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A few years ago, I tugged on my boots and dove into the brush of a South Country ranch to look for ocelots with documentary wildlife filmmaker Ben Masters. We didn’t see any of the elusive, spotted cats that day, but Masters captured a ton of video of the slinky...

Veteran Austin paddler Jimmy Harvey is heading home, leaving German endurance paddler Freya Hoffmeister to finish her roughly 1,000-mile kayak trek through the western Arctic on her own. Hoffmeister had invited Harvey to join her on the expedition, one segment in her...

​Hotdogs taste better when you order them from a roadside stand shaped like a giant barrel, as I learned when I stopped at the Root Beer Barrel in Douglas, Michigan. The stand, built in the 1950s, closed in the mid-1970s. It stood vacant for 25 years, its wooden...

I’ve long dreamed about watching grizzly bears snatch salmon swimming upstream to spawn, so my recent visit to Katmai National Park in Alaska ranks as one of the best days of my life. After taking a 30-minute bear education class at the park (“Do not cheer when a bear...