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Outdoor Community Bands Together to Support National Forest Planning
2010-02-26 / Mark Menlove
A coalition of national and regional outdoor groups, including Outdoor Alliance, Outdoor Industry Association, Appalachian Mountain Club, the Mountaineers and the Colorado Mountain Club, recently commented on the Obama Administration’s efforts to create a new U.S Forest Service planning rule. ...
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Outdoor Alliance provides testimony on funding needs for agencies managing public lands
2009-04-28 / Greg Miller
Today Gregory Miller, President of the American Hiking Society and Vice Chairman of the Outdoor Alliance delivered testimony before the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies with budget recommendations for the Forest Servi...
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Congress Fires-Up the FLAME Act
2009-03-10 / Adam Cramer
Today both the House and Senate took decisive, bi-partisan action to get a handle on the cost of suppressing catastrophic wildfires by introducing the FLAME Act (Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act, H.R. 1404). The human-powered outdoor recreation community applauds this cr...
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Outdoor Alliance Submits Testimony on Opportunities to Invest in Public Lands and Waters
2008-12-12 / Mark Singleton
Earlier today Outdoor Alliance submitted testimony to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. This week the committee held a hearing Regarding Investements in Clean Energy and Natural Resources Projects and Programs to Create Green Jobs and Stimulate the Economy (SD-366). In our...
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Outdoor Alliance Comments on Management of Colorado's Backcountry Forests
2008-10-23 / Thomas O'Keefe
This past summer the Forest Service published a proposed rule in the Federal Register for the purpose of establishing a state-specific rule to provide management direction to "collaboratively manage and protect roadless areas within the State of Colorado." Colorado’s Invento...
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Protection for Idaho Roadless Areas Weakened
2008-10-17 / Kevin Colburn
On Thursday, October 16, 2008 the US Forest Service released the Idaho Roadless Rule, which provides management direction regarding road building and resource extraction across 9.3 million acres of public roadless lands in Idaho. The Rule replaces the more protective 2001 Roadless Area Conserv...
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Outdoor Alliance Highlights Need to Protect Colorado's Backcountry Forests
2008-10-08 / Thomas O'Keefe
Colorado's backcountry provides some of our nation’s most spectacular destinations for outdoor enthusiasts including mountain biking through incredible alpine vistas, carpets of wildflowers on the cherished 401 trail outside Crested Butte, the headwaters of our nation’s most iconi...
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Fire Spending to Impact Outdoor Recreation
2008-08-25 / Kevin Colburn
US Forest Service funding for many programs vital to Americans' enjoyment of our National Forests is about to disappear as the agency re-allocates funding for those programs to its fire fighting budget. The Chief of the US Forest Service announced Friday that the agency has depleted its $1.18 bi...
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Outdoor Alliance Speaks Out Against New Forest Planning Rule
2008-04-22 / Kevin Colburn
Washington, D.C. --- Yesterday the US Forest Service introduced its new National Forest System Land Management Planning Rule that will govern the creation and revision of forest plans. Forest plans dictate the types of activities that individual National Forests will allow and support for 15-yea...
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Outdoor Alliance Releases Roadless Film
2008-03-28 / Thomas O'Keefe
Representing the interests of millions of Americans who hike, paddle, climb, mountain bike, ski and snowshoe on our nations public lands and waters, we believe that protection of Roadless Areas is critical to resource protection on some of our nation’s most highly valued landscapes for wild...
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Outdoor Alliances Testifies on Federal Appropriations Priorities
2008-03-13 / Marty Bartels
Today American Canoe Association's Executive Director Marty Bartels testified on behalf of the Outdoor Alliance before the Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies as part of Public Witness Day. The FY2009 Budget Recommendations of the Outdoor A...
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Outdoor Alliances Testifies on Forest Service Use of NEPA Categorical Exclusions
2007-06-28 / Mark Menlove
Today Mark Menlove, Executive Director of Winter Wildlands Alliance, testified on behalf of the Outdoor Alliance before the Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands at the Oversight Hearing on the Forest Service Use of NEPA Categorical Exclusions.
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