outdoors
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Colorado study confirms: Outdoors were saving grace at start of pandemic
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A new study out of the University of Colorado at Boulder provides empirical proof to claims heard widely at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic: The outdoors were a guard against anguish. Researchers surveyed 1,200 residents around Denver and rated depression and anxiety “scores” to draw correlations with time in green spaces. Among those who…
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Introducing Conor Hall, new head of Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office
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Colorado has a new face for its mighty outdoor industry. It’s a young one. It’s 32-year-old Conor Hall, who from his childhood mountain town of Crestone has gone on to accomplish an impressive amount in an early career. It has been a career in politics, most recently with The Trust for Public Land. For the…
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Christmas tree permits now available throughout Colorado
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Coloradans now have the opportunity to cut down their own Christmas trees in select forests throughout the state with the purchase of a Christmas tree permit. The permits went on sale Wednesday for the Pike-San Isabel National Forest, Cimarron National Grassland and Comanche National Grassland, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Permits for the Pikes…