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Beyond the conflict at Buffalo Creek
Restoration, wilderness, and the lessons of Muir and Pinchot
 • John Clayton
The last angry typist
Arthur Carhart: A portrait of the environmentalist as an old man
 • John Clayton
Bob Marshall, Edward Abbey, and the art of life as work
Two wilderness icons and the odd way I followed them
 • John Clayton
Where should we pay tribute to wilderness?
Commemorating artifacts, ideas, and wilderness-as-place
 • John Clayton
The end of wilderness solitude
In Part 3 of the Solitude Trilogy, maybe we’re all living in Edward Abbey’s world—and maybe that’s not a good thing
 • John Clayton
Who is wilderness solitude for?
In Part 2 of the Solitude Trilogy, we look at how wilderness and solitude got tied together
 • John Clayton
I failed at wilderness solitude
In Part 1 of the Solitude Trilogy, our hero tackles nature alone, with unexpected results
 • John Clayton
Johnny Appleseed, businessman and spiritualist
Why do we know his legend? (Related: What was his relationship to nature?)
 • John Clayton
Origins of Howard Zahniser’s wilderness crusade
How a Bighorn Mountain adventure shaped the 1964 Wilderness Act
 • John Clayton
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wilderness cosmology
In Montana, the writer saw wilderness as a way to critique society
 • John Clayton
Advertising wilderness
How advertising shaped the national park system, and whether wilderness needs a market
 • John Clayton
Flimsy metal baskets
What does it mean for people to live in wilderness?
 • John Clayton
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