Under a pilot program from 2008 to 2011, the Legacy Roads and Trails program got rid of 640 miles of obsolete road, improved 235 miles of usable road, and upgraded 178 miles of trails in Montana. Advocates say the program was among the most successful in the entire Forest Service operation. The pilot program allowed [ more... ]

The Obama administration is proposing a change to the language of the Endangered Species Act that has anyone who’s paying attention worried. The change calls for dropping the requirement to protect the ‘historic’ range of endangered animals. Basically, “…we cannot base a determination to list a species on the status of the species in lost [ more... ]

President Obama was joined by business leaders in the outdoors industry in speaking about his initiative to get more people out into nature. I was a little disappointed that he didn’t wear a fish tie. It’s a fairly interesting clip with most of the people in the audience snapping pictures like they’re at the Today [ more... ]