I Was Flying to Montana to Bury My Son
When our son died on the same day he was born, my first thought—my only thought—was that it was I who had killed him.
Mark Sundeen
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The Green Green Grass of Utah
Utah is currently trying to build the Lake Powell Pipeline. Who it will benefit is another story.
Dog and Country
In the swank ballroom of Hotel Albuquerque a silver-headed gent in a three-piece suit, shirt open at the throat, perched on a stool and crooned a finger-snapping take on Mack the Knife.
The Tiny-House Revolution Goes Huge
Remember not too long ago, maybe 2012, the slew of blogs and Tumblrs and films that heralded not just a new type of house but a movement, a post-collapse quest for simplicity and freedom, a rejection...
The Last Days at Standing Rock
On Friday, December 2, Bobby Robedeaux and seven other members of the Pawnee Nation left Pawnee, Oklahoma, hauling a trailer full of firewood 900 miles north to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in...
The Malheur Occupiers Were Found Innocent. The Standing Rock Protestors Were Assaulted. What Does This Say About Our Country?
Two impassioned mass protests: one led by white people with guns, the other by Native Americans. Taken together, they shed light on the centuries-old myth of the valiant cowboy and savage Indian—and...
What's Happening in Standing Rock?
Two of our country's biggest issues, racism and climate change, have collided on a North Dakota reservation. This week, I loaded up my station wagon with water and supplies and drove up for a look at...
Stray
Cheryl Strayed's memoir of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Wild, offers a refreshing take on outdoor writing by reminding us that a journey through the wilderness can help in overcoming the most...
Why Noah Went to the Woods
He was a proud Marine who survived three brutal tours in Iraq and had plans to redeploy with the national guard. But when 30-year-old Noah Pippin vanished inside Montana’s remote Bob Marshall ...
The West Will Rise Again
Their fathers were titans. Their family defined conservation in the West. Now, with two Senate seats up for grabs, cousins Mark and Tom Udall have the chance to bring green leadership to Washington...
The Coldest Ride
Fall in Yakutat, Alaska, means camouflage, salmon, and the sweetest swells on the far north shore
Earth Shakers: The Counter-Enviro Power List
With "the death of environmentalism" being debated across the land—and with the mainstream movement under siege from without and within—it's time to meet the winning side in America's new...
Eruptus Interruptus
Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! Thar she... might blow! When Mount St. Helens, America's very own all-natural weapon of mass destruction, threatened to go postal again, 24 years after her last...
Aces Wild
They've paid their dues, mastered their game, and pushed the limits. And this year, they've been blowing our minds. Meet the new icons of cool.
Dry Run on the River of Sorrows
The Dolores used to be one of the mightiest whitewater rivers in the West. Then politics and dry weather got in the way. But neither drought nor dam nor partisan bickering can stop Mark Sundeen from...