With friends and family in town earlier this month, it was time to showcase some of the best mountain bike trails in Central Oregon. My friend Tony Barnes, of Vancouver, Washington, brought his ...

A magnet fishing team returns to a swampy lake and uncovers a buried wartime cache with German weapons, a rifle, bayonets, and a late-war pistol. The finds point to retreating forces dumping gear into ...

For appreciators of old-growth trees and unique forest communities, Sky Lake is a bucket list-worthy destination in Mississippi's Alluvial Valley. Officially the Sky Lake Wildlife Management Area (WMA ...

Nearly 40 years after regulators declared Devil's Swamp Lake and surrounding wetlands in East Baton Rouge Parish dangerously contaminated, work to protect the public and restore the environment is ...

A $3.2 million cleanup effort meant to limit exposure to cancer-causing PCBs at the Devil’s Swamp Lake Superfund site near Baton Rouge could begin soon, thanks to an agreement between companies now ...

There’s no shortage of beautiful lakes to explore in Hampton Roads, from Stumpy Lake in Virginia Beach to Lake Meade in Suffolk and Waller Mill near Williamsburg. But, believe it or not, those are all ...

Area paddlers can disappear into a mystical, magical swamp that's close to home. That is, when conditions are right. Ample rain most springs brings high water to Beaver Lake, filling it to the brim.