The remains of an ancient forest have been discovered in a popular hiking area of the Rocky Mountains. Surrounded by backcountry hiking trails, the Beartooth plateau is a frozen tundra that sits ...

Melting alpine ice in the Rocky Mountains has led to the discovery of a 5,900-year-old whitebark pine forest. Over 30 trees are estimated to have been found by scientists during an archaeological ...

What happens when you combine basalt outcroppings, dramatic valleys, and jagged plateaus across 1.4 million acres of land? A national forest like no other.

You seriously cannot beat it. You’ll see three alpine lakes (Lake Louise, Mirror Lake and Lake Agnes), visit two historic, hike-in-only teahouses, and hike to the glacier that feeds Lake Louise.

"But in areas between 2,000 and 2,500 metres, the risk increases, and in high alpine regions, we see a clear link between the rise in hazards and human-induced climate change." ...

Sports Outdoors Wallowa mountains trek adds to ‘mosaic of alpine beauty’ Mon., Sept. 12, 2022 1 of 2 ...

The contribution of roads to forest fragmentation has not been adequately analyzed. We quantified fragmentation due to roads in a 30,213-ha section of the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest in ...