Nature

UST Creative Manager Talks Fatherhood, Societal Pressures, and His Love of the Outdoors

Increasing Diversity in the Outdoors One Hike at a Time

This National Forest in Florida Is a Tropical Paradise

Utah鈥檚 Fishlake National Forest Is Magic in the Fall

Preserving Washington鈥檚 Shrub-Steppe

Light Painting Under the Night Sky

The Hills Are Alive with the Sounds of Bugs

The Rivers That Come Alive at Night

A Letter to Humanity from Mother Earth

The Fight to Save Louisiana’s Coastline

Meet California’s Best Big-Tree Hunter

Saving the Last Great Super Tuskers

A Reminder of Beauty in this World

Three Waterwomen on Conserving the Ocean

Chasing Down the Northern Lights

Salvage Woodworking Is Green and Beautiful

A Search for Vanishing Dark Skies

Iceland Is Unlike Anywhere Else on Earth

Paddling the Olympic Peninsula

How I Survived a Rattlesnake Bite
Scenes From the Las Conchas Fire
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On June 26, 2011, a massive blaze, likely triggered by a utility line, swept across New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains. It consumed 43,000 acres in the first day alone. We arrived in nearby Los Alamos, the nation’s premier nuclear research laboratory, the following day. Both the lab and the town of Los Alamos are currently threatened by the fire, which is now only two miles away.