A Montana hunter who killed a husky dog after mistaking it for a wolf last fall has just been sentenced to six months of probation.    Last September, Amber Barnes was walking through the woods near her home when a “wolf pup,” came at her, allegedly snarling and growling. She shot the animal, skinned it, and [...]

A 30-year-old Bolivian man has defied the odds by surviving 31 days in the Amazon with nothing but a shotgun and a single cartridge. (We can’t wait for this to be turned into a Netflix series.)  On January 25, 2023, Jhonattan Acosta was hunting with four friends when he was separated from his group, reports [...]

Planting trees is great and all, but a recent study suggests it’s time to try some wild new tech if we really want to stop global warming. Some of the solutions will blow your mind. The study in question is a new, first-of-its-kind report led by the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and [...]

Skijoring might just be the weirdest winter sport you’ve never heard of. Imagine a cross between horse-back riding and water skiing—but with hoops, jumps and obstacles involved. And, yes, it’s just as dangerous as it sounds. While skiers are traditionally pulled by horses for competition events, recreational skijoring participants sometimes hitch up to a dog [...]

If you’re ever lost in the wilderness and you think that people are looking for you, the internationally recognized distress signal is three small fires, lit in a triangular formation, which can be spotted from above by rescue craft. On the other hand, if no one knows where you are or you can’t find a [...]

Last Friday, two teenage hikers were rescued after spending 48 hours lost and snowed-in on California’s Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). The two 17-year-olds, Riley Ramirez of Cypress, California and Cole White of Portland, Oregon, were left huddling for warmth amid five-foot snow drifts.  The teens began their excursion on Feb. 26, reports the Palm Springs [...]