Phil Hudspeth scanned the horizon from the cockpit of a patrol boat as it cruised down the Willamette River. He held a stack of large, orange stickers. “We’re out in the Multnomah Channel with the ...

Beneath the peeling paint and rusted decks of derelict boats, there's a deeper human story. Oregon’s waterways face a crisis as abandoned and derelict boats pile up. Left behind by owners unable to ...

In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...