Back in January a U.S. District Court Judge in San Francisco said that the National Park Service’s plan for allowing horses into Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks violated the 1964 Wilderness Act. The ruling by judge Richard Seeborg came in a three-year-old lawsuit brought by the High Sierra Hikers Association, which held that the [...]
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The BLM has approved 1,298 new natural gas wells in and around Utah’s Green River and Desolation Canyon, a National Historic Landmark and proposed national wilderness area. The wells will be drilled over 15 years by a publicly traded company from Colorado, Gasco, which actually wanted almost 1,500 new wells. This is all but a [...]
Mountain caribou are unique: They are the only species of deer that move to higher ground in winter, where their long legs enable them to churn through six-feet-deep snow or more to reach winter lichen high up on evergreens. Their biggest threat is wolves — and human beings on snowmobiles. The latter create packed-snow corridors [...]
On a blustery summer night, the Red Top Tavern in Darrington, Washington, is nearly empty. A neon Hamm’s beer sign illuminates a picture of a local logger reclining in the bucket of an excavator with the caption “Redneck Hot Tub.” Above it hangs a crosscut saw, just like in every bar in every other Northwest [...]
Red Bull’s Supernatural snowboarding contest, the brainchild of rider Travis Rice, gets under way tomorrow in the Selkirk Mountains near Nelson, British Columbia, and it will include terrain enhancements the likes of which haven’t been seen in the snow world. More than 80 manmade jumps, ramps, and kickers have been built on the 45-degree Scary [...]
The story on ski area growth in North America is simple: It’s slowed way down. Skier numbers are flat, real estate has gone bust, and the only place skiing and snowboarding are seeing participation numbers rise significantly is in the sidecountry and backcountry. And that really doesn’t mean there are more skiers, it just means [...]
It’s not law yet, not by a long shot, but this past fall Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar presented Congress with a plan to designate 18 areas in nine Western states as wilderness. The plan is crafty as well intriguing. The crafty part is that Salazar highlighted pet wilderness projects that have already been [...]
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