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  • A water-and-wilderness bill kicks up dust in Nevada

    Critics say an economic development initiative could suck desert springs and rural counties dry

    by Ryan Slattery, Sep 13, 2004

  • American — and proud of it

    There’s nothing like a trip to Europe to make an American appreciate living in a country that still has wilderness.

    by Geneen Marie Haugen, Nov 08, 2004

  • American — and proud of it

    Scorned as an American by strangers abroad , the writer finds good reasons to be proud of her country

    by Geneen Marie Haugen, Oct 18, 2004

  • Bears and bull trout may block mine

    A judge rules that constructing the Rock Creek Mine would jeopardize threatened populations of grizzly and bull trout in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness of Montana

    by J.M. McCord, May 02, 2005
  • Book review: The Wild Wyoming Range

    Book review: The Wild Wyoming Range

    A review of The Wild Wyoming Range, edited by Ronald H. Chilcote and Susan Marsh

    by Staff, Mar 04, 2013

  • Carpe Noctem

    Arizona developer promises sun, moon and stars

    by Marty Durlin, Dec 10, 2007

  • Craig’s excellent adaptive adventures

    Craig Kennedy, who hasn’t let a wheelchair keep him from skiing, doesn’t believe physical disabilities should keep anybody out of the backcountry

    by Jennie Lay, May 29, 2006

  • Dottie Fox, one of the greatest old broads

    Dottie Fox, a tireless wilderness advocate and co-founder of the group Great Old Broads for Wilderness, dies after a long fight with cancer

    by Betsy Marston, Oct 02, 2006

  • 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

  • Freewheeling wilderness proposal irks purists

    The Lewis and Clark Mount Hood Wilderness Act would allow mountain bikers and chain saws into a proposed Oregon wilderness

    by Deanna Belch, Nov 22, 2004
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