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Crews are making progress in building a new gateway to Redwood National Park in Humboldt County. Work has just wrapped up for the year at the site of an old timber mill near the town of Orick. Operations will pick up again next spring, and the site is expected to open to the public in 2026. . ....
Outdoor recreation continues to contribute to Washington state s economy in a big way. That s according to new data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which finds the industry added $12.3 billion to the state s economy and supported more than 114,000 jobs in 2021. Ashley Nichole Lewis is the owner of Bad Ash Fishing on the Olympic Peninsula. . ....
Newly drafted legislation would combine swaths of land in Virginia and Maryland to create the Chesapeake National Recreation Area. Although it s been in the works since the 1980s, it could come to fruition within the next year. The new recreation area would include parks and visitor centers that would be managed by the National Park Service. . ....
The proposed national monument to be called Avi Kwa Ame is getting a big boost today as the top leaders of the Bureau of Land Management hold a public meeting in Laughlin. Tracy Stone-Manning, director of the BLM, will hear from a range of stakeholders on the 450,000-acre proposed monument near Searchlight. Taylor Patterson, executive director of the Native Voters Alliance of Nevada and a member of the Bishop Paiute tribe, said the area is the center of the creation story for many Yuman-speaking tribes. . ....
Two of North Dakota s Native American tribes hope new legal action will compel the state to reconsider political boundaries approved last year. Despite some progress, their advocates say the new maps still dilute the voting rights of tribal members. In a federal lawsuit filed this week, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Spirit Lake Tribe said the maps violate the Voting Rights Act. . ....