The last time a President deployed the National Guard to a state over the objections of the governor was in 1965, when LBJ sent them to protect Civil Rights marchers in Selma in defiance of Alabama ...

The scenic highway slicing through the alpine wilderness of Glacier National Park is expected to fully open to traffic on Monday, park officials announced.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate added a mandate to the budget bill to sell enormous swaths of public land managed by the Forest ...

Urban and suburban landscapes, often a sea of buildings and lawns, can create “deserts” for native insects, birds, and furry ...

On a two-day expedition down one of California’s most spectacular—and thrilling—waterways, David Amsden and his family try ...

Thousands of U.S. Forest Service workers across the country were fired or left their jobs as part of the federal downsizing.

An experiment involving artificial organs is just one way researchers are trying to capitalize on the weird ways low-gravity ...

Our National Parks columnist took an ‘Alone’-inspired course. These are the four wildest National Parks where he's putting ...

The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

When hummers contract fungal infections, their tongues swell and become difficult to retract. That can put them at risk of ...

The Carroll Creek gate on Fairy Lake Road will be accessible, but the upper segment of Fairy Lake Road remains closed.

A plant hunter strolled through Death Valley National Park on his day off. Then he found a flower he didn’t recognize.