America’s Great Outdoors Listening Session, Albuquerque, NM July 17, 2010 Post by Don Boyd There were about 400 participants in the Great Outdoors Listening Event I attended in Albuquerque on July 17. A youth involvement forum had been held among youth earlier in the day and a pair of teen...

America’s Great Outdoors Listening Session, Annapolis, MD Friday, June 25 2010 Post by Chris Yoder The focus was on the Chesapeake Bay.  In the breakout sessions they had a list of four issues they wanted to discuss, all of them on the theme of how do we get more people...

America’s Great Outdoors Montana Listening Session Bozeman, MontanaWednesday, June 2, 2010 Montana State UniversityPost by Ron Craighead An introductory speech was given by Will Shefolk who works directly under Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior.  The stated purpose of these sessions was to ‘reconnect’ to people and issues regarding wilderness...

America’s Great Outdoors Listening Session, Bozeman, MT June 2, 2010 Blog post by Carolyn Hopper My impression of the “Listening ” session was that it went well.  The 200 or so who attended were in break out sessions after a short film which restated the statements in the hand outs...

SUWA Grassroots Leaders Retreat, Moab, Utah May 14-16, 2010 Blog entry by Stephen Trimble We were exhilarated by the setting—Canyonlands Field Institute—nestled against the buttes and spires separating Utah’s Professor and Castle valleys. The La Sal Mountains rose to elegant snowy points, upcanyon, and sunset dramatized the red buttresses of...