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  • From hardware to software

    The wilderness movement owes much of its beginning to a man few people remember: a one-time Montana rancher and hardware store owner named Cecil Garland.

    by Tom Price, Jan 29, 2001

  • Get off and walk – wilderness is for wildlife

    One mountain-biker and wilderness activist believes there are places where his beloved bike doesn’t belong, and that wilderness is one of them.

    by Michael Carroll, Mar 03, 2003

  • Save wild connections

    "Places of the Wild: A Wildlands Anthology" is reviewed.

    by Chip Giller, May 29, 1995

  • Lost and found study

    Lost report that shows wilderness could benefit Utah surfaces at the statehouse

    by Staff, Jan 24, 1994

  • The Chapman saga continues

    U.S. Forest Service's land trade with developer Tom Chapman signed, but Telluride neighbors ask injunction to prevent development.

    by Staff, Jun 13, 1994

  • A wilderness rates one official boss

    Forest Service centralizes management of Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness to save costs.

    by Staff, Oct 17, 1994

  • A crowded Washington wilderness gets ugly

    Activist Martha Hall accuses area outfitters of trashing northern Washington's Pasayten Wilderness, which has been discovered and overrun by recreationists.

    by James Morton Turner, Dec 17, 2001

  • A wide-angled wilderness

    The proposed Wild Sky Wilderness Area northeast of Seattle could be a model for future wilderness designations, based on its diversity of tourism-based opportunities along with good environmental stewardship.

    by Jon Waldman, Jun 24, 2002

  • Snowy middle ground

    Wilderness advocates and snowmobile enthusiasts are working together in Montana to find enough room in the landscape to accommodate both their passions

    by Ray Ring, Mar 06, 2006

  • Wilderness: The new anti-nuclear weapon

    The designation of a new wilderness area in Utah – the Cedar Mountain Wilderness -- may make it harder for nuclear power plant operators to ship radioactive waste to the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation

    by Matt Jenkins, Mar 06, 2006
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