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Outdoor Recreation

Protecting the Places We Climb

Phil Powers | Posted 05.22.2013 | Green
Phil Powers

Outdoor recreation employs 6.1 million Americans, and the sector is growing about 5 percent annually. Conservation and access for recreation, including climbing, biking, hiking, and fishing make this economic impact possible.

Americans Spend HOW Much On Outdoor Recreation?

Posted 01.15.2013 | Green

From TakePart's Alison Fairbrother: Americans may have a reputation for being gas-guzzling, resource-burning city slickers, but new research sugges...

Our Business Is Fun: Interview With Randy Hendrickson, Founder of Horizon RV Resorts

Evanne Schmarder | Posted 01.14.2013 | Small Business
Evanne Schmarder

Small business owner Randy Hendrickson, president and founder of Horizon RV Resorts, which offers a soup to nuts approach -- from feasibility studies to third-party management services -- to outdoor hospitality property owners and developers

Do Healthy Rivers Make a Stronger Economy? River Recreation, Part II

Zachary Podmore | Posted 12.12.2012 | Denver
Zachary Podmore

Recreation is one of the few uses of water that doesn't require pumping water out of our rivers. Instead, it encourages making our rivers as accessible, clean, and as naturally beautiful as possible.

Big Gore Canyon: Colorado River Recreation, Part I

Zachary Podmore | Posted 12.04.2012 | Denver
Zachary Podmore

In the morning, we slide our kayaks into the Colorado River and paddle towards the rapids of Gore Canyon. The surface of river, slowly meandering its way through flat ranch lands near the town of Kremmling, is alive in the early light.

Death by Familiarity

Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D. | Posted 04.28.2012 | Sports
Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.

The more familiar you are, the more you think you know it and the less you pay attention to it. A group of skiers in Washington State over the weekend probably should have paid more attention. Three of them are dead.

'The Greatest Attack On Sportsmen In 100 Years'

AP | By CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 08.22.2011 | Denver

DENVER -- A fledgling outdoorsmen's group released a broad agenda Wednesday aimed at giving conservation-minded sportsmen's groups a united voice befo...

Outdoor Industries: Feeling the Heat from Climate Change

Mindy S. Lubber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Mindy S. Lubber

Outdoor pursuits will be among the first activities widely altered by climate change. And now, many of the $730 billion outdoor industry's largest companies are getting vocal about it.

Crystal Renn is Big on Beauty and Brains: Why This Positive Plus-Size Model is Poised to Change Fashion

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Marissa Bronfman

Gorgeous, opinionated and wise beyond her years, plus-size model Crystal Renn is shaking some sense into the fashion industry and showing everyone that bigger is indeed beautiful.

Obama's Green Team Learns from Americans about Conservation

Bill Meadows | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Bill Meadows

As the Obama administration travels across the United States learning about local conservation successes, they will hear from local communities about the importance of growing our shared public lands and protecting our wild places.

Con Games: The Bowl

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Michael Conniff

Highland Bowl hangs there above you wherever you are in Aspen, and if you're a skier the shadow is longer still. The purity of it here at the peak of Aspen Highlands is all but beyond description.

The Sunny Side of This Weekend's Snow Storm

Sharon Duke Estroff | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Sharon Duke Estroff

Get your cubs out of hibernation and into the happy, healing sun this weekend with these cool snow day activities.

A Sickly Smell From the Colorado ORV Program

David Petersen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
David Petersen

A significant number reckless riders of off-road vehicles continue to venture off marked trails to cause extensive damage to watersheds and fish and wildlife habitat.

To Pay or Not to Pay

Chantal Unfug | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Chantal Unfug

Is Denver an aberration for trying to host admission based events in parks or an aberration for not?