Lands & Waters

Wild at Heart

The Club rebrands--and rethinks--the struggle that started it all

By Steve Hawk June 4, 2014

In this story: saving wild places, wilderness

Reclaiming Wilderness

It tells us who we are, and we lose it at our peril

By Kenneth Brower June 4, 2014

In this story: saving wild places, wilderness

Wandering among the alien rock formations of New Mexico's Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area, visitors often lose all sense of scale. This spire, known as a hoodoo, is barely six feet tall.

Those Not-So-Wild Europeans

Re-creating wilderness on a continent that has almost none

By Lenny Antonelli June 4, 2014

In this story: saving wild places, public lands, wilderness, travel, hiking

Looking across Ballycroy National Park to the Nephin Beg Mountains, which are at the heart of Ireland's first wilderness area.

Misty Copeland's Pointe Shoes

By Mackenzie Mount June 3, 2014

In this story: oceans, women

Why Wilderness

By Michael Brune June 3, 2014

In this story: saving wild places, wilderness, inspiring connections outdoors, military outdoors

No Time for Tame

By Bob Sipchen June 3, 2014

In this story: travel, adventure, saving wild places, wilderness

To Kill a Wolf

The wolves in my life include one I wanted to shoot

By Bjorn Dihle July 1, 2013

In this story: wildlife, adventure, travel

Last Words

November 1, 2013

In this story: oceans

If John Muir Tweeted

Muir had a gift for distilling profound thoughts into short sound bites.

By Michael Brune November 1, 2013

In this story: public lands

If John Muir could tweet, what would he say?

Lobsters: Ten-Legged Sea Cannibals

A depraved new development among the scuttling sea bugs: cannibalism

By Dashka Slater September 1, 2013