Colorado takes action to prevent abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells which will protect #OutdoorRecreation experiences
Abandoned oil and gas wells prevent rural towns from diversifying their economies away from extraction to other sustainable economic drivers such as outdoor recreation. Many communities in Colorado were founded for the purpose of resource extraction. From mining and...
The Civilian Climate Corps: Putting people back to work by improving outdoor recreation access
Similar in scope to the employment environment following the 1933 Great Depression and subsequent creation of Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), President Biden’s new Civilian Climate Corps Initiative will give people jobs and tackle important work on...
Access to more public land—not less—will help communities grow after the pandemic
National monuments continue to contribute significantly to Utah’s economy and plans are already being made to get outside as much as possible in 2021. Communities are preparing for a deluge of visitors to local public lands and national parks. And many local outdoor...
After Years of of Hard Work, The Land and Water Conservation Fund Now Has Full and Permanent Funding
In a move that will reverberate for generations to come, on July 22 the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed The Great American Outdoors Act with a bipartisan vote of 304 to 105. This historic legislation provides the necessary funding for the nearly $22...
Report: potential revenue of wasted #gas & #methane on federal & tribal lands in 2019 = $509M, enough to meet the yearly needs of 2.2M households https://t.co/4an36K3yAE & comes as @BLMNational is accepting comment on proposed rule to reduce #methane waste https://t.co/xwKLflo329
