There are over 280 state parks in the Golden State—from Anza-Borrego Desert State Park to Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, these ...

California wolves are on the comeback. And no matter how hard wildlife officials try to direct them toward their natural prey ...

The challenge is to find forests with both strong climate-growth relationships and trees over a century old — substantially ...

California is a land of striking geographic contrasts—towering mountains rise alongside lush forests, while deserts brush up against fertile agricultural valleys. You can carve through snow on ...

California's snowpack has hit a 25-year milestone, reaching 96 percent of the historical average. The accumulation of snow in the Sierra ... drier conditions in the forest earlier in the spring ...

In far Northern California, beneath a towering mountain ridge still covered in April snow, one of the state's last cowboys ...

In the last nine months, I’ve fortified lands against the threat of forest fires, led a team through prescribed burns in snowy national ... was in Northern California, where we dug hand lines ...

UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.

With the spring wildfire season is underway, two men were arrested this week after a house was torched and grass fires lit ...

with high risks of concerning conflagrations even for areas that had adequate rain and snow this winter. California’s fire season typically starts up in May as grasses dry out, and this year ...

It's a precarious time in Alberta's wildfire season, when a warm and/or windy day could lead to flames spreading out of ...