

Annette McGivney
Annette McGivney is an award-winning author of five nonfiction books and a longtime writer for 国产吃瓜黑料. She is also a contributor to Backpacker, The Guardian, Runners World, and Arizona Highways. Her book won the National Outdoor Book Award in 2018. McGivney is a professor emeritus in Journalism at Northern Arizona University, where she taught courses in investigative reporting and environmental journalism for two decades.
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U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez cited Barrett鈥檚 pattern of terrorizing his victims and a clear lack of remorse as reasons for issuing the maximum penalty
The trial will be followed by a sentencing hearing, scheduled for May 21. Barrett faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.
Federal prosecutors allege that Charles Barrett鈥攁 prominent member of the Northern California climbing community who goes to trial for aggravated sexual abuse next week鈥攊s a serial offender with a shocking history of violence, harassment, and intimidation. An exclusive investigation into his life and alleged actions raises troubling questions about the dangers women continue to face in the outdoors.
A 2022 boating fatality could be a harbinger of more frequent whitewater disasters on a dwindling Colorado River
Last year, Annette McGivney lost her beloved yellow Lab, Sunny, and was overwhelmed by sadness. Since then she鈥檚 built a new life with a challenging rescue dog, and she鈥檚 learned a lot about the healing power of human and animal bonds.
When my yellow Lab died last spring, I was flattened by an overwhelming sadness that鈥檚 with me still. And that鈥檚 normal, experts say, because losing a pet is often one of the hardest yet least acknowledged traumas we鈥檒l ever face.
Our country鈥檚 open spaces are a sanity-saving antidote for this writer
A scandal over radiation exposure at the national park is the latest weapon employees have used against each other in a perpetually dysfunctional workplace
Grand Canyon National Park superintendent Christine Lehnertz notified park employees on March 14 that she was resigning, effective March 31. This comes weeks after a four-month investigation turned up no wrongdoing and found a series of 2018 allegations against her to be "unfounded."
For decades, the staff of Grand Canyon National Park has lived with a culture of bullying and harassment. Can the park's first female superintendent heal the old wounds?
Every day, hundreds of helicopters pass through the lower canyon from the Hualapai Reservation. Is Grand Canyon West turning into 鈥淟as Vegas East鈥 and ruining the park鈥檚 wilderness? Or is it saving a Native American tribe?
In this excerpt from Annette McGivney's book 'Pure Land,' the author investigates the brutal killing of a Japanese tourist鈥攁nd things get complicated.
Is Boy Scouts of America doing enough to keep kids safe?
The solo tent has become a roomy palace of personal space
There’s more than one way to take in the adventure and splendor of America’s national parks. So we’re serving up a prize package of SECRET TRIPS—locals’ no-tell favorites, from Acadia to Yellowstone to wildest Alaska—along with a roundup of DREAM TOWNS nearby, the places to eat, drink, and dance after…