Nature
UST Creative Manager Talks Fatherhood, Societal Pressures, and His Love of the Outdoors
Increasing Diversity in the Outdoors One Hike at a Time
This National Forest in Florida Is a Tropical Paradise
Utah’s Fishlake National Forest Is Magic in the Fall
Preserving Washington’s Shrub-Steppe
Light Painting Under the Night Sky
The Hills Are Alive with the Sounds of Bugs
The Rivers That Come Alive at Night
A Letter to Humanity from Mother Earth
The Fight to Save Louisiana’s Coastline
Meet California’s Best Big-Tree Hunter
Saving the Last Great Super Tuskers
A Reminder of Beauty in this World
Three Waterwomen on Conserving the Ocean
Chasing Down the Northern Lights
Salvage Woodworking Is Green and Beautiful
A Search for Vanishing Dark Skies
Iceland Is Unlike Anywhere Else on Earth
Paddling the Olympic Peninsula
How I Survived a Rattlesnake Bite
Scenes From the Las Conchas Fire
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On June 26, 2011, a massive blaze, likely triggered by a utility line, swept across New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains. It consumed 43,000 acres in the first day alone. We arrived in nearby Los Alamos, the nation’s premier nuclear research laboratory, the following day. Both the lab and the town of Los Alamos are currently threatened by the fire, which is now only two miles away.