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National Forests Elemental Series: Water Across the Nation

National Forests Elemental Series: Water Across the Nation

In celebration of National Forest Week, part of our elemental series, we explore Water Across the Nation. Where water flows, life follows. Marking the passage of time, it etches and...

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Chuck Ragan: The Flow

Chuck Ragan: The Flow

Music would still be his mistress but being outdoors on the water was his true love. His business, Chuck Ragan Fly Fishing, introduces others to the haunts he knows so...

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Filson in the Field: Packrafting the Remote Waters of Alaska

Filson in the Field: Packrafting the Remote Waters of Alaska

The state of Alaska tends to breed ideas larger than life. There is just something about the sheer amount of untrammeled wilderness there that seems to spark a fire in...

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How to Shrimp in the PNW

How to Shrimp in the PNW

Ask 100 shrimpers how it's done and you'll probably get 100 different answers. Personal preferences and secret tricks aside, we can all agree that there's nothing quite like pulling up...

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How to Carve a Paddle

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How to Carve a Paddle

Carving your own wooden paddle is rewarding beyond the satisfaction that comes from making something that will last a lifetime with your own hands. "seeing a paddle emerge from a...

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Impact of the Rio Grande: Lifeline of the Southwest

Impact of the Rio Grande: Lifeline of the Southwest

"In 2014, I followed the 1,900-mile-long river course from source to sea by foot, kayak, and canoe. I followed a broken river caught between trying to meet 19th-century ideals with...

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Why the Skagit River Watershed Matters

Why the Skagit River Watershed Matters

Nothing feels small on the Skagit River. It emerges from the Cascade Mountains, the ridgelines rising suddenly and severely, compressing the landscape and framing the view with their immense, sharp...

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Banking on Bailey: Introducing the Filson x Merrell Sandall

Banking on Bailey: Introducing the Filson x Merrell Sandall

Head an hour north of Boise, and you’ll find a stretch of the Payette river that contains some of the world’s most notorious class five rapids. Not many people dare...

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