The wind blew down a dead limb hanging over the trail just as my uncle and his friend walked under it. It struck my uncle‘s friend in the head. He died from the resultant injuries. I know, it is a bit ...

‘I’ve tried and failed to be a cheerleader for the pure abstraction of wilderness,” Erica Watson writes in “Ghosts of Distant Trees,” her debut essay collection, “but I always find myself drawn back ...

The Fish Creek Fire in Interior Alaska isn't much to look at. It's about 7,500 acres in size, sitting about an hour south of Fairbanks near the twisty Tanana River. The main fire front — the ...