(Phys.org)—Some high mountain meadows in the Pacific Northwest are declining rapidly due to climate change, a study suggests, as reduced snowpacks, longer growing seasons and other factors allow trees ...

When I stepped into a Sierra Nevada meadow over 25 years ago, I was struck by the diversity of life, the hub of biological activity — full of birds, frogs, fish and plants. As a wildlife ecologist, I ...

This summer, a key restoration project is underway to improve California’s water supply, which depends on the High Sierra ...

More than a hundred Arkansans were killed on Sept. 11, 1857, in what is known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. In early 1857, a wagon train left Northwest Arkansas and headed west, bound for ...

Mountain Meadows. Courtesy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an aggressive self-defense against the Mormon Church's many ...

Dianna Gencarelli vividly remembers the day she found out about Mountain Meadows Massacre. She was 13 years old and standing in the kitchen asking her grandmother about her family. Her grandmother ...

Ecologists evaluated the successes of mountain meadow restorations by analyzing eight years of bird data collected by field biologists. The authors concluded that, when ''pond and plug'' and similar ...