It’s called Pima Prickly Park — and it’s an ideal place to see prickly plants at their colorful best in May. The 7.4-acre park, at 3500 W. River Road, is a wonderland of cacti and desert trees that ...

Plains prickly pear cactus lobes burst up from the dry, yellow-sand earth like unkempt ears. A wide, shallow hole under a cacti patch provides evidence that an animal was recently here, but the only ...

Along a two-lane road northwest of Helena, the Gehring ranch’s red barn stood quiet and picturesque. In the valley ran the irrigation ditch where Bill Gehring found a pistol this summer, old and ...

This cactus is back on Long Wharf. Some (not all) phragmites are on their way out. David Reher had an explanation. p(clear). Reher (pictured) offered some 15 people a ...

Connecticut and the Trust for Public Land have reached an agreement to purchase a 1,000 property in the Connecticut River Valley to be used for preservation. The property, called The Preserve, is home ...

The Lewis and Clark County Commission agreed this week to purchase a $324,000, 507-acre conservation easement that includes no public access, despite an angler’s last call to make it accessible. John ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The prickly pear cactus is a landscape staple here in Texas, officially declared the state plant back in the 1990s. It’s a charismatic part of the Southwest terrain and serves as home ...