He said the value varies greatly by beach, but the average in California is about $67 per person per day. Estimates project ...

Want to spend a beautiful night camping out under the desert sky? Visit this California destination that's free of crowds and ...

ASHLAND, Ore.— In response to a petition and lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the sand dune phacelia as a threatened species under the ...

Death Valley’s temporary lake, fed by one powerful summer storm, is down to inches as it dwindles in the park’s Badwater Basin. But as it evaporates, other parts of the national park are reopening. In ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— Following a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to protect the sand dune phacelia as threatened under the Endangered ...

“You look out over the rolling dunes, and there’s this feeling of peace and challenge,” says Matt Valantine, a dentist from St. George, Utah. “I don’t know if it’s the color, the expanse, or what it ...

When he built a stripped down, candy-colored car mounted on four large wheels to surf the sand on California beaches in 1963, Bruce Meyers could scarcely have imagined his “dune buggy” would become ...

The disappearing Colton dunes, found only in the Inland Empire, get a helping hand from the community. Originally stretching 40 square miles from Ontario to Colton, the rare Colton dunes are rapidly ...