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 ...

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 ...

Long before the rise of fast food and frozen dinners, Native Alaskan tribes created meals from the raw, frozen wilderness around them. From fermented fish heads to caribou marrow, their diets were ...

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, ...

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 ...

A little-visited area off Madison Street and Tanglewood Drive hides a system of primitive trails and a stream that flows into a 10-foot waterfall. The 70-acre natural area is marked by ravines, native ...

Excerpted from Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man, Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. We were standing in a circle on a beach of smooth ...

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 ...