U.S. Forest Service geologist Gordon Grant calls it a “geologic gift.” University of Oregon earth scientist Leif Karlstrom described it as “a big water tower” at the top of the mountains. The two ...

GREEN RIVER, Utah (KUTV) — A man detailed his encounter with a bighorn sheep stranded in an icy river in remote Utah. Michael Nordenstrom was out for a solo ride on his mountain bike west of ...

The Palisades fire has burned almost 24,000 acres through the Pacific Palisades and into the Santa Monica Mountains. The burn area covers several popular hiking spots, including Temescal Canyon ...

“It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the mountains, like a big water tower,” UO’s Leif Karlstrom, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement. “That ...

Twenty-three adult California bighorn sheep were recently captured and outfitted with active collars that will help to monitor and assess bighorn populations at the Hart Mountain National Antelope ...

Hart Mountain manager Josh Loew, center, and heavy equipment operator Sam Damuth, left, monitor the ewe before the veterinarian gets a tonsil swab. Once completed, the GPS collar can be placed on ...

The newly mapped aquifer lies beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Cascades, acting like a giant, continental-sized lake stored in the mountains ... our understanding of the region’s ...

In January, Colorado Parks and Wildlife began an operation to capture 20 Rampart Bighorn Sheep to start ... said the sheep will be relocated to the mountains southwest of Pueblo to start a new ...

Researchers are revealing the secrets of 6,000-year-old pine forests, preserved in ice patches in the Beartooth Mountains. These ice forests are ... if they hadn't been preserved in ice.” Bison and ...

A former Sublette County Sheriff says an ATF raid on a couple in Big Horn, Wyoming, mirrors a 2002 incident in ... Especially in the sparsely populated Mountain West, ATF field offices have small ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) biologists are working on establishing a new Bighorn sheep herd in the mountains southwest of Pueblo. According to CPW ...