SOMEWHERE IN THE BADLANDS, N.D. -- The canoe had lurched to a halt with an unceremonious "scrok!" on top of a boulder hidden just below the currents that now swirled around us. We were, quite ...

We set off at first light, gliding with the current down the Missisquoi River and almost at once we're in a different world. Road sounds and other markers of modern life drop away, replaced by bird ...

Everyone should spend a week paddling in a canoe, if not every year, at least once in their life. There’s no better way to get to know someone than being stuck in the same boat for days on end, and it ...

There is a rhythm to canoeing that is connected to the natural cycles of the river. You reach forward to dig a paddle into the water and then pull that paddle along the hull of the canoe, propelling ...

“It’s wild country you’re going into,” said Bob Bull, a SERE trainer. Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) is training for people whose work might take them into potentially hostile ...

A ranger at Guy Bradley Visitor Center at Everglades National Park's Flamingo entrance told me flamingos had been seen recently in the Lake Ingraham portion of Cape Sable, the southernmost part of the ...