Recreation
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Outdoor Recreation Roundtable announces Outdoor Workforce Hub
The launch follows a year spent gathering perspectives from ORR members, outdoor industry leaders, and community partners to identify opportunities for the $862 billion outdoor recreation economy and the 4.5 million professionals who support connecting people to the outdoors.
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area recently received a boost in supporting safety for visitors.
The Assistance League of Las Vegas, a non-profit organization that supports under-privileged youth across the Las Vegas Valley, donated 74 children’s life jackets to help Lake Mead National Recreation Area re-stock lifejacket loaner stations around the park in preparation for summer.
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America’s Outdoor Recreation Act Reintroduced in U.S. Senate
It failed to pass Congress despite its unanimous approval in the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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April 2022 New Fire Extinguisher Requirements for Recreation Boats
Vessels model year 2018 or newer must ...
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Career Paths in the Outdoor Recreation Economy
ORR to host webinar, release report on Job-Creating Rec Industry WASHINGTON, D.C. – Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (ORR) will host a webinar on July 6th to showcase professionals in diverse careers across the $689 billion outdoor recreation economy, to assist policymakers and prospective workers in understanding how these jobs provide outstanding quality of life, support conservation goals, and connect Americans to the great outdoors.
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Record Support of Public Land for Recreation from Yamaha
Since 2008, Yamaha OAI has been steadfast in serving the motorized and outdoor recreation community, contributing over $5 million in essential support for local and national organizations working to preserve and improve access to public land, fostering productive partnerships between recreationists and land managers, and delivering much-needed funds for safe, responsible recreation.
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Coalition supported by the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable
Together Outdoors (TO), a coalition supported by the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable and comprised of businesses and organizations in the outdoor recreation industry committed to justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion (JEDI/DEI) in the outdoors, announced their membership, advisory and governance councils earlier today.
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Congress Urged by 127 Outdoor Recreation Businesses
If passed, will stimulate the outdoor recreation industry and the thousands of small and large businesses that comprise the growing industry.
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Trump Admin to Grow Outdoor Recreation Economy
Last week, in support of the Trump administration’s Executive Order on Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) announced the selection of 10 communities under the Recreation Economy for Rural Communities assistance program to help revitalize their Main Streets through outdoor recreation.
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New Recreation Advisory Committee Praised by Outdoor Recreation Industry
Outdoor Recreation Industry Praises Interior’s Creation of New Recreation Advisory Committee, Appointment of “Recreation Czar”
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Commerce Secretary Asked to Help Grow Recreation Industry
Recreation Leaders Ask Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to Help Grow Recreation Industry and Participation
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FY2018 Budget Must Support Outdoor Recreation
WASHINGTON, DC, – America’s Great Outdoors is vital to the quality of life for most Americans and key to the nation’s $887 billion per year outdoor recreation industry. The federal government manages nearly one-third of the nation’s surface area, making it integral to the health of an industry that supports some 7.6 million jobs. The Outdoor Recreation Industry Roundtable (ORIR) urges support for federal outdoor recreation programs in the FY2018 budget now being crafted by the Congress.
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U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and U.S. Forest Service met with more than 30 representatives of the outdoor recreation industry
Senior Administration Officials and Recreation Industry Leaders Discuss Recreation Expansion and Improvements
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Employment Opportunity | OWAA Seeks Executive Director
The Outdoor Writers Association of America, the nation's oldest and largest association of professional outdoors-focused communicators, is seeking a new executive director.