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The Koch Brothers own the company that makes Cordura and its family of durable nylon fabrics, which are ubiquitous throughout the outdoor industry

It's up to Republicans to bring it back to life and make it better than ever

The U.S. Coast Guard closes the Potomac River any time President Trump wants to hit the links.

Maine’s coast is one of the last border disputes between Canada and the United States.

Spend any time on Twitter and you'll quickly conclude that everyone is outraged about everything. It's time we put that energy to use in the real world.

The Supreme Court nominee wrote a troubling diatribe in 2013 against workers' rights

If the BSA wants to welcome female Scouts, it needs to start now—not next February

A sincere discussion about the ethics, practicalities, and responsibilities of packing heat on the trail

The Time to Vote campaign, which includes almost 150 companies, gives employees time off to vote in the midterm elections

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will offer up nearly 4 million acres of public lands for lease this year, much of it for dirt cheap

P.T. Wood owns a gin and whiskey distillery in Salida, Colorado, where he also happens to be the mayor

Think the death of specialty outdoor retail has been foretold? Don't let your favorite local shop go down without a fight.

Nominee Raymond David Vela seems to care about making our national parks more accessible

Last week, the Bureau of Land Management released plans that would have opened up thousands of acres of former national monuments to mining and drilling—despite Zinke's promises to the contrary

‘Hike the Line’ follows hikers Tenny Ostrem and Claire Wernstedt-Lynch as they hike from California to the Gulf of Mexico.

In her adventure memoir, Kate Harris offers a fresh new voice on what it means to be an explorer in the 21st century

Despite promises from the president and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, the BLM wants to open up hundreds of thousands of acres in Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments for companies to drill and mine

Last week, the Interior Secretary outlined his ideas on what causes wildfire. Here's what he's right and wrong about.

Amid a frenzied conversation over shrinking public lands, Native Americans run hundreds of miles to honor—and take back—the land that's sacred to them

Keeping an eye on the interior secretary's latest ethical blunders and questionable public lands policies

America's proudest tradition should never be used as an excuse for anti-American politics

A new bill would strip the president of designating new monuments in the state—an idea that has already come to fruition in Alaska and Wyoming

The president's decision wasn't an assessment of whether the Hammonds deserved their sentence or not, it was an endorsement of the Bundy family's movement

She helped the Navy, the White House, and the entire federal government become more eco-friendly. Now Kate Brandt is tackling her most ambitious sustainability project yet.

From filmmaker Jamie Hancock, ‘Day Zero’, tells the chilling tale of Cape Town, South Africa’s current water crisis.

Citizens of the island nation Kiribati have already had to evacuate their homes due to sea-level rise.

The Green Mountain State announced a $10,000 grant to cover moving expenses for new remote-working residents. Time to pack your bags.

The 33-year-old started running as a way to cope with depression. Then she launched Harlem Run. Now she wields the sport as a tool to help the whole country.

In this scene from Blue Heart, the women of Kruscica village in Bosnia protest the development of a new dam on their beloved river.

Nonfiction works by John Branch and Eliza Griswold document changing ways of life in Utah and Pennsylvania

He reversed an Obama-era order that raised hourly pay to $10.10, but few in the guiding industry—including guides—are complaining

The Democratic candidate and son of the Burt's Bees founder is seeking a win in Maine's rural 2nd District with a simple message: The recreation economy can bring back jobs

Marinel de Jesus, writer at 'Brown Gal Trekker' and a CEO, invites outdoor industry leaders to take concrete measures toward promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion

The secretary of the interior was once a loud supporter of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Now he wants to almost completely defund it.

The Minnesota basketball coach launched Asiya, a brand with the goal of making playing sports better for hijab-wearing women everywhere

The last two tree sitters fighting the 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline project in Jefferson National Forest surrendered to police. Will others take their place?

Rob Katz, CEO of Vail Resorts, on why smart, ethical immigration policies are required to keep ski towns healthy throughout the United States. Politicians, listen up.

Some see economic windfall. Others, a carbon bomb.

Political and journalistic pressure foiled Interior Department attempts to censor a climate report. Not surprisingly, its findings aren't good.

In 1965, mountaineer Jim Whittaker guided Senator Bobby Kennedy up his father’s namesake mountain, Mt. Kennedy.

Fieldwork in far-flung places is exciting and rewarding—until it's not. Only recently have insiders—mostly women—been able to start changing the culture.

