The City of Flagstaff is inviting the community to attend an open house on the John Wesley Powell (JWP) Area Specific Plan on Wednesday, May 14, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Aquaplex (1702 ...

Arizona’s giant natural wonder reliably strikes awe, whether tackled from inside or above.

A new assessment from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) indicates that geothermal energy in the Great Basin of Nevada and ...

Stegner’s response, which he said later was written in a single afternoon, was an off-the-cuff riff on why he cared about ...

Thanks to the power of writer Wallace Stegner, Americans have for decades been able to put words to the importance wilderness ...

“Even John Wesley Powell’s expedition was geological and funded by the federal government.” Nobody involved in modern Western science had thought to peruse the canyon’s botany, she adde ...

John Wesley Powell must have projected competence to the men who followed him. He had lost an arm to a gunshot wound in the Battle of Shiloh. Even modern-day river running asks a lot of a person ...

He was also the first after John Wesley Powell to navigate the water from Green River, Utah, through the Grand Canyon while conducting a railroad survey. A civil engineer with a mining background ...

Some have said I wasn’t there. When a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell made the first known descent through the Grand Canyon in 1869, from the Green River Station in Wyoming ...

Few creatures are as beautiful as the butterfly, but they're slowly disappearing along with other insects, and it's going to ...