Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona is a breathtaking landscape filled with colorful badlands, ancient fossils, and ...

“(The authority) has allowed Arizona to become the producer of nearly a quarter of the U.S. timber production,” Torres said.

As official research positions are lost to budget cuts, the work of citizen scientists to preserve federal forests is ...

At the Desert Botanical Garden, researchers can request plants that have been catalogued over 80 years to understand genetic changes.

Torres said without these partnerships to preserve and rehabilitate the forest lands in northern Arizona, metro Phoenix would feel detrimental effects. “A lot of the logging here goes down to ...