The altitude between 4,000 and 6,000 feet is classified as mid-montane, roughly between Tahoe and Yosemite. Cooler climate means a shorter growing season. Soil ranges from rocky to clayey, so some ...

Feeling a little stuck with your landscape ... A snow-covered pine forest in the heart of winter conveys a sense of calm and ...

With popular destinations like Yellowstone and Zion hit hard by staffing cuts, nearby state parks offer beauty and majesty ...

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An icy winter has transformed the tall trees of the Zao mountain range into wonderous snow sculptures ... and strolling through the frosty landscape. Skiers and snowboarders slowed their descents ...

Winter took note of the new month, and, after a pause to ring in the new year, swept through several mountain communities near Los Angeles, leaving snow in ... a lovely landscape of frost and ...

The snowfall, which has continued for the past three days, has ended the prolonged dry spell, covering the mountains, trees, ...

Trees reflected ... at the Hindsaeter Mountain Hotel to the west of Rondane. We were now more squarely in Munch territory than in Sohlberg’s, but the surrounding landscape had served as a ...

Most visitors come to the alps in winter, when snow blankets these mountains and these ... creating a savannah landscape. “All these now dead trees we see around us are no longer carbon sinks ...

A bicyclist passes through a dusting of snow in Denver's City Park in Oct. 2006 as the fall leaves, like those from this maple, still color the landscape ... trees, like Sloan’s Lake, Rocky ...