Here are just a few ways to play — in the rugged wilderness ... Sierra. Some 700 films and TV shows, primarily Westerns, were shot in the nearby Alabama Hills. The museum offers a self-guided ...

Fifty years after the nation established its first wilderness areas, 90 of them dot the Arizona map. Both remote and overburdened, isolated and exploited, wilderness areas remain a conundrum: Are ...

Overlay drought and fire maps on the Sierra Nevada ... more than 15 million acres of wilderness in California alone. That focus on salvaging the remaining wild spaces nonetheless rests on the ...

The weeks after Labor Day are an ideal time to venture into the Sierra. With smaller crowds and the scorching summer temps cooling off, this can be a great window for one last hike or backpack ...

In "How Wild," a new podcast from KALW, Marissa set out across the country to explore the history of wilderness and its ... And I can actually pull out a map. So... ORTEGA-WELCH: This is the ...

Her hunt, just outside the wilderness ... the Sierra Madre to see if he could capture wolves that could be used to start a breeding program. The trapper eventually came back with five wild wolves ...

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 ... lands. Map of the Sierra National ...

The romance of that open road still beckons on a road trip that winds through the high desert, skirting the Sierra Nevada on ... ways to play — in the rugged wilderness and in tiny towns ...