The Stateline Trail along Montana's western border with Idaho is a crown-jewel of backcountry hiking: Miles of rugged singletrack, much of them above tree line, snaking along a mountainous ridge into ...

On Dec. 13, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee passed the mountain bikes in wilderness bill (HR 1349), sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif. This bill weakens the 1964 Wilderness Act ...

It’s the debate that’s brewed for decades. Do mountain bikes belong in wilderness areas? Mountain bikers, hikers, conservationists and lawmakers have long traded jabs about the place of bicycles on ...

The federal Wilderness Act of 1964 was not vague about its intent: to protect significant and as-yet unspoiled land and wildlife habitat from the ravages of “an increasing population, accompanied by ...

For more information on Sustainable Trail Coalition’s plan to open designated wilderness trails to mountain bikers, go to http://www.sustainabletrailscoalition.org ...

Last summer the Colorado Backcountry Hunters & Anglers chapter held our annual Rendezvous in Sylvan Lake State Park near Eagle, west of the 123,400-acre Holy Cross Wilderness. One of the many ...

At some point nearly every new mountain biker makes the same sad discovery: Bicycles are banned from this country's 170,000 square miles of Wilderness. That's Wilderness with a capital W— those lands ...

MISSOULA -- A legal change to allow bikes in federal wilderness hasn’t been introduced in Congress yet, but the issue already has advocates riled and rolling. Last week, a coalition of conservation ...

For most environmentalists, nothing is more sacred than America’s wilderness: 109 million acres of land in 44 states protected by Congress and “untrammeled by man,” where only hikers and horseback ...

A mountain biker pedals over the pass overlooking Castle Peak prior to its inclusion in the White Clouds Wilderness in legislation in 2015. Courtesy photo We are experiencing unprecedented, ...

For most environmentalists, nothing is more sacred than America’s wilderness: 109 million acres of land in 44 states protected by Congress and “untrammeled by man,” where only hikers and horseback ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. – For most environmentalists, nothing is more sacred than America’s wilderness: 109 million acres of land in 44 states protected by Congress and “untrammeled by man,” where only ...