I’ve been fortunate in my life to climb in some of the most spectacular areas in the world, including the Andes, Alps, Himalayas and Hindu Kush. Yet, whenever I come home to Colorado, I find ...

Many summer visitors to Summit County, and even some locals, don’t fully understand what a “wilderness area” is. Is it any undeveloped land, part of the national forest, a federal or state park? And ...

Editor's Note: This article on the East Fork Wilderness Area is the sixth in a series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of federal legislation to create nine new federal wilderness ...

We should all be deeply concerned about the most recent challenge to the integrity of America’s national forests — the proposed repeal of the 2001 U.S. Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

America will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the National Wilderness Act, the landmark law that confers the nation’s highest protection on millions of acres of federal land, on Tuesday. It took ...

I have lived, worked, and advocated for wilderness in Colorado for 45 years. I am also an avid climber, having summited Mount Everest, each of the other Seven Summits, all the Colorado 14ers, and 500 ...

This article on the Lower Buffalo Wilderness and the Leatherwood Wilderness is the 12th and final in a series that began a year ago to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the signing of federal ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. (KRQE) – Hundreds of thousands of acres of land in New Mexico are celebrating a birthday of sorts. In 1924, on June 3, the U.S. government designated 755,000 acres as a “wilderness” ...