The oldest tree species is the Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva). The oldest tree of the species is named Methuselah and is more than 4,800 years old. The longevity of the Great Basin ...

The Great Basin includes most of Nevada, the western half of Utah, part of eastern California, and southeastern Oregon. It is named the “Great Basin” because none of the water within it drains out to ...

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62 Parks Traveler started with a simple goal: to visit every U.S. national park in one year. Avid backpacker and public-lands nerd Emily Pennington saved up, built out a tiny van to travel and live in ...

For a number of reasons, I tend to steer clear of national parks. Take Yosemite, for example: While the place is undeniably one of a kind, a trip to one of the national forests or wilderness areas ...

I sped across a golden basin full of sagebrush and edged by hillsides spotted with pinyon and juniper trees. We were at mile 135 of a 400-mile drive across Nevada’s high desert to Great Basin National ...

A swath of the western United States stretching from Nevada and Utah into Montana and Wyoming faces the threat of scattered ...

A new assessment from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) indicates that geothermal energy resources in the Great Basin region — spanning Nevada and parts of California, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah ...

I’m standing on the shores of Summer Lake, or, to be more accurate, what used to be a lakeshore but is now a dry lakebed in Oregon’s high desert. I’m here with a group of writers, scientists and ...

BAKER — When the time came to open the dome for the first time at Great Basin National Park’s new observatory, astronomer Tyler Nordgren knew just where to point the telescope. In the constellation ...