Boulder Backyard Collective Volunteers Rock the Wapiti Trail

Our Boulder volunteers truly rocked at this year’s event! With over 100 participants from member businesses Osprey, SmartWool, Nite Ize, La Sportiva, IMBA, Outdoor Industry Association, Backpacker’s Pantry, American Recreation Company and our friends at Sea to Summit, we put McLeods, Pulaskis, and Bucket Brigades to work on the completion of a reroute project initiated…

Favorites on Friday: The Adirondack Council Celebrates Success

Photo: Carl Heilman II The Conservation Alliance supported the Adirondack Council's Upper Hudson Woodlands Campaign to ensure the protection of 200,000 acres of land in the Adirondacks; 90,000 acres of which was protected in 2011.  In August 2012, New York State purchased 69,000 additional acres of the Upper Hudson River watershed, providing permanent protection for…

Volunteers turn out in record numbers for the Portland Backyard Collective

Volunteers turned out in record numbers for the Portland Backyard Collective! Over 300 participants from Conservation Alliance business members Columbia, KEEN, Icebreaker, Merrell, REI, and The North Face worked together across seven sites on a variety of stewardship projects at Sellwood Park, Tryon Creek State Park, Willow Creek, Springwater Trail and Forest Park. Event partners…

Summer Outdoor Retailer – A Huge Success!

Summer Outdoor Retailer Wrap-Up  * We had a record crowd at The Conservation Alliance Breakfast.  * We announced CLIF Bar & Company as a new Pinnacle Member. * We INKED close to 1,000 Conservation Alliance Supporters with CA Tattoos! * We generated 1000 postcards to Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. John Boehner urging them to…

The Conservation Alliance Breakfast with Guest Speaker Aron Ralston

Please join us for this summer's Outdoor Retailer Conservation Alliance breakfast! We are pleased to welcome Aaron Ralston as our guest speaker this year! Aron Ralston is an adventurer who inadvertently gained fame when he hiked into a remote area of Utah's canyon country, and accidentally dislodged a boulder that crushed and pinned his right…

Outdoor Retailer: Be Inspired, Take Action & Sweet Gear!

  It's that time again! Outdoor Retailer is less than one week away, so make sure to mark your calendars for The Conservation Alliance events and promotions! The Conservation Alliance Breakfast – Day 2 Conservation Alliance Breakfast: Arrive Tried, Leave Inspired.  Join us for The Conservation Alliance Breakfast and hear from guest speaker Aron Ralston,…

The Conservation Alliance Announces Tattoo Design Contest Winners

Designs from CamelBak, SmartWool, and Osprey featured in ‘Tattoo Parlors' at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market   The Conservation Alliance Outreach Committee selected three winning designs from among the 15 submitted during the Conservation Alliance Temporary Tattoo Design Contest.  Todd Bischoff, global graphic designer for SmartWool, John Duran, industrial design manager for CamelBak, and Tim Calkins,…

Bennet Introduces Bill to Preserve Hermosa Creek Watershed

      Photo: Jeff Widen Bill Would Protect More Than 100,000 Acres in San Juan National Forest, Designate 38,000 acres of new Wilderness Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today introduced a bill to protect more than 100,000 acres of the Hermosa Creek Watershed, an area in the San Juan National Forest north of Durango. The bill…