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In the Wilderness, You Can't Always Get What You Want
When my friends and I encountered the fresh grizzly bear scat, we were deep in Wyoming’s Teton Wilderness, 20 miles from a trailhead. I’d seen gri...
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What One Researcher Learned Studying Grizzlies for 40 Years
Bruce McLellan recalls seeing his first grizzly bear when he was only 4 years old. It must have made an impression. He became a wildlife ecologist...
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The Burgeoning Science of Search and Rescue
On May 5, 2023, a 19-year-old hiker named Matthew Read headed out on a roughly 12-mile trek in an underpopulated part of Glacier National Park ...
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To Bolt or Not to Bolt? Feds Revive Wilderness Climbing Debate
Federal proposals have reignited the decades-old debate over the installation of permanent climbing anchors in the wilderness, reopening a rift b...
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Why Aren't There More Websites Like the Encyclopedia of Surfing?
If you're a skier, a climber, a runner, or a lover of outdoor sports like these, with long histories filled with fascinating characters, stories, ...
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Ski Bum Culture Hits Reality
Nearly two decades ago, I moved to the mountains to be a ski bum, chasing snow. I was a stereotype—an East Coast kid pulled west by the promise of...
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Oh, Hi, Hello There, Welcome to 2023's Most Charming Animal Photos
© Dakota Vaccaro / Comedy Wildlife 2023 It's not fair to anthropomorphize animals, but, do you have any doubt they, uh, animaliphize us? When deer...
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Opinion: Keep Public Lands Public—Especially In National Parks
There’s a 640-acre parcel of magnificent, state-owned public land in Wyoming that’s set for auction unless the state changes its mind. Simply put,...
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The Brooks Range Needs Your Voice
The rugged and remote Brooks Range (Gwich'in: Gwazhał) stretches 700 miles from Alaska's Arctic into Canada's Yukon. It's home to some of the most...
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Opinion: Saying Goodbye to Two Conservation Radicals
The West lost two larger-than-life conservationists this year, and while I considered both friends, they couldn’t have been more different. Yet b...
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Three of the Most Popular National Parks in the Country to Require Reservations in 2024
The National Park Service announced earlier this week that Arches, Glacier, and Rocky Mountain National Parks are keeping their pilot reservation...
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Are You Suffering from Fat Ski Syndrome?
In 1988, the Atomic Ski Company engineer Rupert Huber was asked to make a powder ski that could float on top of fluffy snow better than the averag...
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