Rose Houk

On October 14, a wide swath of the western U.S. will experience a solar eclipse. At its peak, the path of the eclipse will cross right through the Four Corners region of the Colorado Plateau.

A book published in 2019 called Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way: Cooking with Tall Woman, highlights Navajo culinary and farming practices over the course of two decades through the research of anthropologist Charlotte Frisbie.

Fire and strong winds can be a destructive and deadly combination in the forest. Extreme heat and turbulence can create fire whirls and fire tornadoes. Just like wind tornadoes, fire tornadoes leave destruction in their wake—trees uprooted, power poles snapped, and roofs blown off.

Golden eagles are protected by federal law, but a new preserve north of Flagstaff adds another layer of conservation.

The coronavirus pandemic has led to an explosion of recreational use on public lands across the Southwest. Land managers have been overwhelmed by the…

A team of botanists with the Arboretum at Flagstaff just finished a two-year survey of three rare plant species found at Capitol Reef National Park in…

Across the country, iconic signs mark the trails, campgrounds and other features on nearly 200 million acres of land managed by the U.S. Forest…

There’s a new conservation plan for springsnails in Nevada and Utah. It’s aimed at protecting these strictly aquatic snails that depend entirely on…

Douglas-fir trees are a well known fixture in the Pacific Northwest; their common name honors Scottish botanist David Douglas who collected seeds in…

There are a lot of ways to go solar, including joining a solar co-op. The basic idea is that there’s power – and financial incentive – in numbers.…