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Hikers: Stop Hating on Hunters
It’s tempting for those of us who love the outdoors to think of ourselves as belonging to one of two groups. There’s my own crew of sportsmen and women, known as the hook and bullet crowd; and then...
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Dark New Books on Our Greed for Nature
Hot take: We’re abusing the heck out of our planet’s natural resources. These great new books investigate the ways—insidious, institutional, and illegal—those exploitations shake out, from the...
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12 Ways to Find Adventure Close to Home
When you have a little one, day hikes involving more than an hour in the car won’t be as appealing as they once were. In fact, “adventure” takes on a whole new meaning with a child, especially as you...
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It's Hard to Leave No Trace with a Toddler
The June when Mason was three, we went hiking in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge. At one point, Mason stopped in a bright yellow wildflower field, and I photographed him rolling around on the side of the...
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Animals Have Inner Lives, Too
Novels might be the most humanist of art forms. They became popular just as humans started to believe they were the center of life on earth, and they’ve been the go-to form ever since for writers...
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Hunters Need to Stand Up for the Clean Water Act
Billed as a rollback of Obama-era “overreach,” the Trump administration announced the most far-reaching assault on environmental protections our country has ever seen. The proposed regulations from the...
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The New Fight Over Oil in Alaska’s Greatest Wilderness
If the current effort to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling succeeds, then no protected lands in America are safe. That’s not hyperbole. For almost 40 years, the fight over...
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Zinke's Gone, But the Interior Won't Change
A little over a year after Outside published my profile of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, he’s finally on his way out. Like many reporters who’ve followed Ryan Zinke’s tumultuous tenure at Interior,...
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The Egg Thief
Just before noon on May 3, 2010, John Struczynski, a janitor at Birmingham Airport in the British Midlands, observed something peculiar. A balding, middle-aged passenger had entered the shower room in...
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Was the Ocean Cleanup Just a Pipe Dream?
Last fall, with much fanfare, a 2,000-foot-long contraption of floating pipes was towed out to sea from San Francisco as the first step in an ambitious project to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage...
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Studying Mule Deer Migration in Wyoming
Wildlife-biology student Anna Ortega and her team at the University of Wyoming are doing field research on mule deer following the animals' 150-mile migration.
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Cartels, Spies, and the Last Days of the Vaquita
“It’s like love,” Andrea Crosta says, looking over the Pacific as an early mist parts and the California sun creeps between clouds. The 49-year-old motions to Argos, his pit-Lab rescue from Tijuana,...
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Trump Has Officially Nominated Bernhardt as DOI Lead
President Donald Trump just nominated Ryan Zinke’s former deputy to be Secretary of the Interior. Given the GOP-controlled Senate’s history of kowtowing to this administration, it seems a given that...
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How a Man Killed a Mountain Lion with His Bare Hands
On Monday, a trail runner in Colorado was attacked by a mountain lion. While fighting to defend his life, the man managed to kill the lion. This is how he did that. The reports I read this morning...
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Op-Ed: Access to the Outdoors Is a Basic Human Right
The Land of Enchantment: our state motto perfectly captures New Mexico and its sacred Zia, a harmonious symbol of friendship that originated in the Zia Pueblo. The four words evoke a stunning landscape...
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What's in the Natural Resources Management Act
Update: The Senate voted 92-to-8 to pass the NRMA on February 12, demonstrating the incredible level of bi-partisan support this bill enjoys. The Senate will vote on the bi-partisan Natural Resources...
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Now Is Your Chance to Protect the Clean Water Act
The Trump administration is trying to remove Clean Water Act protections for at least 60 percent of streams and up to 110 million acres of wetlands across the entire country. That’s bad, but before...
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The New Movies from SXSW We’re Excited About
Every spring, the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, is a sounding board for what the media cool kids are into. Over nine days, they screen more than 100 films, from cute animated shorts to...
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This Film Shows What Trump's Wall Would Destroy
If you repeat a word too often, it loses all meaning; it becomes air on your tongue, without texture or a tie to anything real. Now say “the border.” In the past four years, we’ve heard about this...
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