Many people have applauded the Outdoor Retailer Show companies moving their $10 million convention business out of Utah and said that they plan to take their personal outdoor recreation dollars elsewhere this year (“Outdoor rec industry defends public lands,” HCN, 2/20/17). However, our economic role as public-lands lovers is opposite that of the recreation retailers. […]
Linda Blum
Posted inFebruary 28, 2000: Acre by acre
A red herring issue
Dear HCN, In “Experiment takes the cut out of logging” (HCN, 1/17/00: Experiment takes the cut out of logging), Mark Matthews writes, “Some environmentalists who have followed the (Flathead Forestry Project) group fear that, like the Quincy Library Group in Northern California, stewardship contracts put land that is owned by every U.S. taxpayer in the […]