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.

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

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