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3 weeks ago | 
insideclimatenews.org | Zoë Rom
As government agencies slash staff managing federal lands, rural populations dependent on outdoor tourism face mounting economic and environmental risks that are trickling down from the cuts. The Trump administration, as part of a broader initiative by its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut federal spending by up to $2 trillion, laid off thousands of federal workers in February, a disproportionate number of them working in public land management.
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3 weeks ago | 
ecotopical.com | Zoë Rom
Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator. Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.ultrasignup.com | Zoë Rom
Same Trailhead, New Energy: Brendan Leonard Joins The Trailhead as new Co-Host with Zoë Rom What’s your Reaction? +1 +1 +1 Trail and ultrarunning is full of characters. The big names, the everyday runners, the oddballs, the legends—people who make this sport what it is. And if there’s one thing The Trailhead has always done, it’s celebrate them all.
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1 month ago | 
irunfar.com | Zoë Rom
Some of the United States’ most iconic trail races — including the Javelina 100 Mile, Badwater 135 Mile, Moab 240 Mile, Western States 100, and Hardrock 100 — take place on federally managed public lands. However, emergent changes to how these public lands are administered may threaten the future of trail running and racing, making advocacy and volunteer efforts increasingly critical to maintaining access for the global trail running community.
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1 month ago | 
news.ultrasignup.com | Zoë Rom
What’s your Reaction? +1 +1 +1 This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough. ~ Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little RainThere comes a time in every trail runner’s season when the winter chill starts to feel personal. When the mud no longer feels like an invitation but a threat.
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2 months ago | 
news.ultrasignup.com | Zoë Rom
A Long Distance Relationship What’s your Reaction? +1 +1 +1 What started as a casual high school fling, an innocent crush, has spiraled into a full-blown, borderline-deranged obsession. Think Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, but instead of boiling a bunny, I’m waking up at 4:30 a.m. to run hill repeats in a snowstorm. I don’t know how to love running casually. I don’t know how to do it halfway.
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2 months ago | 
news.ultrasignup.com | Zoë Rom
What’s your Reaction? +1 +1 +1 On Saturday, January 4th, the EXPLORE Act (Expanding America’s Public Lands and Outdoor Recreation Opportunities) was signed into law, marking a watershed moment in outdoor policy. This ambitious legislation covers a range of initiatives, from safeguarding rock-climbing access in national parks and forests to facilitating trail-building and infrastructure upgrades like parking lots on federal lands.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
news.ultrasignup.com | Zoë Rom
How to Remember a Year in Running What’s your Reaction? +1 +1 +1 The internet is awash with year-end wrap-ups this time of year, bombarding us with everyone’s carefully curated highlights. Spotify Wrapped lets us bask in our own musical eccentricities (where, thanks to my endless loop of Brat during various ultras, I received a “personal note” from Charli XCX herself for being in the top 0.001% of her listeners).
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
hcn.org | Zoë Rom |Gretchen King
On Saturday, Jan. 4, President Joe Biden signed the Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences (EXPLORE) Act into law. This legislation aims to expand outdoor recreation access and includes a bundle of conservation-related initiatives, including wildfire mitigation, promoting renewable energy development on public lands, supporting ecosystem restoration, expanding public-land access and funding infrastructure improvements in gateway communities.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
insideclimatenews.org | Zoë Rom
On Sept. 16, the United States Forest Service (USFS) announced a hiring freeze for the next fiscal year, meaning the agency won’t be able to hire any seasonal employees in 2025. The decision stems from budget shortfalls as appropriations from Congress fell about half a billion dollars short of the Forest Service’s request and impacts around 2,400 seasonal positions, including employees who perform trail work, facilities maintenance and ecological and climate research.
