News from the outdoors industry
Faced with rising visitation and shrinking resources, the National Park Service is weighing the idea of requiring reservations at its most popular spots. Zion National ParkZion National Park has a visitor problem. The canyon saw over 4.5 million tourists in 2017 and just doesn’t have the resources to keep up with demand. Now, due to…
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The Navajo Nation and four other tribes are going to court to restore Bears Ears National Monument’s original boundaries. If they fail, it could change American public lands forever. Grand Gulch is one of the areas eliminated from Bears EarsIf there’s one thing that Ryan Zinke wants you to know about his and President Trump’s…
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Eight percent of employees reported sexual harassment in new survey. The Department of the Interior has fired four senior managers after a survey uncovered pervasive harassment there, Secretary Ryan Zinke announced on Thursday. In a press release, the department said that 35% of its employees reported some type of harassment or discrimination in the survey,…
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Utah representative Rob Bishop got his way on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. Now, he has his sights set on a bigger target: taking apart the law that created them. From the moment that President Barack Obama proclaimed Bears Ears National Monument, Rep. Rob Bishop was among the new preserve’s loudest critics. On December 4,…
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When three parks in Alaska were on the brink of closure, Valdez Adventure Alliance stepped in to help. In 2017, Valdez Adventure Alliance reopened a 7-mile segment of the Shoup Bay Trail for the first time in 5 years.At its best, the Shoup Bay Trail is a sampler of what makes Alaska great. For 10…
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Sensitive and hazardous areas would likely close. A sign informs visitors of a closure at Yosemite during the government shutdown in October 2013.When the federal government shut down in October 2013, the National Park Service was hit hard. With no funding, the agency temporarily shuttered more than 400 parks, from popular outdoors destinations like Yellowstone to the…
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The DOI’s plan to open up more of America’s waters for drilling has conservation groups worried, but the government says their concern is misplaced. Gulf Islands National SeashoreSediment from the Appalachian Mountains washing into the Gulf of Mexico for a million years has sprouted a chain of barrier islands off the coast of Florida and…
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Paul Daniel Smith was reprimanded for pressuring subordinates to let Daniel Snyder sidestep agency rules. Paul Daniel SmithThe new acting director of the National Park Service is a 31-year veteran of the agency who once received a reprimand after an investigation found that he misused his authority by permitting the billionaire owner of an NFL…
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The bill is a response to the White House’s rollback of protections for Utah public lands. The Trump administration plans a drastic reduction of Bears Ears National Monument.Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) joined 16 other democratic senators this week to introduce a bill that would legally codify the boundaries of more than…
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**A quick note: Y’all are weekend warriors, so you can appreciate our desire to make Valentine’s Day more action-packed. To start, we’re going to use Valentine as a verb. Our wit is cutting edge like that. Valentine’s Day was fun when we were kids. Remember the shoeboxes we decorated so all our classmates could deliver…
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