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This year for the holidays, I am working with my family to figure out a way to make gift giving more rewarding, less excessive and more environmental. For gifts this year, we are instituting a recycled, handmade or “experience” type of gift policy. Yo...
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Exit StrategiesRegistration OpenManaging Human Waste in the WildPresented by The American Alpine Club at the American Mountaineering Center Golden, Colorado July 30-31 and August 1, 2010 - this conference is being sponsored in part by the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor EthicsWe invite top land...
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There are a number of reasons why it is important to travel on durable surfaces and stick to the trail, in areas where there is an established trail. You want to travel on the trail even when you come to a puddle in the middle of the trail...
Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics
Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics
The Center recently awarded its last round of 2009 Connect Grants for Culturally Diverse Communities...
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I fly fished this past weekend, which is nothing new. What is new, however, is what I caught - the Rocky Mountain Whitefish. I'd caught them before but never as many (or as big) as I caught last Friday...
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GUEST BLOG SUBMISSION: Jim Muller What to do with your Winter Camping poo? If you don’t have the luxury of portable toilets near your activity area, you’ll need to consider how to dispose of waste properly. T...
Greg Tarver
Greg Tarver
silver burrito!! pack it in-pack it out!!!
November 27 at 10:51am
Steph Fylpaa
Steph Fylpaa
why not doggie bags,...we're all used to that chore ...arn't we!
November 27 at 5:59pm
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Happy Thanksgiving from the Center! Remember to not feed wildlife today as you are enjoying a wonderful meal with your friends and family...
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Leave No Trace relies on research to help define its educational programming. Check out this recent conversation Dana Watts, Leave No Trace's executive director, had with Colorado State University's Peter Newman, Ph.D. about his recent Leave No Trace research at Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Before we say our last good-byes, we wanted to share a few of our memories from the past three years with you...
Bob
Bob
Last good-byes?...................what does that mean!?!?!?
November 22 at 1:35pm
Cathy
Cathy
I'm with Bob -- last good-bye's? -- WHERE ARE YOU GOING????
November 22 at 4:53pm
Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics
Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics
We'll we aren't going anywhere, but JD Tanner and Emily Ressler are wrapping up their three years with the Traveling Trainer Program...they are headed back to the midwest for a while to see their families and dogs!
November 24 at 8:08am
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Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics A fortuitous encounter with “Mr. Bigfoot” is motivating us to practice Leave No Trace sasquatch-style.


How? The furry guy has asked us to challenge this community to live up to his standards as an environmental activist. By showing your support for Leave No Trace you have the chance to show Bigfoot you’re up to the test.... He’s been doing it for years, and so can you!


Per Bigfoot’s request, we are offering a creative way for you to support Leave No Trace. By donating $15 you will receive some gifts to help warm up the holidays: a limited-edition Bigfoot pint glass (for your favorite holiday beverage) and a warm, cozy hat!


http://leavenotracecommunity.blogspot.com/2009/11/join-bigfoot-and-support-leave-no-trace.html

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The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics is an educational, nonprofit organization dedicated to the responsible enjoyment and active stewardship of the outdoors by all people, worldwide.
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Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics Check this video out - Speaking PEAK: enjoying the outdoors responsibly starts with youth! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l-xauwI454Sa

Sarah Folzenlogen, Education Program Coordinator, discusses the Center's youth program: Promoting Environmental Awareness in Kids (PEAK). The Center is very excited about reaching out t...o younger audiences and believes that enjoying the outdoors responsibly starts with youth! With the partnership and generous support of REI, the PEAK program reaches over 100,000 youth each year.
PEAK is a curriculum of hands-on activities and games to introduce youth to Leave No Trace in a fun and engaging way. More information: http://www.lnt.org/programs/peak.php.

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Adventure Film, a dedicated partner of the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, recently hosted its annual Adventure Film Festival in Boulder, CO earlier this month. As a local partner, it was a great opportunity for staff members to get hands-on in the great outreach AF is doing the community...
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We facilitated a Leave No Trace Trainer Course in Acadia National Park earlier this year. It was a great course with lots of discussions about outdoor ethics! One conversation that came up during the principle of "Leave What You Find" was the practice of rock stacking...
Kirby Adams
Kirby Adams
It generally is a negative experience for me. I wouldn't care in the front country so much, but when I'm going into the back country I like to feel like I'm the first and only human to traverse there. Obviously I intellectually know that isn't true, but it's a refreshing feeling to abandon yourself in nature that way. Finding artifacts of human ... See Moreintrusion (beyond the trail itself) shocks me out of those feelings.

It's not really damaging to the ecosystem, so I think LNT shouldn't lose any sleep over rock stacking, but I personally wish people would keep it to campgrounds and front country.
November 19 at 6:09am
David Johnson
David Johnson
I am generally against rock stacking and am tempted to scatter the rocks. I don't scatter them becasue of some faint feeling of karma.
November 19 at 6:04pm