'TIS THE SEASON... for spooky yard displays. Creepy flying saucers made from paper plates dangle from oak trees and webs made of crepe paper dangle from porches and monstrous figures, full of crumbled ...

Mono Lake is just east of the Sierra Nevada Range near the small town of Lee Vining, California, the eastern gateway to Yosemite National Park. Seeing it is a uniquely Western experience, and summer ...

ON high ground just above the Teme Valley sits Eastham, a small settlement which still retains its traditional form. There is a church, rectory, manor house and a farm all clustered together in a ...

Like many Bay Area residents, I’ve spent plenty of time on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada. But my husband and I recently took the plunge behind the “Granite Curtain,” dropping five miles and ...

A few years ago, I attended a program by Eugene Hattori at the Nevada State Museum about the incredibly old petroglyphs that were carved into the tufa coating on boulders in the Winnemucca Lake area.

Many of the big saline lakes of the Americas are on the brink of collapse due to climate change and water diversions. Mono lake’s survival is due to the scientists, activists, and locals who have ...