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  • The great wilderness compromise

    Both sides of the contentious debate over a proposed Idaho wilderness bill invoke Howard Zahniser, father of the Wilderness Act -- and both sides have a point.

    by Jon Christensen, Jan 22, 2007

  • 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

  • Leave the wheels out of wilderness

    As enjoyable as mountain biking is, bikes simply don’t belong in the wilderness, partly because the faster you travel through a place, the smaller – and tamer – that place begins to seem.

    by Greg Hanscom, Sep 18, 2006

  • One war that's worth the fight

    In his memoir, Walking It Off, wilderness activist Doug Peacock tries to make sense of a life spent dealing with war, fighting for wilderness, and coping with cantankerous friends like the late Ed Abbey

    by Laura Paskus, Jun 26, 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The BLM wields fork and spatula over the West's wildlands

    The writer says the "Great Barbecue" of the 1920s is back: The federal government is leasing land for oil and gas as fast as it can

    by Matt Jenkins, Jan 10, 2005

  • 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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