In early summer, 1973, a diverse group of 17 Montana Wilderness Association members from around the country met at the Hyalite Peak Trailhead to walk to Specimen Creek in Yellowstone ...

Discover free outdoor events in Orange County, including Gypsum Canyon access and art at Helena Modjeska Historic House.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Forest Service has announced its intention to log South Cottonwood Canyon in the name of ...

Hiking exuberantly up familiar Rattlesnake Canyon Trail in early September’s splendid heat, I realized how fortunate we are to live in Santa Barbara and yet have easy access to near-wilderness canyon ...

It's a warm, dry June afternoon as 13 students, a biologist and I stand on the edge of the deepest river gorge in North America, Hells Canyon, and stare in. The students are silent. Awestruck. The ...

“With regard to areas of wilderness, we should be guardians not gardeners.” – Howard Zahniser, Wilderness Act author Last September, Wilderness Watch, Sequoia ForestKeeper, and Tule River Conservancy ...