***Outdoors industry stands up for nature: Utah’s willingness to drop protections provokes a response
– “epresenting an estimated $18 billion in annual sales, the industry’s major trade group wields the kind of economic clout that makes pro-business Western politicians sit up and take note. But in the past, the Outdoor Industry Association’s lobbying efforts on hotly contentious environmental issues have been largely polite and genteel.”
“So it came as a shock to Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt recently when the industry group threatened to pull its major trade show out of Salt Lake City after the governor cut a deal with the Bush administration to scrap protections on nearly 6 million acres of wilderness areas in the state.” [SFGate]
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June 6, 2003
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2003.06.06
***Outdoors industry stands up for nature: Utah’s willingness to drop protections provokes a response
– “epresenting an estimated $18 billion in annual sales, the industry’s major trade group wields the kind of economic clout that makes pro-business Western politicians sit up and take note. But in the past, the Outdoor Industry Association’s lobbying efforts on hotly contentious environmental issues have been largely polite and genteel.”
“So it came as a shock to Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt recently when the industry group threatened to pull its major trade show out of Salt Lake City after the governor cut a deal with the Bush administration to scrap protections on nearly 6 million acres of wilderness areas in the state.” [SFGate]
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June 6, 2003 Posted by gdanmitchell | Commentary | Comments Off on 2003.06.06