Historically, much of the dunes in Oregon and Washington were sparsely vegetated mounds of loose sand. To keep the grains from blowing into and overwhelming nearby settlements, there was an ...

MOSES LAKE, Wash. – Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon ...

Sand dunes are rarely isolated. They form in large groups known as dune fields, whispering in the desert wind or flowing with the water on a seabed. Now researchers have discovered that dunes ...

Andy Parker I've been at this journalism thing for the better part of 30 years now, long enough to know that if you're gonna write about off-road vehicles, you'd better be wearing a helmet.

This rare plant is found exclusively on dunes found along the Columbia River in central Washington. Gray cat’s eyes are threatened by habitat loss to dams, agriculture and off-road vehicles. Other ...