COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — There is a place for outdoorsy women, or those looking to try it, in Columbus. The Women’s Initiative for Learning and Discovery (WILD) offers women’s-only backpacking trips, ...

Living in the land of fleece and Suburus, where it’s perfectly normal to see a cubicle dweller wearing hiking shoes in the office, it sometimes feels like everyone in the Pacific Northwest can pitch a ...

As a young girl growing up in Cincinnati, Tiya Miles experienced the positive impact that being outdoors can have on a child. In a grassy meadow just beyond the edge of her neighborhood, she had a ...

In her new book, the historian Tiya Miles shows how formative outdoor experiences helped diverse women — from Harriet Tubman to Indigenous athletes — transcend prescribed social and gender roles. By ...

A few weeks into a medical school project in Bethel, Alaska, Eric Weiss, MD, got a call in the middle of the night from Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. Eric Weiss, MD The caller, a Native American ...

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 ...

The article on the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Act (HCN, 3/3/03: The Wild Card) gave readers the impression that, until recently, conservationists always advocated multi-area wilderness ...