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National Trails Day is June 2nd

Former Idaho Trails Association intern, Joe Pickett, works on a trail

Credit: John McCarthy

May 16, 2012 - National Trails Day will be upon us Saturday, June 2nd. The American Hiking Society sponsors this annual event, which celebrates our nation’s 200,000 plus miles of recreation trails. Participants across the country join in to recognize the tremendous opportunities these trails provide in getting folks outdoors. Many National Trails Day activities are organized around volunteer trail cleanup projects, as well as guided hikes and walks. more

Sixty months of turns

Hiking up to snow

Credit: Pete Morton

November 16, 2011 - I was skiing on a glacier in Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park several years ago when Darren mentioned he knew a friend who had skied every month of the year for ten years straight.  I was intrigued.  Colorado’s high elevation mountains (637 ranked peaks over 13,000 feet) offer up enough backcountry snow to ski October through June.  Skiing year round just meant I had to hike to accessible snow in July, August and September.  more

Dinosaur National Monument to bring more jobs, money to Colorado, Utah

Secretary Salazar speaks in Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado

Credit: Sasha Nelson

September 30, 2011 - Communities near northwest Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument are expected to experience a surge in jobs and economic growth in the near future thanks to the reopening of a long-awaited visitor center and exhibit hall that will give visitors an up-close look at the monument’s world-renowned dinosaur bones. Region:  Central Rockies more

Stand up to Congress! Don’t allow industry to buy out our wilderness

Great Blue Heron at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Mass. Refuges would suffer massive cuts under current proposals.

Credit: Ken Andrews, USFWS

September 23, 2011 - How is it that an oil and gas industry rolling in profits can manage to receive government subsidies and tax breaks while conservation programs that are only a small part of the federal budget are threatened with the ax as Congress attempts to balance America’s budget? more