Many of the features at Petrified Forest are on a scale best appreciated by leaving the car. Plan enough time to walk among the fossil logs and Painted Desert badlands. For a half-day visit ...

The reserve hosts various ecological units, not only tugay lowland forests, but also steppe and semi-desert areas and their various ecotones where many stenoeceous species of flora are found. The ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...

the desert cloud forest. These mountains are crucial to the existence of the forest, acting as a barrier that captures moisture-laden clouds from the Indian Ocean during the monsoon season ...

Forest Service says it will follow USDA order, but veteran San Bernardino forest manager says they know it can't be done.

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