Forest Ridge Park offers wilderness navigation classes to equip hikers with essential outdoor navigation skills.

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SEATTLE --The U.S. Forest Service is proposing permanent new rules that would require media organizations to obtain a permit to film and shoot photographs in more than 100 million acres of the ...

A lone backpacker heads toward a campsite at Silver Pass Lake, located along the John Muir Trail about 8 miles from Edison Lake in the Ansel Adams Wilderness. MAREK WARSZAWSKI [email protected] U.S ...

The U.S. Forest Service announced Thursday it will skirt protections in the Wilderness Act to allow chain saws for trail work this summer in two Southwest Colorado wilderness areas, a decision that ...

The Idaho Panhandle National Forests cover 2.5 million acres, including the Kaniksu, Coeur d’Alene and St. Joe national forests. The revised Idaho Panhandle National Forests management plan, as well ...

Private land "gaps" have been filled as public wilderness in western Colorado. The U.S. Forest Service recently announced 203 acres of inholdings acquired in partnership with the Wilderness Land Trust ...

Sometime next year an official with the White Mountain National Forest will try to answer a complex question: How wild should the wilderness be? The issue is whether to remove – or replace - a ...

After 15 years of deliberations, the U.S. Forest Service announced Tuesday it has approved a management plan for the Colville National Forest that creates about 61,000 acres of new protected ...

A person stands near a puddle in a dark, foggy forest. In 2007, 17-year-old Sarah Stusek woke up at 4 a.m. The lights were mysteriously turned on. Her phone was gone. She looked up to see a man and a ...