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  • Writers on the Range

    My Wonderful Heart Attack

    The writer counts the ways he has changed since suffering a major heart attack in Colorado

  • Writers on the Range

    Nature-deficit disorder is ruining our kids

    The writer says children have lost the ability to play in the outdoors

  • Writers on the Range

    Watch out for hijackers in national parks

    The writer gets held up by ravens in two national parks

  • Writers on the Range

    Camping: We get grimy, look funky and love it

    The writer loves the grit of camping out in a special place

  • Writers on the Range

    Waypoints of the heart

    The writer loves geocache hunts — and wishes everything in life were that simple

  • Writers on the Range

    Sometimes, it's possible to be too much in touch

    The writer takes a river trip and almost pushes a fellow passenger overboard

  • Uncommon Westerners

    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

  • Writers on the Range

    Shooting at hikers is perfectly legal

    The writer and his family duck bullets on a hiking trail through a Colorado national forest, then find that the shooters were within their rights

  • Writers on the Range

    Ego climbing at Delicate Arch

    The writer doesn't appreciate the prowess of a climber of Delicate Arch in Arches National Park

  • Essays

    A very brief conversation with a Jet Fighter

    A long solitary hike through an empty, pristine desert is interrupted by a close encounter with an F-16 fighter plane

  • Book Reviews

    Ode to a very hot spot

    Live! From Death Valley is John Soennichsen’s "love letter to an ill-tempered mistress," California’s Death Valley

  • Writers on the Range

    National Parks are truly under the gun

    Reporter Ben Long says the evidence is on the ground: Our national parks aren't getting the money they need

  • Writers on the Range

    The bottom-line truth: We are protecting our parks

    Acting Interior Department Secretary Lynn Scarlett says don't believe the stories: Our national parks are doing well.

  • Book Reviews

    National Parks and the Woman's Voice

    National Parks and the Woman’s Voice by Polly Welts Kaufman examines the role of women in the National Park Service

  • Book Reviews

    Friends in high places

    In the essays gathered in Breaking Through the Clouds, Richard Fleck weaves in history, humanity and poetry to tell the stories of the mountains he climbs

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