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They don't vote. Why are the people most concerned about climate change some of the least likely to show up in November?

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The Koch Brothers own the company that makes Cordura and its family of durable nylon fabrics, which are ubiquitous throughout the outdoor industry

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It's up to Republicans to bring it back to life and make it better than ever

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The U.S. Coast Guard closes the Potomac River any time President Trump wants to hit the links.

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Maine鈥檚 coast is one of the last border disputes between Canada and the United States.

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Spend any time on Twitter and you'll quickly conclude that everyone is outraged about everything. It's time we put that energy to use in the real world.

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The Supreme Court nominee wrote a troubling diatribe in 2013 against workers' rights

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If the BSA wants to welcome female Scouts, it needs to start now鈥攏ot next February

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A sincere discussion about the ethics, practicalities, and responsibilities of packing heat on the trail

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The Time to Vote campaign, which includes almost 150 companies, gives employees time off to vote in the midterm elections

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will offer up nearly 4 million acres of public lands for lease this year, much of it for dirt cheap

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P.T. Wood owns a gin and whiskey distillery in Salida, Colorado, where he also happens to be the mayor

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Think the death of specialty outdoor retail has been foretold? Don't let your favorite local shop go down without a fight.

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Nominee Raymond David Vela seems to care about making our national parks more accessible

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Last week, the Bureau of Land Management released plans聽that would have opened up thousands of acres of former national monuments to mining and drilling鈥攄espite Zinke's promises to the contrary

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In her adventure memoir, Kate Harris offers a fresh new voice on what it means to be an explorer in the 21st century

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鈥楬ike the Line鈥 follows hikers Tenny Ostrem and Claire Wernstedt-Lynch as they hike from California to the Gulf of Mexico.

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Despite promises from the president and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, the BLM wants to open up hundreds of thousands of acres in Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments for companies to drill and mine

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Last week, the Interior Secretary outlined his ideas on what causes wildfire. Here's what he's right and wrong about.

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Amid a frenzied conversation over shrinking public lands, Native Americans run hundreds of miles to honor鈥攁nd take back鈥攖he land that's sacred to them

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Keeping an eye on the interior secretary's latest ethical blunders and questionable public lands policies

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America's proudest tradition should never be used as an excuse for anti-American politics

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A new bill would strip the president of designating new monuments in the state鈥攁n idea that has already come to fruition in Alaska and Wyoming

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The president's decision wasn't an assessment of whether the Hammonds deserved their sentence or not, it was an endorsement of the Bundy family's movement

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She helped the Navy, the White House, and the entire federal government become more eco-friendly. Now Kate Brandt is tackling her most ambitious sustainability project yet.

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From filmmaker Jamie聽Hancock, 鈥楧ay Zero鈥, tells the chilling tale of Cape Town, South Africa鈥檚 current water crisis.

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Citizens of the聽island nation Kiribati have already had to evacuate their homes聽due to sea-level rise.

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The Green Mountain State announced a $10,000 grant to cover moving expenses for new remote-working residents. Time to pack your bags.

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The 33-year-old started running as a way to cope with depression. Then she launched Harlem Run. Now she wields the sport as a tool to help the whole country.

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In this scene from聽Blue Heart, the women of聽Kruscica聽village in Bosnia protest the development of a new dam on their beloved river.

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Nonfiction works by John Branch and Eliza Griswold document changing ways of life in Utah and Pennsylvania

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He reversed an Obama-era order that raised hourly pay to $10.10, but few in the guiding industry鈥攊ncluding guides鈥攁re complaining

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The Democratic candidate and son of the Burt's Bees founder is seeking a win in Maine's rural 2nd District with a simple message: The recreation economy can bring back jobs

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Marinel de Jesus, writer at 'Brown Gal Trekker' and a CEO, invites outdoor industry leaders to take concrete measures toward promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion

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The Minnesota basketball coach launched Asiya, a brand with the goal of making playing sports better for hijab-wearing women everywhere

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The secretary of the interior was once a loud supporter of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Now he wants to almost completely defund it.

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The last two tree sitters fighting the 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline project in Jefferson National Forest surrendered to police. Will others take their place?

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Rob Katz, CEO of Vail Resorts, on why smart, ethical immigration policies are required to keep ski towns healthy throughout the United States. Politicians, listen up.

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Some see economic windfall. Others, a carbon bomb.

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Political and journalistic pressure foiled Interior Department attempts to censor a climate report. Not surprisingly, its findings aren't good.

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In 1965, mountaineer Jim Whittaker guided Senator Bobby Kennedy up his father鈥檚 namesake mountain, Mt. Kennedy.

