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Ski Cooper and the surrounding Pando Valley hold a special value to the descendants of the 10th Mountain Division. This is why each year, a group of descendants, friends and active duty 10th Mountain Division...

Ski Cooper and the surrounding Pando Valley hold a special value to the descendants of the 10th Mountain Division. This is why each year, a group of descendants, friends and active duty 10th Mountain Division...

It was a pleasant fall day in November 1940 when Gen. George C. Marshall signed off on what would become the 10th Mountain Division of the U.S. Army. It was a momentous decision that, unknown at...

Throughout humankind’s long history of manipulating the landscape, one universal truth persists — rivers flow. And as they flow, they shape the land. It’s a reciprocal agreement, where the river constantly carves and deposits, and...

Mark Twain may or may not have actually said it first — “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting!” — but even if he didn’t, the high-altitude wetlands, ancient fens, and mountain meadows of...

Mark Twain may or may not have actually said it first — “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting!” — but even if he didn’t, the high-altitude wetlands, ancient fens, and mountain meadows of...

In 1906, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt established the country’s first national monument, Devils Tower in Wyoming. Last month, the Biden administration…

Unlike at the national parks, with their glossy brochures and comprehensive websites, visitor information for the monuments is patchier. To help with planning, we created mini-guides based on suggestions from the federal agencies caring for the monuments, as well as conservation groups that are rejoicing over the designation.

A guide to Avi Kwa Ame, a sacred Native American site in Nevada and Castner Range, a former Army training base teeming with wildlife in Texas, both of which were established by the Biden administration last month, and the Camp Hale-Continental Divide in Colorado, which the president designated in October.

It’s almost impossible for a Southern Californian to imagine a desert landscape without twisty, spiky Yucca brevifola on the horizon.