Yosemite National Park employees who recently were fired by the U.S. government worry cuts will affect the experience of ...

Calif. mountain towns are surrounded by public lands. They're already dealing with the fallout of cuts to the U.S. Forest ...

A group of young researchers captured and photographed the animal on a three-day expedition to the Eastern Sierra Nevada Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent High up in the Sierra Nevada, the tiny ...

This 1,000-plus-acre park is a protected wildlife area near the Alhambra and features modest trails leading to ruins and vistas of both Granada and the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Nevada is known for its desert bighorn sheep — the official state animal — and the desert tortoise ... well as the granitic composition of the Sierra Nevada. Red symbolizes the red rock ...

The East Bay Municipal Utility District is closing boat launches at its reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada foothills to protect the public water system from a highly invasive golden mussel, before it ...

After more than twenty years without any sightings, the Mount Lyell shrew, a small and elusive mammal, has finally been captured in images by passionate students. This discovery marks a ...

Wildlife authorities scrutinized the tracks ... Image via Deposiphotos Overall, in the heart of the Sierra Nevada, the reemergence of a vibrant gray wolf pack has ignited a sense of hope and ...

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By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a San Francisco-based reporter on The Times’s weather team. The Sierra Nevada finally got a big snowfall this week in a winter that has so far been marked by warm ...

Two ski patrollers were caught in an avalanche Friday after heavy snowfall from a recent atmospheric river triggered a slide on Lincoln Mountain in California’s Sierra Nevada. According to ...

The Boone and Crockett Club of Missoula, Montana, has partnered with the Nevada Department of Wildlife to expand Shiras moose ...