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Showing posts with label camping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label camping. Show all posts
Monday, July 27, 2020

National parks getting trashed during pandemic

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A volunteer scrubs graffiti off a rock in the Santa Paul Canyon in Ventura County, Calif. (Time photo by Ellie Mora) Many U.S. national...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Sixteen states open offices to help rural areas cash in on outdoor recreation; most are in West; East targeted

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State Offices of Outdoor Recreation map; click the image to enlarge it. Some states are trying to help spur rural economic growth by o...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

Outdoor recreation sector grew faster than the overall economy in 2017, says Commerce Department report

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Outdoor recreation value added as a percent of state GDP in 2017; map by U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis The outdoor recreation econom...
Wednesday, January 02, 2019

National parks, left open but understaffed during government shutdown over border wall, are being trashed

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A line of cars streamed into Joshua Tree National Park on Saturday despite the federal government's partial shutdown, meaning visito...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Recreation is a key to rural population and economic growth

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"The outdoor recreation industry is a critical engine for the national economy, larger in size than the agriculture and fossil-fuel m...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Survivalists stock up on guns, move to remote Pacific Northwest to await economic collapse

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Todd Savage, a retired Marine, moved to northern Idaho from San Francisco. (Washington Post photo by Matt McClain) Survivalists, mostl...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Reports show economic impact of national parks; White House report has state-level data

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Great Smoky Mountains ( summitpost.org photo) More than 300 million visits were made to national parks in 2015—a record number—accor...
Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Town near Yosemite sees more homeless people; churches accused of attracting them

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A rural town outside Yosemite National Park has seen an increase in homeless people, especially in an area where people can camp outside ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Ken Burns series on national parks repeats on PBS to celebrate National Park Service entennial

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To help celebrate the National Park Service Centennial,  PBS  is rebroadcasting a six-part Ken Burns series on national parks. The series, ...