Who is Barry Clausen and why has his two-bit cloak-and-dagger act made so many radical environmentalists, FBI agents, animal rights activists, and conservative ideologues furious?

IPO sluts, "lifestyle" vintners, and eco-radicals bearing lawsuits. Eroding hillsides, glassy-winged sharpshooters, and an imperiled river with dying steelhead. Napa Valley has them all, and each lends its own bouquet of New Economy hilarity, nose-out-of-joint agrarian rage, and NIMBY intolerance to wine country's unique, full-bodied blend of environmental poli

Floating through class V whitewater and grizzly country in the shadow of Mount McKinley

Rediscovering Antarctica

Churchill, Canada, Isn't Just for the Bears

Is it ever too late to become the caring parent you thought you could be? To find out, one man went in search of his adopted manatee—only to discover the many injustices that humankind has heaped upon these hapless marine mammals. And when Junior is fat, slow, and endangered, family values are nothing more than an easy way to break your heart.

Surrounded by a staggering array of hazardous waste, toxic emissions, chemical pollutants, and lethal military experimentation, the Goshute tribe of Utah decided to do the logical thing and offer up its reservation as a dump for 40,000 metric tons of highly radioactive nuclear fuel. The neighbors are very upset.

A noisy controversy roils the quest to catch the big one

So is adventure racing pure competition, or just a grueling way to grab TV ratings?

Carl and Lowell Skoog are blazing virgin trails in the backcountry's wild white yonder

Does wilderness therapy help troubled kids? After a gang of teenagers staged a violent mutiny in the badlands of Utah, we joined the search for answers.

A crash course in old-growth tree climbing (it's tree hugging's rambunctious younger sibling). Wanna come out and have some deep fun?

Rodeo kayaking's effort to transform itself into a mainstream sport

Deep in South Africa's interior sprawls Kruger National Park, the crown jewel of game preserves with 2,500 lions, 2,750 rhinos, 8,500 elephants, 30,000 zebras, 100,000 impalas...and 650 miles of boundary wire keeping animals in and poachers out. Welcome to the postmodern Eden, where everyone behaves—or else.

Some of the most innovative boats ever built prepare for the fiercest race in sailing history

Once, he rode the smoky ridges about the Umpqua River, a pack of baying hounds at his feet, the bawling of the terrified Ursus americanus ringing through the hills. Once, he was undisputed master of the kill. Once, Ray Hillsman slew a thousand bears. And then one man said, No more.

As the United States prepares to hand over the canal, Panama's wild wonders are ripe for discovery

This year's World Extreme Skiing Championships will feature two types of descent: Hail Mary and Mother of God

The Chiricahua Mountains are as rugged and diverse as the Galápagos but have one big advantage: They're right here at home.

Swing a hammer, light a fuse, and let the dams come tumbling down. So goes the cry these days on American rivers, where vandals of every stripe—enviros and fishermen and interior secretaries, among others—wage battle to uncork the nation's bound-up waters.

He's named for a Stone Age weapon. He may be nuts as a bunny. But sometimes it's nice to have a Neanderthal at your side.

The Great Reinhold Messner unmasks his latest conquest

Can you feel it coming? Heat, hail, snow, rain. Wind, drought, flood, pain. Are you tired of waiting? Then hurry to Bangladesh, where the skies have already broken.

They go to eastern Honduras, the wildest stretch of idyll that our hemisphere has to offer

Dams break and walls of water sweep away cars like matchboxes. Time to call off the shaman.

For 90 million years the turtles have massed to lay their eggs. This time they gathered for their own mass murder…