In this vlog Bob Roney and Jennifer Jacobs explore Yosemite National park's flora and ultimately find a blooming Mountain Lady's Slipper...

Back in April of 2001, researchers watched with surprise as a dust cloud swept off the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, across the Pacific Ocean,...

Dangerous snake? It sure is - if you are a nestling bird, small mammal, or lizard. If you are a human being, it is mostly harmless. The...

"When I was an undergraduate student, my professor told me a story about three hunters, out here in the coast range, being found dead,...

I was six-years-old in 1955 when my parents took the family to Holy Jim’s Canyon, in Southern California. In those days it was a...

Echoes of Yosemite’s past reverberate among the trees and headstones of the Yosemite Cemetery. For American Indians, the origins of these...

Winter conditions, including frequent frost and icy pavement, prevail in the Merced Canyon along Highway 140. And yet, at this time of...

​The Steller’s jay is one of the more common birds Yosemite visitors see. It has beautiful blue feathers that aren’t blue at all--that...

The territorial "tuke, tuke, tuke" of a gray squirrel reverberates throughout the oak woodlands in Yosemite as the afternoon light slants...