains, Deserts and Plains today to focus on issues in the West. Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the new office would counter the “one-size-fits-all ...

The sun rises over Encinitas on a hot morning. REUTERS/Mike Blake/file photo Inland San Diego County was expected to experience the hottest weather of the season Friday through Monday, while sea ...