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A Patagonia on the Back		04 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
A Patagonia on the Back Gearheads have reason to feel smug about their Patagonia fleeces these days. Once again, the company appears among Fortune Magazine's top 100 places to work in the U.S. -- and this time it moved up 17 places in the rankings, to number 41. The company sold $223 million worth of outdoor gear last year, but it's not just the money t ...
Topics: business, California, commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Tijuana Ass		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Tijuana Ass For decades, raw sewage from Tijuana has flowed into the Tijuana River, north through the United States, and into the Pacific Ocean, violating U.S. clean water standards. Efforts to clean up the waste have bogged down in the double-bureaucracy that plagues cross-border negotiations, with fully one dozen Mexican and U.S. mun ...
Topics: health, Mexico, outdoor recreation, Pacific Ocean, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Lost at Sea		07 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Lost at Sea In the midst of an expedition to document the impact of global warming and pollution on the Amazon Basin, America's Cup champion Sir Peter Blake was shot and killed yesterday, when pirates boarded his research boat at the mouth of the Amazon River. Blake, a 53-year-old native of Auckland, New Zealand, won the yacht race in 1995 and 2000, but h ...
Topics: Amazon, Amazon River, climate, green living, New Zealand, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Flying Fish		04 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Flying Fish A proposal to create marine parks off the coast of California has led to shouting matches between environmentalists and scientists on the one side and the fishing industry and recreational anglers on the other. The proposal would prevent fishing and other human activities in as much as 20 percent of state waters -- a 100-fold increase over the current 0.2 percent protected by state law. Oppo ...
Topics: California, marine life, oceans, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Precedent of the United States		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Precedent of the United States A federal judge dismissed an effort by the timber industry and users of off-road vehicles (ORVs) to overturn former President Clinton's order to designate 328,000 acres of federal land in California's Sierra Nevada as Giant Sequoia National Monument. The plaintiffs challenged the 1906 Antiquities A ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, logging, mining and drilling, outdoor recreation, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

A Snow Job		20 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
A Snow Job In its first major move on air pollution since President Bush took office, the U.S. EPA yesterday proposed the first emissions rules for snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, forklifts, and diesel-powered boats. The proposal, which is particularly aimed at reducing pollution in national parks, would cut total carbon-monoxide emissions from the vehicles by 56 percent and hydrocarbon and nit ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, outdoor recreation, US EPA (all these topics)

Please Don't Feed the Sharks		07 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: outdoor recreation Please Don't Feed the Sharks The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission gave preliminary approval yesterday to a ban on shark-feeding dives. The ban would cover "interactive" shark tours that use cut-up fish bait to lure sharks so that tourists can swim with them. Final approval of the ban could come as soon as November. The commissioners stressed that they didn't think the feeding operations had anything to do with the recent flurry of sh ...
Topics: outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Fees: 'Fie,' Foes Fume		21 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Fees: "Fie," Foes Fume Organizers say more than 200 grassroots groups have sprung up across the U.S. to protest fees for using federal lands. In 1996, Congress launched a pilot program to allow certain national forests, refuges, and other federal lands to begin charging fees for access, parking, and campsites. Congress this year is deciding whether to extend and expand the program. Federal officials say they need th ...
Topics: outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

Dah-ling I Love You, Don't Give My Parks Avenues		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Dah-ling I Love You, Don't Give My Parks Avenues The U.S. National Park Service should stop worrying so much about pleasing visitors and instead focus on protecting natural resources, says an advisory panel. In its report, which is slated to be made public tomorrow, the National Park System Advisory Board says that the agency should "[a]dopt the conservation of biodiversity as a core p ...
Topics: land stewardship, national parks, outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

Dance of the Burning Vails A review of Powder Burn	Florangela Davila	19 Feb 2001	Arts and Minds
A little over two years ago, fire swept through five buildings and four ski lifts in Vail, Colo., causing more than $12 million in damage, upending a small town already reeling from enormous change, and eventually introducing the word ecoterrorism into the mainstream lexicon. Burning down the lodge. Photo: earthliberationfront.com. Indeed, so prominent were the arson fires of 19 Oct. 1998 that the event not only ...
Topics: Colorado, outdoor recreation, wildlife (all these topics)

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