Lands & Waters: Parks & Wilderness

Wilderness Diplomacy

Can photos of America's natural wonders inspire a cultural cease-fire?

By Steve Hawk May 20, 2011

In this story: national parks

Outside a house he's building for his family and surrounded by his children, Muhammad Jan, a 46-year-old builder and plasterer, displays photos of Biscayne National Park in Florida and Glacier National Park.

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

Team of Rivals

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

By Judith Lewis Mernit July 1, 2009

In this story: children, national parks, adventure

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

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

Explore: Pictured Rocks

By the shores of Gitche Gumee, the Pictured Rocks hang over the world’s largest, and perhaps most capricious, freshwater lake

By Elisa Freeling January 1, 2004

In this story: public lands, wilderness

Leaves are changing colors above Lake Superior and Lovers Leap, Pictured Rocks National Seashore

Circling Back to the Sierra

Grow up, go wild, get married, settle down: However you change, the mountains will welcome you home

By Daniel Duane January 1, 2004

In this story: wilderness

Explore: Pyramid Lake

In a parched corner of the driest state, Pyramid Lake seems misplaced

By Elisa Freeling November 1, 2003

In this story: wilderness

Glen Canyon Comeback

Drought is draining Lake Powell and restoring Glen Canyon

By Reed McManus November 1, 2003

In this story: wilderness

Morning light illuminates cliffs across from Lake Powell’s abandoned Hite Marina boat ramp.

Untracked Utah

Off-road vehicle sales are booming, but wilderness isn’t a drive-thru experience

By David Darlington January 1, 2003

In this story: wilderness, saving wild places

Lands & Waters: Parks & Wilderness

Wilderness Diplomacy

Flathead Guardians

Grass Roots

Team of Rivals

Long Live the King

Explore: Pictured Rocks

Circling Back to the Sierra

Explore: Pyramid Lake

Glen Canyon Comeback

Untracked Utah

The Sierra Club

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