Laura Comeaux’s rubber boots squelched in the mire as she trekked through her family land, 128 acres of intermittently flooding forest situated on a sharp bend in the Mississippi River. Morning light ...

Swallow Falls State Park, in western Maryland, has the cascading Youghiogheny River, the state’s tallest waterfall, old-growth hemlocks, hiking paths and cross-country ski trails. It’s a popular ...

Deep in the sloughs behind Don Ristroph's family farm, cypress have towered over surrounding trees, high grass and crop rows for centuries, and, he says, in one or two cases, perhaps half of a ...

A narrow bridge across St. Joseph Creek within the Maple Grove Forest Preserve has seen better days. DuPage County Forest Preserve President Daniel Hebreard is well acquainted with the pedestrian ...

The California Coastal Commission approved the replacement of the Lagunitas Creek Bridge on Highway 1 this week — on one condition. The commission specified that before the California Department of ...