wilderness

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.

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

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