The brightest six stars in this nebula form a little dipper standing with its handle straight up. This is the same star pattern as the Pleiade…
This year marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most spectacular conservation victories in recent history: the defeat of a massive gold min…
We are all immigrants in this country; even Native Americans are immigrants. In the Americas and around the world there have been over 20,000…
“While other children were sent to daycare, when I was 3 years old I was sent to a Japanese-American prison,” Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker, now 82…
Fall leaves revealing bare trees means New Mexico is now fast approaching its winter season, but the administrators with Carson National Fores…
“Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roamWhere the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heard a discouraging wordAnd the skies are not c…
New Mexico’s skiing history is among the oldest in the American West, with prospectors in the late 1800s and early 1900s trying out their “lon…
What did we learn this summer and fall? We learned that people who’d been cooped up, thanks to COVID-19, flocked to our national parks and for…
The history of Taos is written in symbols and rock forms on the land, and you can read that history if you know where to look. A Bureau of Lan…
“I can’t believe that person is getting that close.” Just off the road stands a bull elk — a 700-pound animal with three-foot tall antlers — a…
It is not an exaggeration to say that New Mexico's Chaco Culture National Historical Park is under siege. A surge of oil and gas development t…
If you’re one of those people who composts everything you can think of because you want to build up your garden soil, you might — like me this…
The Pleistocene epoch that began 2.6 million years ago sent ice in waves through Yosemite. Glaciers gouged out great valleys along the Merced …
Longtime Taoseños will remember that many years ago there was a simple log bridge that crossed the Red River, connecting the Cebolla Mesa Trai…
Fire in the West is expected, and not so long ago it seemed something the West experienced more than anywhere else. Nationally, big fires were…
This summer, three of us were hiking in Alaska's Western Brooks Range when we encountered a pack of eight wolves. We were far from any help wh…
It feels like an apocalypse in the Southwest -- wildfires, floods, drought, heat, smoke. This was not the norm when I moved to Colorado 35 yea…
Fire in the West is expected, and not so long ago it seemed something the West experienced more than anywhere else. Nationally, big fires were…
This summer, three of us were hiking in Alaska's Western Brooks Range when we encountered a pack of eight wolves. We were far from any help wh…
It feels like an apocalypse in the Southwest -- wildfires, floods, drought, heat, smoke. This was not the norm when I moved to Colorado 35 yea…
Poor Butte County, California, again on fire, its smoke choking the air of states miles away.Nestled in the Northern Sierras, Butte County is …
Now that Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs and Spa has reopened on a limited basis following a devastating structure fire last year, more people ma…
For almost 60 years the Santa Fe Trail between Missouri and Santa Fe was a primary route for traders, gold seekers and the military. Few women…
Gold Hill was one of my goals because of the wildflowers that bloom there in the height of summer and the views of mountain tops all around, i…
COLUMN / Hikers are flooding our public lands, so I ask the question: Why can't people just leave the poor rocks alone?
