Lands & Waters: Parks & Wilderness

Conservationists, the Olympics, and an indignant porcupine keep mountaintop-removal coal mining out of a wildlife paradise

A Great Plains native finds his way home

America has had the foresight to set aside many of its wild and beautiful places. With climate change upon us, scientists may need to use these sanctuaries as laboratories in which to play Noah, if not god.

How one man's quest to visit every national park sparked Ken Burns's latest documentary

Teens from L.A.'s notorious Crenshaw and Dorsey High Schools come together in Yosemite

How the Sierra Club's 1960s lawsuit stopped Disney from turning Mineral King into a ski resort

The Grand Canyon under glass

Ten urban escapes, just a paddle stroke away

The digital dreamscapes of Elizabeth Carmel

Sierra Club Outings leaders share their favorite backpacking destinations