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We’ve Entered the Era of Ultralight Spotting Scopes
I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with spotting scopes. Sure, the massive amount of magnification and light gathering they offer creates the best-possible wildlife viewing experience, but...
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How the Battle to Save Rhinos Became a Full-Scale War
Since 2008, poachers in Africa have slaughtered more than 7,900 rhinos for their horns, a tragedy driven by demand in Asia for the appendage’s purported—though nonexistent—medicinal properties. If the...
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The Wrong Way to Fight Off a Bear
The odds of getting seriously injured by a bear in North America are slim. There are just a few dozen bear attacks on the continent every year, and only a handful of them put someone in the hospital....
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It’s Fat Bear Week, Motherf*ckers
Summer is now a distant memory and we feel a certain giddiness in the air that can only mean one thing: Fat Bear Week is nigh. There’s nothing like the sweet, pure joy of watching apex predators plump...
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Who Owns the Wild: Grizzlies or Humans?
Somer Treat has run the trail where a grizzly bear killed her husband, Brad, nearly every day since his death in June 2016. Brad was mountain biking on a national-forest trail near Glacier National...
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Meet the Volunteers Behind Our Favorite Fat Bears
Katharine Green is staging her scene. From her desktop in Las Vegas, she toggles a camera located thousands of miles away, in Katmai National Park in Alaska, panning and zooming before settling on a...
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Outside Podcast: 'Born to Run'—with a Donkey
No one has had a greater influence on modern recreational running than Christopher McDougall. His 2009 book Born to Run introduced the masses to barefoot running and became a revolutionary bestseller....
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7 National Wildlife Refuges Just Outside Major Cities
Living in a big city doesn’t mean you don’t have access to the wild outdoors. The National Wildlife Refuge System, an initiative within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, manages 567 national wildlife...
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The Ultimate Joshua Tree National Park Travel Guide
It’s embarrassing to admit, but ten years ago, when I first started going to Joshua Tree National Park, I got lost. I’d been shuffling along, marveling at the sheer magnitude of the fractured...
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The Ultimate Yellowstone National Park Travel Guide
Yellowstone is a trippy place. Its 2.2 million acres are dotted with bubbling mud pots, steaming hot pools of concentric rainbow hues, and some 500 geysers that spew water—and, occasionally,...
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I Bought an Elephant to Find Out How to Save Them
On the evening of April 5, 2017, an Emirates Boeing 747 freighter landed at Wattay International Airport in Vientiane, Laos, and waited on the tarmac for several hours. Its dead-of-night mission...
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Richard Louv Wants You to Bond with Wild Animals
Author Richard Louv is best known as the author of Last Child in the Woods, his 2005 bestseller that established the phrase nature-deficit disorder and helped spark an international movement to examine...
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Getting Stung By the Nastiest Creatures on Earth
On the new History Channel show Kings of Pain, Rob “Caveman” Alleva and cohost Adam Thorn get bit and stung by the nastiest insects, reptiles, and fish on the planet—on purpose. They’re following in...
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This Man Fought a Grizzly Bear with a Pocketknife
Colin Dowler wanted to go on an adventure for his 45th birthday, so in July, he decided to scout out a route up Canada’s Mount Doogie Dowler, a distinctive, 7,000-foot peak as jagged as houndstooth...
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When Nature Gets Heavy Metal
Search a major online music platform for “nature” and you get a lot of stuff designed to help you relax. Recordings of chirping rainforest creatures, gently tumbling waves, a pulsing didgeridoo—it’s...
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The Environmental Threat of Trump's Wall
On January 20, 2017, President Donald Trump’s inauguration day, Laiken Jordahl went for a hike in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, an ecological jewel in the Sonoran Desert that straddles the...
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How to Start Birding Everywhere You Go
My curiosity for birding began when I led backpacking trips at an outdoor-education school in Australia’s Victorian Alps. For the first time in my life, I was trekking on a new continent to the chorus...
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The Life-Changing Benefits of Animal Encounters
Several years ago, writer Richard Louv was on Alaska’s Kodiak Island to visit a remote lodge where his son worked as a guide. Walking from his cabin to dinner, he stopped briefly to double check that...
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The World Champ of Fly-Casting Just Wants to Be a Teen
One morning in February, 15-year-old Maxine McCormick leaned her fly rod against her shoulder and watched her coach, Chris Korich, warm up. Wind chopped the surface of the shallow casting pond. Korich,...
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The Fight Over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The newest miniseries from the environmental podcast Threshold, which launched on November 5, opens with shouting. A man chants, “Drill, baby, drill,” as a crowd roars. Then a woman leads a...
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