Wilderness

In recent months, thousands of federal workers have been laid off, impacting many agencies across the nation, including the U.S. Forest Service and non-profits like the Selway Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation.

Two childhood friends set out on a 10,000-mile journey through the wilderness, forever changing their lives.

The advocacy group the Wilderness Society has released an interactive map that allows users to locate the wildest places in their communities, even if they are far from formally designated protected areas.

Poet CMarie Fuhrman is Idaho's current Writer in Residence. She uses nature soundscapes to inspire her writing that often focuses on issues affecting native people in the West.

The idea of selling public lands is sacrilegious in much of the West. In Southern Nevada, the affordable housing crisis may be an extenuating circumstance.

When Joyce Fabre saw how many cars were parked at the Iron Creek Trailhead when she pulled in, she knew it would be a busy day. It was a warm, late summer…

Idaho’s backcountry airstrips provide a unique service for pilots flying in and out of remote areas of the state. There are no towers and no record of who…

A lost Boise dog is back home after nine months and a brutal winter alone in the Idaho mountains.Mo, an elderly Chesapeake Bay Retriever, wandered away…

A new book takes a unique look at Idaho’s wild places. Titled “Idaho Wilderness Considered,” the book is more than a field guide to the state’s…

Back on August 7th, President Obama signed a bill that turned 275,000 acres of the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains into wilderness.The law creates three…