For more on the Independence Pass Foundation or to volunteer, visit http://www.independencepass.org. For the first time in more than 50 years, a trip to Mountain Boy ...

The pride of the pack train is the unusual gear they can haul, everything from bundles of cedar shingles and 6-foot-long, 8-inch-diameter fence posts to wood stoves and gabions used for soil control. ...

The timeless image of a lone forest ranger winding through a mountain pass, trailing a string of pack mules is as ingrained on Western culture as the cowboy riding into the sunset. Next to Smokey the ...

ASPEN — For the first time in more than 50 years, a trip to Mountain Boy Basin will reveal only wild, pristine wilderness, thanks to the massive and diverse efforts of prison inmates, local children ...

The Forest Service is taking a team approach to restoring a fire lookout on a peak overlooking the Clark Fork River. Although many helping hands are involved, the heavy lifting was done last week by a ...

Nothing takes modern big-game hunters to their roots more quickly and efficiently than a wilderness-bound pack string. Wall tents, wood stoves and saddle sores are part of a Western autumn tradition ...

A project that could have taken weeks with human power has been greatly shortened with the help from some furry friends from Wyoming. For the past week, local Forest Service managers partnered with ...

There were three options: Use human labor to hike in lumber to repair a bridge along the Gore Range Trail, use mules to hike it in, or don't repair the bridge at all. Thankfully (for the trail teams) ...