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Congress Just Ignored Trump’s Public-Land Cuts
Public-land advocates received a valuable civics lesson this week: the president can talk all he wants about budget cuts, but it’s Congress that decides where the money goes. Many of President Donald...
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Did Zinke Borrow His Biggest Idea from Obama?
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s proposal to reshape the department into a “system based on ecosystems, watersheds, and science” got off to a rocky start. The idea was to redraw regional department...
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Zinke's Plan to Fund the Park Service Is Pure Fantasy
When I interviewed Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke at Denali last year, he complained about how Interior’s revenues from natural resource commodities had crashed over the decade since President George W....
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The World’s Wilderness: Going, Going and Soon Gone?
If you’ve ever topped out on a peak in Alaska’s Brooks Range, or floated through Idaho’s Frank Church/River of No Return Wilderness, you’ve perhaps had the sensation that the surrounding wild country...
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Banff's Top Family Adventures
If winter bypassed your town this year, it’s not too late to squeeze in a spring ski trip north of the border. With three resorts within a 45-minute radius that stay open well into May, Banff, Alberta,...
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Believe It or Not, You Can Safari in New Mexico
When Jen spotted our first ibex, a nanny goat clinging to the shade on the west side of a slickrock arroyo, the creature was 800 yards out and so well camouflaged that, even with Jen’s description, it...
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Politicians, Listen Up: Outdoor Rec Brings Big Money
We’re finally getting an understanding of how important outdoor recreation is to the nation’s economy. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its first comprehensive study of the industry in February...
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A Very Old Man for a Wolf
One day in 2005 or 2006, a young wolf in Idaho headed west. He swam across the Snake River to Oregon, which was then outside the gray wolf’s range. After he established a territory, he became the most...
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#6: Exploring Missouri River Country
ROAD TRIP #6 Total distance: 611 miles Total days: 8-9 MADE IN MONTANA Lewistown Art Center Give yourself extra time in Lewistown to browse this collection of 150 Montana-based artists who sell their...
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California's $4 Billion Plan to Get People Outside
The phrase “the great outdoors” evokes certain landscapes: towering spires, roiling cascades, undisturbed deserts. Yosemite, Moab, Acadia, and the like. These are places diverse in flora, fauna, and...
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The Social-Media Sleuths Hunting Down Moose Harassers
On May 4, a man chased a moose onto the median of a busy stretch of highway in Frisco, Colorado. The man stood casually next to the moose with his hands in his pockets, like he was standing with a...
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What Really Caused Washington’s Cougar Attack
One cyclist was killed and another injured by a mountain lion near Seattle, Washington, on Saturday. Such attacks are exceptionally rare, and the circumstances of this one belied typical mountain lion...
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Looking for a Novel Vacation? Discover a New Species
Discovering a new species deep in the jungles of Borneo or in the azure waters off the coast of Belize may seem like the exclusive realm of the adventurer-researcher, but a growing number of curious...
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Op-Ed: Alaska’s Pebble Mine Somehow Just Got Worse
There’s no place in the world like McNeil River, Alaska. In summer, you can sit beside the falls of the river and watch as 40, 50, even 70 bears mate, fight, and fish for their salmon dinner. Together....
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Humans Are Turning Mammals More Nocturnal
Have you ever wondered why you often don’t see animals larger than a squirrel while on your Saturday morning nature walk or mountain-bike ride? There’s a reason for that, scientists say: Us. Around the...
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Is the DOI Strong-Arming National Park Leaders?
When I reached Superintendent Dan Wenk at his office in Yellowstone recently, I was half expecting a gloves-off rant from a man who is known as a cool head. Earlier in the month, Wenk had received a...
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A Rattle with Death in Yosemite
My parents like to say they raised my older brother, Garrett, and me in the Church of Seventh Day Recreationalists. As a kid growing up in Oregon, I remember asking them if we could actually stay home...
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Horses Are Great, but Who Will Save the Wild Burros?
Photo Gallery: Horses Are Great, but Who Will Save the Wild Burros?
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Rules of the Trail for Terrible People
Welcome to the National Park for Terrible People, where we encourage all of our visitors to ignore basic human decency, the laws of nature, and everything your mother ever taught you. Before you start...
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Beyond Books Club: The 'American Wolf' Author Podcast
We followed a famous wolfpack in Yellowstone for our fourth official Outside Beyond Books Club pick, American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee. The book tells...
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