Deep under the desert sand of southeastern New Mexico, a giant room waits in the dark. Carlsbad Caverns National Park hides hundreds of caves below the Guadalupe Mountains, including one cave with rooms big enough to fit football fields inside. Long before flashlights and elevators, people climbed down on ropes to see what was there,…
Pando (Utah) looks like a forest. It breathes like a forest. In autumn, it blazes with gold like thousands of trees turning color all at once. But Pando is not a forest at all. It is a single tree — one enormous, ancient organism spreading across 106 acres in central Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. It…
Few names from the American West spark as much debate as George Armstrong Custer in Montana. To some, he was a daring Civil War hero who rose quickly through the ranks. To others, he was a reckless commander whose decisions led to disaster at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. His life touched some of…
