Don't mess with mama elk. Or her little elky, either. A short distance from one of the most popular destinations in the Redwood Empire, the Fern Canyon Trail at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, ...

A bull elk raises his massive head to the evening sky and lets out a high-pitched bugle. The last notes trail off, as if from an unearthly flute, sounding so musical that it makes me shiver. Soon a ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The elkhorn fern (Platycerium bifurcatum) is a large bracket epiphyte. An epiphyte is a plant that grows on other plants and rocks rather than ...

VAIL – Cole Claassen was happy to pick up an award for best children’s film for his feature “Fern Hill” at the recent Tiburon Film Festival in California – even if he was puzzled by the choice of ...