From massive glaciers to sun-soaked beaches, national parks offer some of America’s wildest and most iconic landscapes.

Our fossil fuel-powered civilization is stoking wildfires. And we’re paying interest on a growing debt to nature in the ...

Most people know Yellowstone was the first national park. Ask what the second was and you may get shrugs, but it was Sequoia ...

There’s a place in California where trees older than Christianity stand like ancient sentinels, and somehow most Californians have no clue it exists. Calaveras Big Trees State Park in Arnold sits ...

This week's gardening column explains the best time for planting trees and shrubs (spoiler: don't wait!) and getting rid of ...

But leaving a tree in a pot, particularly the planet’s tallest, most awesome tree (no disrespect intended to our local oaks ...

The Garnet Fire has slowed, but its slow growth is still threatening the giant sequoia trees in the McKinley Grove, which are ...

Nestled at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Exeter, California might be the best-kept secret for retirees looking to stretch their Social Security dollars while still enjoying the ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the introduction of Wave petunias, and late summer or early fall is an excellent time ...

This state is home not only to one but three giant sequoia trees, despite the harsh winters and humid summers it experiences.

The Garnet Fire burns in the Sierra National Forest southeast of Shaver Lake along McKinley Grove Road, which had threatened ...

Firefighters with tree-climbing experience were being sent in to put out fires in the trees, some of which are 3,000 years ...