Pic: LPT: Be like this tree — adapt! Colorado Trail, Pike NF, CO
National Parks get all the press, but National Forests are the workaday heroes of public lands. Forestry management is a complex and tricky topic, lying at the intersection of environmental conservation, public recreational access, agricultural business interests, and power struggles between local and federal governments. In spite of all this contention, I think it’s cool that I can visit the “Land of Many Uses” and find hiking trails, biking trails, off-highway vehicle areas, wilderness areas where no vehicles are allowed, wildlife refuges, hunting, boating, fishing, timber extraction, and developed and dispersed camping — all within a few miles of one another.
I also like when capitalist/free market forces are employed for good:
Pic: Only you can prevent capital losses. Pike NF, CO
I feel like this marketing campaign may reach people who otherwise wouldn’t listen to an anthropomorphic bear or treehugging hippie rhetoric.
Danger Beyond This Point 