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  • Whoa! Canada!

    Canadian activists trying to save Alberta's Castle-Crown wildlands from rapid oil and gas development are frustrated by their nation's lack of effective environmental protection laws.

    by Todd Wilkinson, Oct 08, 2001

  • Forces of nature

    Amy Irvine’s memoir, Trespass, describes how she moved to rural Utah after her father’s suicide.

    by Sara Rubin, Apr 28, 2008

  • Words that mountains speak

    In Contact: Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking, Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy has assembled 23 essays from a wide range of authors.

    by Sylvia Torti, May 12, 2008

  • Solo journeys, life lessons

    In the nine essays gathered in her new book, Hiking Alone, poet and artist Mary Beath celebrates nature from the point of view of an independent woman.

    by Irene Wanner, Jun 23, 2008

  • Carpe Noctem

    Arizona developer promises sun, moon and stars

    by Marty Durlin, Dec 10, 2007
  • Wilderness bills languish in legislative limbo

    Wilderness bills languish in legislative limbo

    Even Republican sponsors can't seem to break their party's determined stonewalling on wilderness bills in the House of Representatives.

    by Danielle Venton, Mar 04, 2012

  • Will bulldozers roll into Arizona's Eden?

    Anti-grazing activist Joe Feller is leading the fight against BLM-approved projects in Arizona's Arrastra Mountain Wilderness that include an improved access road to a rancher's inholding.

    by Tony Davis, Feb 18, 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

  • Painting for progress

    Artist Joan Hoffman pours her love of wilderness into her paintings, and uses her art as a way to fight for the environment

    by Jennie Lay, Mar 20, 2006
  • The roadless issue rambles on through the courts

    The roadless issue rambles on through the courts

    Rocky Barker on the endless struggle over protecting the national forests’ roadless areas.

    by Rocky Barker, Sep 23, 2008
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