Utah’s House of Representatives move to take federal land for natural gas and oil development, setting up a legal showdown.
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Reasons why I love the Winter Olympics more than the Summer Olympics: Location. I remember as a 9-year-old kid watching the Calgary Olympics with great fascination … those frosted Rocky Mountains, that intricate Olympic Village … there was something rugged, mythical, stunning about it. And I felt the same fascination about Nagano (1998), Salt Lake [...]
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Guns, national parks and the future debate about safety cameras in the backcountry.
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Find out what parks are the best location for rock climbers.
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Turquoise water and red rocks blend at Havasu Falls.
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I’m going to try to say this respectfully, but things like this are just upsetting. From the Seattle Post Intelligencer: Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, the man who held up Washington’s Wild Sky Wilderness, has put a “hold” on confirmation of John Jarvis as the new director of the National Park Service. Coburn and Rep. Rob [...]
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If you love national parks and haven’t signed up to watch Tony Farley’s fantastic Beautiful Places in HD podcast on iTunes, c’mon, hop to it. Farley’s camera creates digital images as close to human-eye perfection as I’ve ever seen, and each three- to five-minute podcast has such a serene ambiance, you’d gratefully fall asleep if [...]
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Who would think we at Compass Points could get excited about a zipper? Actually, zippers play an important role in outdoor gear performance whether its waterproof zips on your parka or the sleeping bag zipper locking in your body heat and blocking the chill of a Rocky Mountain night. REI announced its Spring 2010 line [...]
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Loving America’s national parks is easy. But too often, the wilderness that borders our iconic parkland goes overlooked even though the scenery and wildlife can be just as abundant as those inside Yosemite, Zion and others. Shenandoah National Park in northern Virginia is home to some breathtaking views and fantastic trails, but even wilder is [...]
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