wilderness

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

The Last of the Southwest

Otero Mesa, the remnant of a forgotten grassland, looks for a little recognition

By Peter Frick-Wright July 4, 2012

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

''The sky and land appear to be painted on a vast canvas in a way that forces the eye to focus afar.'' | Darren Huski

Flathead Guardians

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

By Aaron Teasdale May 1, 2011

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

British Columbia's Flathead Valley, mountaintops intact.

Grass Roots

A Great Plains native finds his way home

By Michael Parks November 27, 2010

In this story: travel, adventure, wilderness

Near the Nebraska-Colorado border, an early-summer High Plains mosaic stretches to the sky. | Photo by Michael Forsberg

Long Live the King

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

By Lea Hartog July 1, 2009

In this story: wilderness

View of Mist Falls in Kings Canyon National Park

Brilliant Waters

The digital dreamscapes of Elizabeth Carmel

By Jennifer Hattam May 1, 2007

In this story: photography, wilderness

Wild & Whitewashed

Cutting through the myths in search of Lewis and Clark's America

By Daniel Duane November 1, 2004

In this story: wilderness, wildlands

40 Wild Years

The Wilderness Act's birthday gift: 106 million acres and counting

September 1, 2004

In this story: public lands, wilderness

Cabinet Mountains Wilderness

In the Rockies’ Wild Heart

By Rick Bass March 1, 2004

In this story: public lands, wilderness, wildlands

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