The moist, high mountain meadows inhabited by this unassuming bluegrass are Southern California's lifeblood, and protecting them would seem to be common sense. By shrinking the area of protected land, ...

A year-round resident of New Mexico's high mountain meadows, the highly imperiled Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly relies wholly on the integrity of its remarkably limited range. This ...

In this lawless land, tensions don’t just run high between the white colonizers ... a group of settlers in a tragedy known as ...

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 ...