This might be a bit in the weeds for LGM readers, who at least in the comment section seem like the type of people who generally don't go outside much, forget about long hikes in our wilderness areas. But the issues brought up here are...
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If you are me, you'd rather me in some awesome wilderness area hiking around than, well, about anything else. Meanwhile, in the three years I lived in Texas, I never.
Good move here on the part of the Biden administration and let's hope there's a way to move this toward permanence so that the next Republican administration can't just undo.
David Nye is one of our top historians of technology and he has a new book out on American landscapes and the greater political division over them. This is a rather lengthy excerpt that I found really quite interesting. One of the stories of the...
The Democratic trifecta can lead to some great things. That includes a big public lands bill that's been in the making for a long time. It's actually a series of.
Fresh off a two-decade effort to eviscerate the national monuments on Utah's public lands, the state's Republican lawmakers are engaging in a deeply cynical attempt to create a few small.
I am very happy to see my senator, Sheldon Whitehouse, introduced the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, into the Senate. This would protect 23 million acres of roadless lands as wilderness through the region, providing the large-scale protections necessary to keep species viable in this...
This piece on the threat of a large copper mine to Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is a sign a failure in the larger wilderness debates, which is not.
This is the grave of Howard Zahniser: Howard Zahniser was the long-time head of the Wilderness Society and the architect of the 1964 Wilderness Act, which he dedicated his professional.
This is the grave of Bob Marshall, New York Jewish elite, socialist, forester, and wilderness advocate. A truly fascinating individual, Marshall grew up in the Jewish community of New York and Syracuse, where his father was a constitutional lawyer and champion of getting persecuted Russian...
Conservation biologists are currently in another civil war over the meaning of the field. In short, should conservation be concerned more with humans or should it be concerned more with.
The great environmentalist Martin Litton has died. A radical within what was traditionally a pretty conservative Sierra Club, Litton allied with David Brower to lead the fight to save Dinosaur.