Outdoor Safety

Relationships

Understanding who is related in the great outdoors matters for safety, decision-making, and emergency response. When groups share clear roles and connections, communication impr...

Outdoor Skills

Someone climbing a tree may do it for work, play, research, or emergency response, and the approach varies with purpose and context. Recreational tree climbing uses ropes and ha...

Environment

Pictures of the Chattahoochee River document a 430-mile corridor from the Blue Ridge Mountains through metro Atlanta to the Florida Panhandle. These images capture urban waterfr...

Wildlife Safety

Cougars, also called mountain lions or pumas, are wide-ranging predators in Washington’s forests, mountains, and rural edges. Although attacks on humans are rare, they shape p...

Safety

Japan is home to two bear species of relevance: the Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicus) and, in parts of Hokkaido, the brown bear (Ursus arctos yesoensis). Black be...