A crowded South Korean national park offers a glimpse of the West’s possible future.
Items by Alan Kesselheim
Rafting the Yellowstone River while hunters shoot ducks out of the sky.
A father understands what’s gained by taking his kids deep into the backcountry again and again as they’re growing up.
The author contends there are more dangers at home.
People should be less worried about the allegedly dire predictions of the Mayan Calendar, and concentrate on making the next year better, since we’re all on earth for a limited time anyway.
In a quiet, solitary hour at Yellowstone, nothing seems to happen -- and everything does.
The peculiar rituals of contemporary American hunters and gatherers are well worth an anthropologist’s study.
Wild animals revel in feasting and simply endure the hungry times, unlike modern Westerners with our sterile supermarkets.
What a disappointment it is to go from Utah's wild Dirty Devil River to the hideous man-made bathtub of Lake Powell.
A family hike along the Pacific Coast Trail becomes an exhilarating encounter with the fierce storm gods of Washington's wild Olympic Peninsula.
People who have chosen to simplify their lives are an inspiration during these hard economic times.
There's a lot of work involved in preserving food, but it’s worth it to have a pantry full of homegrown, home-canned goodies.
Delight in the animals and places that are close to home but often ignored by us.
Learning from an elderly Navajo woman with an intimate, lifelong connection to the land.
Reliving the civil rights movement through the eyes of a man who worked to register black voters.
Alan Kesselheim figures he’s already so poor, he’s recession-proof.
Alan Kesselheim says Westerners should not be shocked when
a house built in a floodplain eventually falls victim to a
flood.
Roger Muggli might be the busiest man in eastern Montana,
what with his family farm, his feed-pellet plant, his dedicated
work on water issues and his quiet, steadfast
environmentalism.
Alan Kesselheim avoids the temptation of consumerism at
Christmas by learning to appreciate the abundance of what he
already has.
Alan Kesselheim delights in his town’s annual
recycling of outmoded electronic gear.
When his old canoe shows signs of aging, Alan Kesselheim
decides to bury it upright in his yard, a contemporary totem
pole.
Alan Kesselheim wonders if rising gas prices and global
warming will one day turn our sprawling suburbs into empty ghost
towns.
Alan Kesselheim misses the summers of the past, when
Western skies were blue and clear and not blurred and choked with
smoke and ash.
Alan Kesselheim wonders if rising gas prices and the
threat of global warming will one day turn today’s sprawling
suburbs into the future’s ghost towns.
Alan Kesselheim goes back to college as a teacher and
delights in the wide-ranging discussions he has with young
people.
Alan Kesselheim ranks some of the gnarliest commutes in
the region.
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