Making Playgrounds Real

1. Making Playgrounds Real

By Eric Galatas, Public News Service – CO – Producer March 23, 2021 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Plastic- and rubber-dominated playgrounds in Colorado Springs have added winding pathways with tall grasses, gardens,...
The Outdoor Recreation Economy 2019

2. The Outdoor Recreation Ec...

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released statistics today measuring the outdoor recreation economy for the nation, all 50 states, and the District of Columbia. The new U.S. data show that the outdoor recreation economy...
Lilac

3. Lilac

May Night The spring is fresh and fearlessAnd every leaf is new,The world is brimmed with moonlight,The lilac brimmed with dew. Here in the moving shadowsI catch my breath and sing —My heart is fresh and fearlessAnd over-brimmed with...
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Four Steps to More Time in a Day

Four Steps to More Time in a Day
Four Steps to More Time in a Day Some of those that have responded to our “Don’t Get Outside Enough?” poll on the home page of the eMagazine tell us they simply don’t have...

The First 40 Miles

The First 40 Miles
Heather Legler is a novice backpacker, but her husband Josh began backpacking as a Boy Scout years ago. Heather says: “I haven’t solo hiked the Pacific Crest Trail or sawed off a...

Hike Your Own Hike

Hike Your Own Hike
“Hike Your Own Hike” is the first principle in Francis Tapon’s 2006 book, cleverly titled “Hike Your Own Hike.” Tapon hiked the entire Appalachian Trail, and more, in...

Achieve Great Things

Achieve Great Things
The Bend Bulletin, February 8, tells the story of Ravi Drugan, a double-amputee who won a bronze medal last month at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado. Drugan won his medal in monoskier cross. He lost...

Free Range Kids

Free Range Kids
I was a free range kid. My parents kept an eye on me more than I wanted, but I was still allowed to explore neighborhood parks and bicycle all over without supervision. While I see a lot of kids...

Tinder

Tinder
In 1991, when Otze the 5,000 year old iceman was discovered in the melting ice of an Italian glacier he was carrying tinder in the form of tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius). For millennia explorers,...

Outdoors in Winter

Outdoors in Winter
Sometimes it’s tough to get outdoors and exercise in the winter. Still it’s a great time of the year to enjoy the outdoors. You’ll find that outdoor activities will keep you very...

Playing With Animals

Playing With Animals
While you are enjoying your adventures in the outdoors, you are bound to come across some animals. The kids may want to play with them, but you know they should stay a safe distance away. So,...

Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace
In the early 1980’s the U.S. Forest Service was seeing increased wilderness use and associated impacts on the ground. For the most part, people were not intentionally causing damage, they were...

Pele’s Hair

Pele’s Hair

Pele’s Hair has been appearing in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park . . .

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