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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...