New Funding For America’s Green Infrastructure
The Great American Outdoors Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure and Jobs Act both provide much-needed funds for public lands.
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Shoulder-Season Mountain Biking in the Northwest
Photo essay by Aaron Theisen, featuring five photos that depict the beauty and fun of mountain biking during the fall-winter transition.
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Trailhead News: Projects, Public Lands Day, & Volunteer Events
Inland NW trail and conservation news for Sept.-Oct. 2021, including trail projects, Public Lands Day, volunteer projects and events.
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3 Safe Sun Practices To Reduce Skin Cancer Risk
Many Americans lack a basic understanding of skin cancer and sun protection, especially Gen Z and Millennials. To help reduce skin cancer risk, the AAD recommends 3 simple steps when outdoors to #PracticeSafeSun.
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7 Ways to Teach Kids to Love Public Lands
Personal experience and hands-on activities, from camping to Jr. Ranger programs, help children learn the value of America’s public lands.
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Backcountry Lakes of the Pacific Northwest Trail
By Blair Libby A pair of bald eagles moved from ponderosa, to fir, to possibly a spruce, which rose up from corners of the lake as trout lookout towers. After a few explosive wing flaps during liftoff, they would glide, bodies as still as the glassy water that mirrored them. I followed their flight path on the water’s
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Outdoorsy Summer Camps & Schools – 2020
Summertime is for kids to experience outdoor adventure—the hands-in-dirt, skinned knees, messy-hair-don’t-care type of adventure. Here’s our annual list of regional summer camps and nature-based schools that provide unique opportunities for learning about nature, science, and outdoor skills—with something for every child, any age, and every family.
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To E or Not to E: The Ethics of E-bikes
E-bike sales are flying up mountains in gears as high as those of their purely people-powered counterparts wobbling cross-country in granny gears. This thanks to an almost effortless turn of pedals, a couple of decades of battery research and development, and the atomic torque of trillions of electrons that are pushing electrically assisted bicycles to
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Get Schooled Outdoors: Programs Offer Hands-On Learning for Careers Outside
Rock climbing, mountaineering, and ski touring for college credit? Yup! There are classes for these and more in the Mountain Adventure Skills Training (MAST) program at College of the Rockies, in Fernie, British Columbia. This nine-month program teaches students how to become an adventure tourism professional and offers certification in swiftwater rescue, wilderness first responder,
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Whitefish, Montana, Winter Wonderland
Come January, winter stoke is soaring—but so is the treacherousness of mountain passes and the increase of carbon footprints as winter sports enthusiasts chase fun-hog status. Fortunately, Amtrak’s Empire Builder offers daily service to Whitefish, Mont. from Seattle, Wenatchee, Spokane, and Sandpoint. Board the train in the afternoon or late evening and wake up in
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