May 20: “Aldo Leopold’s Legacy and Wilderness” Presentation by professor Rick Knight from Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Silverthorne Library. August 7: “A Celebration ...

The popular East Maroon and West Maroon hiking trails may be closed to hikers and equestrians under the new draft management plan for the White River National Forest. Because of a pending change in ...

We glided silently across the placid lake surface, the only ripples in the water being the V-shaped line cut by our canoe’s bow and the concentric circles from our paddles. Along the bank, the poplars ...

The Selway Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation was created nearly 20 years ago to steward those two huge chunks of primitive country and keep them accessible to visitors. But there’s a second, less ...

Want to carve and shoot your own bow and arrow like Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games?” Then, join the Central New York Primitive Skills Group for one of its, twice-monthly meetings held on 59 ...

What is a wilderness? When Europeans reached America, they believed the land was almost untouched by humans — a true wilderness. Compared to heavily populated Europe, they were right. Nevertheless, ...

The U.S. National Wilderness Preservation System currently protects 757 areas covering 109.5 million acres, or 5% of the United States. In the lower 48 states, only about 2.7% of the land base is ...

The Park Service is considering formalizing rock-climbing management, designating inner-canyon campsites and phasing in rules to pack out inner-canyon human waste in Black Canyon of the Gunnison ...