The Seattle-based conservation nonprofit focusing on birds has received a lot of attention, including in local and national news media, because it is removing “Audubon” from our organizational name. This is not a helpful place for the spotlight to remain trained. If the focus of…
This is the third travelogue in a 3-part series. Read part 1, “Nez Perce Trail: BIPOCs & Battlefields & Bears.” Read part 2, “Gentrification of Wilderness” As billowy powder flocked the countryside, Sassia and I squeezed through the Bitterroot Mountains, winding astride Gibbons Pass, then…
Here are four examples of how outdoor companies have effectively put their money where their mouths are where DEI is concerned. The first two, done in isolation, can be performative if not part of something like the third and fourth, which drive more significant change….
Since I’ve been writing about race, diversity and inclusion in the outdoors, my inbox and the various comments sections below my stories sometimes read like braying from a Trump rally. “We never hung ‘whites only’ signs at any parks.” “Black people just don’t like bugs…
