This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration By the time the three hikers called for help from a rocky face on Mount Shasta in Northern California, they'd made a series of bad decision... See more
Scan almost any corner of a U.S. map, and you'll find a National Wildlife Refuge. In the far north, there's the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a swath of Alaska protecting some of the nation's remaining caribou herds, chunky salmon, and Arctic grayling.... See more
By the time the three hikers called for help from a rocky face on Mount Shasta in Northern California, they'd made a series of bad decisions. They didn't bring enough food, and they'd overestimated their fitness. Instead of turning back in late afternoon ... See more
Jess Johnson heard the crash before she saw it, and she knew exactly what the sound meant: Yet another vehicle careening down the highway in front of her house had hit a whitetail deer. So Johnson and her friends, who had just lit their grill for a summer... See more
This story was first published by High Country News. Few issues matter more to Wyoming hunter Jeff Muratore than the fate of the public lands — where he tracks elk and deer to feed his family, where he seeks solace and taught his grandchildren to hunt. A ... See more