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Fieldwork in far-flung places is exciting and rewarding鈥攗ntil it's not. Only recently have insiders鈥攎ostly women鈥攂een able to start changing the culture.

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It's not just a hatred of the federal government that motivates the scofflaws鈥攊t's their deeply held faith

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The Boy Scouts of America is dropping the gendered pronoun and allowing girls to be members. The Girl Scouts better adapt fast if it wants to stay relevant.

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What the Bundy family's battle with the federal government really means for the future of public lands in the American West

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What does the end of the 105-year partnership mean for Scouting's future?

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The park police typically help keep the peace at urban monuments, but the Department of Interior is sending a group to the U.S.-Mexico border to chase smugglers. Sort of.

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As it opens membership up to girls, the 107-year-old organization will now be known as Scouts BSA

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Is REI more powerful than the NRA?

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Last December, when the Trump administration announced its decision to shrink Bears Ears National Monument, a crack team of Native American attorneys armed themselves with a lawsuit that ensured tribal voices will lead the legal battle to overturn it. Abe Streep reports on a historic case that will reverberate for generations.

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[Insert exasperated Jean-Luc Picard meme]

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This summer, the First-Time Camper program aims to bring 65 families who have never camped before into the woods

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Last Week Tonight tackles corruption in the Interior

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He is one of the most scandal-plagued interior secretaries in history. But even so, he can probably get away with a lot more.

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That's just business as usual in the Trump administration. But despite the interior secretary's asinine comments, there may yet be hope for ground-up change.

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A new book by Heather Hansen explores the complicated world of wildland-urban interface firefighting as it unfolded in the Cold Springs Fire near Nederland, Colorado

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The Secretary of the Interior's idea to support public lands with oil and mining leases isn't just wrongheaded鈥攖he numbers don't add up.

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Ryan Zinke is using parts of an Obama administration鈥揺ra idea that would've drastically changed the DOI. Now it's causing him trouble.

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Voters have the power to fix the public lands crisis, but first we need get smarter about how we fund open spaces

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Yet as much as the boycott鈥檚 flaws undermine its likelihood of success, they also suggest a viable roadmap for the outdoor industry's future as a political force

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Internal documents suggest Utah and federal officials failed to take into account Native concerns and input as they downsized the national monument

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Record low snowfalls have made national news, but it came as no surprise for the characters in the End of Snow, from Day鈥檚 Edge Productions.

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A legal complaint says the three leaders are in violation of a 20-year-old law and casts doubt on whether they have any authority at all

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After nine years and two presidents, it's not big environmental groups with the best shot at defeating the pipeline鈥攊t's a bunch of well-organized locals.

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A new report suggests that the answer is no, which could impact hunted species across the U.S. and Canada

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The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation works with local property owners and agencies to buy land and turn it over to the public

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I鈥檓 also an avid sportsman and one of my firearms is an AR-15. So you might be surprised that I've never joined the NRA鈥攏or ever will.

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The real fight to protect America鈥檚 public lands isn鈥檛 in Utah. It鈥檚 right outside our biggest cities.

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In case you weren鈥檛 aware of how oppressive bright orange is as a safety color, don鈥檛 worry. No one else was, either.

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Seventeen adventurers three dogs, and a film crew descended on southeast Utah to run a 250-mile relay race across the desert to honor the native messengers who used to travel this landscape on foot.

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Would you a take a year of your life to get outside, work hard on public lands, and learn some skills, for a minimal stipend? Some members of Congress鈥攆rom both parties鈥攁re betting you might.

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Brands, activists, and politicians gathered at the start of the Outdoor Retailer trade show to rally around public lands

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Aspen Ski Co鈥檚 vice president of sustainability on embracing change鈥攁nd density鈥攊n our remote, idealized hamlets

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Cliven Bundy's claim to federal land has only whiffs of legal merit. This lawsuit is all about politics.

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With his office's insult-laden response to the resignation of the NPS Advisory Board, the secretary proves that, like his boss, he's not above mudslinging

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The pro climber caught flak on Instagram for straying into politics鈥攂ut he says it's essential for athletes to speak out

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Our Last Refuge tells the story of the Badger-Two Medicine and the decades-long struggle to protect this homeland of the Blackfeet Nation from oil and gas development.聽

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The interior secretary's idea to organize public land by watershed was a great idea when it was first voiced a century and a half ago. But it won't work today.

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On the border between Russia and Finland, a band of Finnish soldiers are preparing to defend the country if the Bear decides to charge

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If the government shuts down tomorrow, Ryan Zinke wants to keep these lands open. What that actually looks like is at best confusing and at worst dangerous.

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