Some species across the world are known only from museum specimens. Sadly, for some, the information we know from the museums is the only information we will ever have, but for others the museum ...

Climate change is affecting the hydrology of high-elevation mountain ecosystems, with implications for ecosystem functioning and water availability to downstream consumers. To quantify the water ...

Subalpine larkspur forms large and dense populations in the West Elk and San Juan mountains in July and August. These are large plants with towers, or racemes, of deep blue to purple flowers that ...

The wetlands found across the Rocky Mountains of Colorado just below tree line are magical places. Dripping with mosses and deep green sedges, these open expanses flanked by evergreens are a ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

A stand of whitebark pine dwarfed by the nearly 10,000-foot Dick's Peak in California's Sierra Nevada. (Courthouse News photo / Matthew Renda) They can survive winds of 100 miles an hour and hundreds ...