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In addition to downhill skiing, Montrose residents enjoy cross-country skiing and snowmobiling in the national forests that abut the town on three sides. In the summer they can hike the challenging trails of the 14,000-ft. San Juan mountains, and camp, picnic and fish blue-ribbon trout streams...
--The biologically richest stretches of ocean are more disrupted than the richest places on land. Continents still have roadless wilderness areas where motorized vehicles have never gone. But on the world's continental shelves it is hard to find places where boats dragging nets haven't etched tracks into sea...
Whether climbing Alaskan glaciers or guiding Teddy Roosevelt through Yosemite National Park, left, Scottish-born John Muir saw wilderness as something quasi-spiritual, where "tired, nerve-shaken, overcivilized people" could find renewal. As a nature writer and the Sierra Club's founding president, he argued eloquently for preservation, as when...
As a young forester in the U.S. Southwest, Aldo Leopold shot a wolf. Reaching the mortally wounded animal, he recalled in his influential A Sand County Almanac, he watched "a fierce green fire dying in her eyes" and had a change of heart. Discarding the forest-exploitation ideas of his...
These days Britain's Prince of Wales is still considered a tad eccentric: after all, who in his right mind would have lost the love of the fairy-tale Princess Diana? But increasingly, Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor (who is not only Prince of Wales but also, inter alia, Duke...