Strict limits on permits means that JMT hikers can expect a solitude wilderness experience, but it does mean that you need to plan ahead. Laura Lancaster The best time to hike the John Muir Trail is ...

entering one of the most beautiful sections of the Inyo National Forest which includes both the Ansel Adams and John Muir Wilderness. The JMT goes through lake filled valleys and steep mountain ...

Many Americans wanted to preserve the wilderness for its own sake. Naturalist John Muir wrote several articles defending conservation of forests, "not only as fountains of timber and irrigating ...

John Muir's Keys Naturalist who played a key role in the creation of U.S. national parks and national forests.Overcame: Tremendous opposition to protecting the most important wilderness areas ...

“We move every day — we’re backpacking,” said Jackson Fitzsimmons, a Sierra National Forest wilderness ranger who lost his ...

“The Wild Robot,” to her second-grade students at John Muir Elementary School. The story tells the tale of a robot who is lost in the wilderness on a remote wild island. The robot ...

A lone backpacker heads toward a campsite at Silver Pass Lake, located along the John Muir Trail about 8 miles from Edison Lake in the Ansel Adams Wilderness. MAREK WARSZAWSKI [email protected] ...