At West Elm, we design our outdoor furniture and accessories to stand up to rain, sunshine and anything else summer may bring—pool splashes, wet towels, sandy f...
Update (April 2021): In summer 2020, a new flammability standard for recreational camping tents sold in the U.S., called ASTM F3431,was published. In addition, ...
The outdoors should be a place where everyone can feel safe and be themselves. But for a long time, the outdoor industry and media have reinforced a n...
Some 170 years ago, Congress assembled the Department of Interior (DOI) to govern the country’s public lands. Today, that includes nearly 500 million acres that...
In spring 2020, just as Harvard University researchers were set to launch the field portion of a national study investigating the link between time in nature an...
New requirements, developed in collaboration with a diverse group of stakeholders, builds upon a set of standards introduced in 2018 to help outdoor brands think progressively about the way they do business.
Here we are, nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, further from what our lives were than ever. Some of us haven’t seen family or hugged anyone in all of thi...
On a breezy October day, professional big-wall climber Quinn Brett clipped the climbing rope for protection at the bottom of the Boot Flake, an exposed pitch ab...
Editor's note: This article was first published on May 29, 2020. It was updated on Dec. 30, 2020 with the latest winter guidelines for responsible recreation.
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The first time Corina Newsome saw a pileated woodpecker, she wept. It was winter in Northeast Ohio and thick flakes were blanketing the earth outside. She’d lea...
In a win for veterans, President Trump Sunday signed into law the Accelerating Veterans Recovery Outdoors Act as part of the Veterans COMPACT Act, which will ma...
Editor's note: This article was first published on May 21, 2020. It was updated again on November 24, 2020 with the latest best practices for responsible winter...
