At night, visitors can enjoy exceptionally dark skies and excellent astronomy programs. Great Basin is home to some of the oldest living organisms in the world — bristlecone pines. These gnarled, ...

Dotting the vast, arid expanses of the Great Basin and Mojave deserts are precious springs housing ... in fact help make life possible for countless other species sharing their desert-oasis homes, ...

This resident of the desert Southwest likes open habitats, and it will readily come into yards that have a few native trees and shrubs such as mesquites, acacias or palo verdes. It feeds mostly on ...