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 ...

At night, visitors can enjoy exceptionally dark skies and excellent astronomy programs. Great Basin is home to some of the oldest living organisms in the world — bristlecone pines. These gnarled, ...

Dotting the vast, arid expanses of the Great Basin and Mojave deserts are precious springs housing ... in fact help make life possible for countless other species sharing their desert-oasis homes, ...

Great Basin National Park does not charge an entrance ... Most people have the impression that Nevada is nothing but a desert ...

Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels (1973-76) Great Basin Desert, Utah Concrete, steel, earth Overall ... [+] dimensions: 9 ft. 2-1/2 in. x 86 ft. x 53 ft. (2.8 x 26.2 x 16.2 m); length on the diagonal ...

Wildfires fuelled by “life-threatening” Santa Ana winds – warm, dry air formed in the Great Basin Desert of America’s southwest – are forcing the evacuation of over 100,000 residents in ...

With a history rooted in agriculture and ranching, it is no wonder the Great Basin Bull Sale is also part of Fallon's ...

Predicted probability of arsenic ≥5 μg/L in alluvial aquifers of the western Great Basin, including (a) mean probability of arsenic ≥5 μg/L, (b) 95% confidence upper bound, and (c ...