GENTRY -- Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari, one of Northwest Arkansas' oldest tourist attractions, has been closed for the winter. Leon Wilmoth, former manager of the family business, said the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its NYC upfront this week, Discovery has handed a six-episode order to Legends of the Wild (working title), a docuseries that will follow two wilderness experts as they investigate ...

Summit and Eagle counties are fortunate to have lots of public land that we can enjoy and on which we can recreate. That is why we live here. Most of these lands are in the White River National Forest ...

THE trip to the top of Mt. San Jacinto is as easy as hopping into a gondola via the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway and soaring one vertical mile above granite escarpments, lodgepole pines and waterfalls ...

A few weeks into a medical school project in Bethel, Alaska, Eric Weiss, MD, got a call in the middle of the night from Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. Eric Weiss, MD The caller, a Native American ...

As our days wane into fall, some of us wax philosophical. Moral philosophers distinguish between things that have intrinsic value and those that have instrumental value. Which does wilderness have, or ...

As Mollie and I rolled down the highway toward Superior, Mont., and on up along the Saint Regis River to Lookout Pass, I saw a moose quietly browsing in a clearing beside the road. Moose are the ...

I was bushwhacking through a tangle of shrub and trees, following the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico, when I came across fresh bear prints in the wet, sandy shores. Big bear prints. I shouldn't ...

ASPEN – Imagine a crisp, cool summer morning near Cathedral Lake in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness. You emerge from your tent, tiptoe through the dew-soaked grass, inhale the fresh pine scent, ...

In Deliverance, four men are hounded through woods by inbred rednecks. In Wild, Reese Witherspoon hikes 1,000 miles and hurts a toenail. Are movies about the great outdoors going soft? How wild is ...

A short drive from downtown Austin, Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve's tranquil trails and nature center attract families with tots and teenagers, couples on daytime getaways, researchers, bird-watchers ...