It's not just a hatred of the federal government that motivates the scofflaws—it's their deeply held faith

The Boy Scouts of America is dropping the gendered pronoun and allowing girls to be members. The Girl Scouts better adapt fast if it wants to stay relevant.

What the Bundy family's battle with the federal government really means for the future of public lands in the American West

What does the end of the 105-year partnership mean for Scouting's future?

The park police typically help keep the peace at urban monuments, but the Department of Interior is sending a group to the U.S.-Mexico border to chase smugglers. Sort of.

As it opens membership up to girls, the 107-year-old organization will now be known as Scouts BSA

Last December, when the Trump administration announced its decision to shrink Bears Ears National Monument, a crack team of Native American attorneys armed themselves with a lawsuit that ensured tribal voices will lead the legal battle to overturn it. Abe Streep reports on a historic case that will reverberate for generations.

Is REI more powerful than the NRA?

[Insert exasperated Jean-Luc Picard meme]

This summer, the First-Time Camper program aims to bring 65 families who have never camped before into the woods

He is one of the most scandal-plagued interior secretaries in history. But even so, he can probably get away with a lot more.

Last Week Tonight tackles corruption in the Interior

That's just business as usual in the Trump administration. But despite the interior secretary's asinine comments, there may yet be hope for ground-up change.

A new book by Heather Hansen explores the complicated world of wildland-urban interface firefighting as it unfolded in the Cold Springs Fire near Nederland, Colorado

The Secretary of the Interior's idea to support public lands with oil and mining leases isn't just wrongheaded—the numbers don't add up.

Ryan Zinke is using parts of an Obama administration–era idea that would've drastically changed the DOI. Now it's causing him trouble.

Voters have the power to fix the public lands crisis, but first we need get smarter about how we fund open spaces

Yet as much as the boycott’s flaws undermine its likelihood of success, they also suggest a viable roadmap for the outdoor industry's future as a political force

Internal documents suggest Utah and federal officials failed to take into account Native concerns and input as they downsized the national monument

Record low snowfalls have made national news, but it came as no surprise for the characters in the End of Snow, from Day’s Edge Productions.

A legal complaint says the three leaders are in violation of a 20-year-old law and casts doubt on whether they have any authority at all

After nine years and two presidents, it's not big environmental groups with the best shot at defeating the pipeline—it's a bunch of well-organized locals.

A new report suggests that the answer is no, which could impact hunted species across the U.S. and Canada

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation works with local property owners and agencies to buy land and turn it over to the public

I’m also an avid sportsman and one of my firearms is an AR-15. So you might be surprised that I've never joined the NRA—nor ever will.

The real fight to protect America’s public lands isn’t in Utah. It’s right outside our biggest cities.

In case you weren’t aware of how oppressive bright orange is as a safety color, don’t worry. No one else was, either.

Seventeen adventurers three dogs, and a film crew descended on southeast Utah to run a 250-mile relay race across the desert to honor the native messengers who used to travel this landscape on foot.

Brands, activists, and politicians gathered at the start of the Outdoor Retailer trade show to rally around public lands

Would you a take a year of your life to get outside, work hard on public lands, and learn some skills, for a minimal stipend? Some members of Congress—from both parties—are betting you might.

Aspen Ski Co’s vice president of sustainability on embracing change—and density—in our remote, idealized hamlets

Cliven Bundy's claim to federal land has only whiffs of legal merit. This lawsuit is all about politics.

With his office's insult-laden response to the resignation of the NPS Advisory Board, the secretary proves that, like his boss, he's not above mudslinging

The pro climber caught flak on Instagram for straying into politics—but he says it's essential for athletes to speak out

Our Last Refuge tells the story of the Badger-Two Medicine and the decades-long struggle to protect this homeland of the Blackfeet Nation from oil and gas development. 

The interior secretary's idea to organize public land by watershed was a great idea when it was first voiced a century and a half ago. But it won't work today.

On the border between Russia and Finland, a band of Finnish soldiers are preparing to defend the country if the Bear decides to charge

If the government shuts down tomorrow, Ryan Zinke wants to keep these lands open. What that actually looks like is at best confusing and at worst dangerous.

A plan to bring some 200 bears to Washington's North Cascades was reportedly stopped by the Department of the Interior, jeopardizing the species' recovery.