Bear-Hunting Dogs Turn Into Bear Savers
By Michael Engelhard December 25, 2021In Alaska, trained Karelian bear dogs teach bears to avoid human danger
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animals
Trump’s Parting Shot at the Arctic Refuge on Its 60th Anniversary
By Michael Engelhard December 6, 2020Celebrating our wildest refuge, whose fate hangs by a thread
Inside Early Explorers' Journals
By Michael Engelhard May 4, 2019Before photography and bullet journals, travelers' sketchbooks marked discoveries
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books
America’s Most Obscure Desert Is in Alaska
By Michael Engelhard June 16, 2018The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes—like the Sahara except with beavers and caribou
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wilderness
The Stogie-Chomping Daredevil Warrior for Wilderness
By Michael Engelhard May 23, 2017100 years on, we could use more Martin Littons
The Home of the White Bear
By Michael Engelhard February 27, 2017The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is in danger—again
Should We Control Nature to Make It Nicer?
By Michael Engelhard January 20, 2017Death by grizzly, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature
A Field Day for Looters at Utah’s Unprotected Bears Ears
By Michael Engelhard November 28, 2016Volunteers try to keep ancient petroglyphs from being defaced or destroyed
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saving wild places
Real Men Gather Musk Ox Wool
By Michael Engelhard October 13, 2016Just outside Nome, Alaska, the bushes are hung with qiviut, the insanely valuable underwool of the musk ox
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wilderness