Apr. 9—On a chilly Saturday morning, members of the Wild Horse Plains Back Country Horsemen gathered at Kristy Sheehan's indoor arena in Plains for a comprehensive Horse and Mule Packing Clinic. The ...

There were three options: Use human labor to hike in lumber to repair a bridge along the Gore Range Trail, use mules to hike it in, or don't repair the bridge at all. Thankfully (for the trail teams) ...

The timeless image of a lone forest ranger winding through a mountain pass, trailing a string of pack mules is as ingrained on Western culture as the cowboy riding into the sunset. Next to Smokey the ...

Colyne Hislop, a wilderness packer with the U.S. Forest Service’s Spotted Bear Ranger District, spoke about the virtues of using electric fences to corral horses and mules in the backcountry. (Scott ...