Every piece of wood found offers a window into the Earth a millions years ago. Walt Wright is the man who lives to find the pieces, examine them and tell you their age and their origin. Wright, a ...

LAS CRUCES - Herbert Zuhl, a local philanthropist and donor to New Mexico State University, died at age 97 on Feb. 12. Herb and his wife who passed away in 2016, Joan Zuhl, donated their extensive ...

If you have not heard of the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, you are likely not alone. Now, there are plenty of puns about hidden gems, and how the place rocks, but I'll leave the puns ...

That's what the 77-year-old twin brothers have been doing for five years with their Petrified Wood Gallery on the east end of Front Street, a sort of strip mall along U.S. 30 in Ogallala built to look ...

Formed 36 million years ago in an ancient flooded riverbed, the Mississippi Petrified Forest is a National Natural Landmark filled with petrified trees preserved where they naturally fell or washed up ...

There’s treasure buried in Washington’s desert. It’s not gold doubloons or the lost stash of infamous 1970s skyjacker D.B. Cooper. It’s petrified wood, an heirloom from ginkgo and sequoia trees that ...

Ogallala’s gentle twin Kenfield brothers, who gave their hometown a unique tourist attraction, had done virtually everything together forever.

How would you like to step into a 36 million-year-old forest? In Flora, Mississippi, you can do just that. Flora is the home of Mississippi's Petrified Forest, a National Natural Landmark. A trail ...