A new Forest Service policy that requires commercial guiding licenses for groups of hikers and campers effectively excludes small nonprofits that bring inner-city kids to the wilderness for a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
by Alan Durning,
Dec 08, 2011
When you're out of work and homeless, it's inspiring to remember young wanderers like Everett Ruess, even if he never returned from his mysterious sojourn in the canyon country of Utah.
by Jane Koerner,
Nov 08, 2011
A woman finds solace and delight in climbing Colorado's highest and most challenging mountains.
by Jane Koerner,
Aug 18, 2011
A float down the Lower San Juan teaches surprising lessons about dams, water and silt in the West.
by Craig Childs,
Apr 17, 2011
In Cities and Nature in the American West, environmental historians dissect the relationship between the urban West and the natural landscape.
by Andrea Clark Mason,
Sep 13, 2010
Wild animals revel in feasting and simply endure the hungry times, unlike modern Westerners with our sterile supermarkets.
by Alan Kesselheim,
Aug 30, 2010
When you're camped all alone in the wilderness, there is nothing like a book to bring you comfort.
by Emma Brown,
Sep 14, 2009
Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking, such as: Redefining rancher politics, A rediscovered renewable, Creating public nooks and crannies and more.
by Marty Durlin, Ray Ring, Sandra Tassel, Sarah Gilman, Terray Sylvester, Jennifer Anderson ,
Mar 13, 2009
by Alan S. Kesselheim,
Feb 04, 2008
When his old canoe shows signs of aging, Alan Kesselheim
decides to bury it upright in his yard, a contemporary totem
pole.
by Alan Kesselheim,
Nov 12, 2007
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