Outdoor Industry Pledges Support for Public Lands
Bend, Ore.,(Mountain Press)-A group of four Conservation Alliance members traveled to Washington DCto talk to members of the US Senate about the importance of a proposal toprotect more than 2 million acres of public land and nearly 1000 miles ofrivers.

Representatives from KEEN, Cloudveil, Outdoor IndustryAssociation, and The Conservation Alliance spent two days in meetings with 12 Senateoffices to show support for S. 3213, a legislative package that includes morethan 100 public lands bills. Included in the package are proposals to:

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Olympic Bikers at East Coast Nationals
Windham, NY(Mountain Press)-U. S. Olympic Mountain Bike Team members Adam Craig and ToddWells will compete in the NMBS East Coast Nationals at Windham Mountainon July 10 - 13, 2008.

Craig and Wells, named last week to the 2008 U. S. Olympic Mountain Bike Team,are heading east to compete in the East Coast Nationals before the NMBS finalsat Mount Snowin Vermontthe following weekend. Rankings show Wells at number eleven and Craig at numbersixteen in the world.

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BC's Mt. Washington Bike Park Gets $100K Facelift

The snow-shoveling crews are dog-tired, but they did it.

After receiving more than 12 meters of snow this past winter, the bike park at British Columbia's Mt. Washington is ready for action, complete with $100,000 in improvements.

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National Geo Rolls Out New MapGuide for Crown of the Continent

If only Augustus McCrae and Woodrow McCall had it this easy.

For the rest of us not on a cattle drive from Texas to Montana like Larry McMurty's Rangers in Lonesome Dove, traveling in the mountains of the Crown of the Continent just got a whole lot easier, thanks to the National Geographic Society..

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