Many summer visitors to Summit County, and even some locals, don’t fully understand what a “wilderness area” is. Is it any undeveloped land, part of the national forest, a federal or state park? And ...

The Minnesota Wild have made their first trade in the week of the deadline! Boy, we hope it's someone cool and good and truly ...

For many of us, wilderness areas — those priceless natural lands preserved under the 1964 Wilderness Act — have intrinsic value as federally protected habitat for wildlife and plants species and ...

A few weeks into a medical school project in Bethel, Alaska, Eric Weiss, MD, got a call in the middle of the night from Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. Eric Weiss, MD The caller, a Native American ...

INDEX — The Wild Sky Wilderness just got a little bigger. Last week, 345 acres of land in the wilderness were transferred from private to public ownership through the Wilderness Land Trust, a ...

The article on the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Act (HCN, 3/3/03: The Wild Card) gave readers the impression that, until recently, conservationists always advocated multi-area wilderness ...

Wilderness camping is not for the faint of heart. It’s for the dreamers, the doers, the ones who crave connection with nature and aren’t afraid to get a little dirt under their nails. Far removed from ...

Trout Unlimited (TU) recently published a piece in Montana disparaging Wilderness advocates’ opposition to an arctic grayling project that TU is pursuing in the Red Rock Lakes Wilderness. The project ...

The nation's first official wilderness turned 100 this year. But today, the definition of wilderness is being tested. KALW reporter Marissa Ortega-Welch has been hiking in the wilderness for over 20 ...

A short drive from downtown Austin, Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve's tranquil trails and nature center attract families with tots and teenagers, couples on daytime getaways, researchers, bird-watchers ...

At the intersection of Mountain Springs Road and Beech Lake Road on State Game Lands 57, I noticed the parallel tracts from the bottom of several Jet sleds leading toward the lake in the thin coating ...