One of my favorite places in the outdoors has multiple trails, several different habitats, and offers spectacular views of a major snow-capped peak. There is an old-growth forest where, among the mossy trees, you are serenaded by the rat-ta-tat-tat of pileated woodpeckers, hoots from barred…
WASHINGTON, D.C. β Bending to public outcry, including a strong stance by Next 100 Coalition members, the Department of the Interior is expected to renew the βEvery Kid in a Parkβ program that helps ensure equitable access to U.S. public lands for fourth graders and…
WASHINGTON, D.C. β The Next 100 Coalition of more than 50 civil rights, environmental justice, conservation, and community organizations on Monday sent a letter to the president expressing concern with the ambiguous guidance and lack of transparency in the Executive Order Review of Designations Under…
Note: The following is a statement from the Next 100 Coalition, of which The Trail Posse is a member. Washington, D.C. β Today, the President signed an Executive Order directing the administration to review national monuments over 100,000 acres designated after 1996 under the Antiquities…
Presidential Memorandum, Monument Designations set blueprint for diversity, inclusion, access in public lands as a new normal Barack Obama is the reason I met Audrey Peterman, who has been advocating for inclusion and access in U.S. public lands for more than 20 years. When the…
Since Iβve 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. βWe never hung βwhites onlyβ signs at any parks.β βBlack people just donβt like bugs…
