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Environmentalists' Public-Lands Enemy Number One
On a sunny day in early May, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke hiked in southeast Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument as part of a presidential order to revisit the fates of dozens of monuments...
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Eight Ways to Build a Better City
To put together our list of the best towns ever, we scoured more than three decades of coverage and created a Special Advisory Council. Those experts came up with a list of the 25 best burgs in the...
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The People Who Call Yellowstone Home
Millions of visitors are captivated each year by Yellowstone National Park’s rugged beauty and rich history, yet most have never heard of the people who best know one of America’s most beautiful...
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The Wild West of Predator Control Is Hurting Humans and Pets
One day in mid-March, Canyon Mansfield took his three-year-old yellow lab, Casey, on a walk into open scrubland behind his house in Pocatello, Idaho. It was the boy’s happy place. About 400 yards from...
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What’s on My Bedside Table: Sally Jewell
Sally Jewell was the Secretary of the Interior under President Barack Obama and the CEO of REI before that. In other words, she's been busy over the past couple years. Now that things have slowed,...
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The War for Grass in the Heart of Kenya's Safari Country
For nearly three days, 61-year-old Tristan Voorspuy watched from his conservancy as the tourist houses on the ridge burned. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in Sussex, England, Voorspuy...
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Women Hunters and Anglers May Be the Planet's Best Hope
On a snowy night in 2014, 25-year-old Jessi Johnson made good on two years of dedicated practice with her bow and fired an arrow into a 175-pound buck with a three-point-four rack. She remembers none...
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Hunters, the Surprising Saviors of Our Public Lands
On August 24, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke will reveal which national monuments he’ll recommend to reduce in size or abolish. The direct challenge to Teddy Roosevelt’s Antiquities Act is...
View ArticlePhotographing Polar Bears in the Arctic
Photographer and filmmaker Abraham Joffe is drawn to empty places, the North Pole chief among them. On a trip to Greenland, Joffe saw icebergs the size of five city blocks. Even since then, he's been...
View ArticleWeekly Escape: Yellowstone
In our ongoing Weekly Escape series, we aim to transport you from your desk to an incredible place in two minutes or less. A born and bred Ohioan, wildlife filmmaker Alex Goetz now calls the road his...
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"It Just Consumed Me"
There's a house in Mossel Bay, South Africa, high on a hill overlooking the Indian Ocean, five hours east of Cape Town, where shark nerds from around the world come to live each year. I arrived this...
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On the Front Lines of South Africa's Baboon Wars
May 9 was like any other day at the Happy Valley homeless shelter near Cape Town: tranquil—until the baboons arrived. At 10 a.m., several residents sat smoking hand-rolled cigarettes beneath the trees,...
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Living in Glacier During a Massive Wildfire
I’ve heard that there’s no bad day living in the mountains, but living through wildfires in northwest Montana for the past few weeks has made me question if that’s true. I live at the Polebridge Ranger...
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Introducing the Outside Public Lands Forum
There’s no denying that politics and the outdoors are linked. Most of our favorite playgrounds are federally owned, meaning what happens in Washington, D.C., affects our wild places. Of course, that...
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Your Stunning Photos of ANWR
One of the last and largest pristine habitats in the U.S. is under threat. The Senate is currently trying to pass a budget deal that would open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil...
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So...the Interior No Longer Cares About Climate Change?
A leaked five-year strategic plan for the Department of Interior, which oversees 20 percent of the nation’s landmass, has removed the words “climate change” from its pages. While the new plan still...
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How Hunters Save Wildlife with Money and Hard Work
Pictured right here is someone working really, really hard to save the elk species. That may not be immediately obvious, as he’s packing an elk torso out of a valley after putting an arrow through it....
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Legalizing Open Space Is Great, Until It Isn't
Open Space is the Jekyl and Hyde of land conservation: it's a fabulous concept, until you run up against its dark side. If you live in the Intermountain West, you know that Open Space is a...
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A Very Old Man for a Wolf
It’s the nature of the wolf to travel. By age two, wolves of both sexes usually leave their birth packs and strike out on their own, sometimes covering hundreds of miles as they search for mates and...
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The Tragedy of the American Wolf, Up Close
Before the tense drama unfolds in American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West ($28, Crown), there’s a note from author Nate Blakeslee: “Every scene depicting wolves in this book...
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