THE GREAT OUTDOORS FUND, USDA FOREST SERVICE AND YAMAHA MOTOR CORPORATION USA UNVEIL A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT TO ENHANCE CAMPING EXPERIENCES IN COLORADO. Read more …
Gunnison Public Lands Initiative sets the stage for regional coalitions to accomplish big things . Read more …
S.241 and its companion bill H.R.823, The Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act, sponsored respectively by Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO-02), will protect approximately 400,000 acres of public land in Colorado. Read more …
“We’ve always looked below the surface for our wealth and our prosperity, and we should be looking on the surface,” said Sarah Shrader, “Or at least doing both.” Read more …
“When the parking lot fills, our visitors go into, I call it the reptilian brain mode, where they create a spot,” Bonnell (a Jefferson County ranger) said. “It may not be a safe spot, it may not be a spot that makes sense, but they do it.” Read more …
See how people’s perspectives view and can effect conservation in the West in Colorado College’s Conservation in the West Poll.
While the structure and placement of these offices within their respective state governments vary, collectively, they point to the outdoor recreation economy’s increasing significance. Read more …
Both industries have impacts on land and rural communities, but “we can coexist” in pursuit of economic diversity, say promoters of recreation and energy. Read more …
Some recent editorials have expressed surprise at Western Republican Senators Steve Daines’ (MT) and Cory Gardner’s (CO) support for a bill to permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which safeguards natural areas and has created parks, trailheads, and outdoor recreation access in all 50 states across the country. Read more …
Biologists used to count over 1,000 head of elk from the air near Vail. The majestic brown animals, a symbol of the American west, dotted hundreds of square miles of slopes and valleys. But when researchers flew the same area in February for an annual elk count, they saw only 53. Read more …