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The Endangered Species Act Needs a Reboot
Like a lot of people who’ve reached middle age, when I picture myself, I still see an invincible 20-year-old kid, ready to charge up mountains. Fortunately, I’m aware enough to know that, at 44, I’m...
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Susan Casey on Seeing Her First Great White Shark
What I noticed, in the moments before I saw the shark, was the silence. It was a deep silence, full of myth and primordial fear. That’s the one thing that everyone who’s encountered a great white...
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Hillary Jordan on Her First Bear Encounter
In the summer of 1993, when I was newly married, my husband B. and I took his nephew and my two little brothers camping in the Sierra Nevada. Neither I nor the boys, who were ages 12 to 14, had ever...
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Trump’s Pardon Condones Western Rebellion
On Wednesday, Dwight Hammond and his son, Steven, walked out of a federal prison in Southern California, joined oil magnate Forrest Lucas aboard his private jet, and flew home to Burns, Oregon. A day...
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We're Overprotecting Birds at the Expense of Climbers
Every year in late winter and early spring, about 85 to 100 climbing areas nationwide are closed to protect birds of prey during their nesting period. Many of these seasonal bans on climbing are...
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In 'Eager,' Ben Goldfarb Champions the Beavers
If you care one whit about wildlife, you’ve probably seen the YouTube hagiography “How Wolves Change Rivers.” If you’re not among its 39 million viewers, here’s the gist: After the destruction of...
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A Beginner's Guide to Dating a Birder
Hiking with Jessie, my significant other, means flushing birds by pishing so we can look at their jizz. I learned what this means the old-fashioned way in 2012, without Google, on our first hike...
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Westerners (Blue or Red) Aren't Happy with Zinke
Republican and Democrat, the majority of westerners don’t think Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is doing a great job. They’re especially displeased by the downsizing of Bears Ears and Grand...
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Swimming With Great White Sharks
Our PlayNow series highlights an epic POV clip so you can get in on the action even when you’re stuck behind a desk. In this edition, underwater explorer Dominik Fretz worked with drone manufacturer...
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The NRA Is Lying to You
Last week, I argued that hunters should leave the NRA. Despite its pro-hunting rhetoric, I wrote in the piece, the NRA betrays sportsmen and women by donating money to anti-hunting politicians and...
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How to Save a Grizzly Bear from Hunters. Maybe.
Kelly Mayor grew up in Wyoming in a family of hunters. “My dad and brother hunt,” Mayor says. “My husband is a hunter. His family are hunters. We usually have game meat in our freezer.” Typically, the...
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These Are the Most Secluded Hikes in the U.S.
In my younger years, I frequented the Sherburne Wildlife Management Area (WMA), deep within Louisiana’s 1 million–acre Atchafalaya River Basin, to hunt migrating waterfowl or whitetail deer in fall and...
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Food-Planning Basics for Backpacking
Second only to gear, food is the most difficult thing for backpackers to get right. Follow these recommendations on amounts, types, and overnight storage to avoid learning the hard way. How much food...
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Williamson Rock, SoCal's Premier Crag, Might Reopen
The cliffs of Williamson Rock are a sport climber’s dream. Located in Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, the highly featured granitic rock offers around 225 routes, ranging...
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Orcas in the Mist
The little orca surfaces under an Apocalyptic red sun that’s barely visible behind a shroud of smoke from the wildfires burning across the West. We’re headed east down the Strait of Juan de Fuca toward...
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Why Hunting a Single Grizzly Bear Is Such a Big Deal
Sometime this fall, if a judge allows it, an Idaho resident will nudge their truck up a rutted road in search of high ground from which to spot, stalk, and shoot a grizzly bear. For days, the hunter...
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Yellowstone Grizzlies Return to the Endangered List
Twenty-three grizzly bears have been permanently spared from a trophy hunt that was scheduled to begin in the greater Yellowstone area on September 1, thanks to a U.S. District Court ruling that found...
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The Glory of Otis, Fattest of the Fat Bears
Our champion, Otis, is 22 years old, with blondish brown hair, a straight, narrow nose, and deep scars on his neck and above his right eye. When he’s at the top of his game, fans describe his neck as...
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The Stay-at-Home Mom Turned Falconer
Name: Deanna Curtis Job: Director of falconry at the Broadmoor Resort Home Base: Colorado Springs, Colorado Age: 52 Education: Graduated from Estacada High School in Oregon For Deanna Curtis’s two sons...
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The Travel Kit for Wannabe Adventure Photographers
Being an adventure travel photographer seems like the outdoor industry’s greatest gig. At least in theory. Even as an amateur, photography is the perfect excuse to travel to some of the world’s most...
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