11 Articles
Profiles
Lianna Spooner: preserving traditions & the environment
There's been a revival in the art of "packing" in recent years. Homesteaders Lianna Spooner and her partner Chris Eyer spend part of their year working with the U.S. Forest...
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Python Bounty Hunter: Donna Kalil
The snakes that she’s hunting are the result of a good idea gone wrong. In the 1970s, the first Burmese pythons were imported from overseas as pets. They were a...
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Anne LaBastille: True to Nature
At the age of 31, after securing a small plot of private land studded with mixed spruce, balsam fir, and hardwood forests, LaBastille embarked on a solitary life in the...
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Emily Mullen: Uptown’s Merchant of Joy
Emily tried office jobs, but they never sat right with her, so she went back to her roots and worked as a counselor at a YMCA camp that she attended...
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Jen Judge: Becoming an independent Outdoorswoman
For me, becoming an independent woman in the outdoors has been about mitigating fears. After all, the backcountry is full of potentially scary things. There are wild and unpredictable creatures,...
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Bianca Shannon: A Life Built Around Horses
In New Mexico’s cowboy country, Bianca Shannon turns heads. She rides a one-eyed horse, her silver nose-ring glinting in the sunlight, multiple tattoos peeking out from beneath her Oxford shirtsleeves....
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Inspiring Women of the Pacific Northwest & Alaska
We've all heard the stories of historic women like Amelia Earhart and Nellie Bly. Here we're focusing our scope to our backyard in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, shining a...
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Food & Recipes
Longest Acres Farm: multigenerational Vermont homestead
Deep in the hills of central Vermont lies Longest Acres Farm, a 220-acre, multigenerational homestead. Delivering directly to the consumers, the homestead raises farm-to-table chicken, pork, beef, and other products...
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Amy David: Why I Guide
As a professional skier, Amy David spends most days in the winter backcountry, skiing and snowmobiling while being photographed and filmed for media content. Simultaneously, She leads a backcountry retreat...
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Jessie Allen: More Than Miss Wyoming
Gathering around a campfire, fifteen women join for dinner. We spent the day riding horses to a secluded, high-alpine lake where we practiced yoga, fly fished and hiked to a...
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Working with the Land: Samantha Meldon
She’s up before the sun every day. She rides an old dirt bike out to the pasture to wrangle horses and guide them into the red wood corrals at headquarters....
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