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Idaho Outdoor Business Council

Providing a strong voice on behalf of sustainable recreation and of the benefits of healthy lands and waters to Idaho’s economy

The Idaho Outdoor Business Council is a coalition of businesses and recreation groups dedicated to preserving and promoting Idaho’s spectacular wild lands and waters and to educating public officials as to the importance of conservation measures and public lands funding initiatives as drivers for Idaho’s outdoor recreation economy and quality of life.

07/30/2019

The new head of BLM is a lawyer who wants to sell off your public lands.

William Perry Pendley has also called fracking an environmental 'miracle'

05/13/2019

Could it happen in Idaho?

Many states have opened an Office of Outdoor Recreation to harness the power of economic opportunities tied to the environment. Gov. Brad Little hopes to do the same work without added layers of government.

05/02/2019

Stay tuned!

Gov. Little will make a big announcement tomorrow at the Grove Plaza. Join us. The event is free to the public.

More information here: https://tinyurl.com/y2v6k3yz

02/15/2019

2018 was about as bad as it gets for salmon and steelhead, and numbers only continue to decline. When many small businesses in Idaho depend on healthy runs of salmon and steelhead, we need to start speaking up for Idaho's fish.

Biologists predict Idaho’s salmon and steelhead runs will be very low again this year, but a new agreement may make migration easier. Warm waters in the Pacific Ocean have hurt all salmon runs since 2014.

02/13/2019

A breath of fresh air coming from Congress...A bipartisan public lands package that reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation fund among other positive outcomes for our lands, rivers and national parks.

Years in the works, the measure designates more than a million acres of wilderness for environmental protection and permanently reauthorizes a federal program to pay for conservation.

10/11/2018

Nice work CLIF Bar. We are happy to have you in Idaho, making smart business decisions for today and the future!

TWIN FALLS — Clif Bar intends to use the power of the sun to supply about 30 percent of its bakery’s electricity needs in Twin Falls.

09/28/2018

Idaho's 11.9 million acres of BLM lands saw 466,155 fishing visits in 2016 alone.

IOBC stands up for small businesses across Idaho that rely on Idaho's rivers, wildlife and public lands for their livelihood.

Hunting, fishing, and wildlife-watching visits to the 246 million acres of land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) across the West support 26,500 jobs and generate more than $3 billion for the U.S. economy, according to a new study focused entirely on the economic contribution of wildli...

09/21/2018

“All of this data underscores that outdoor recreation is a significant and growing contributor to the U.S. economy – we strongly encourage members of Congress to invest in public lands as these numbers demonstrate the return on investment,” said Amy Roberts, executive director at Outdoor Industry Association

Spending on outdoor recreation outpaced Big Oil’s contribution to the U.S. economy according to federal statistics released Thursday, prompting critics to renew their attacks on Trump administratio…

04/20/2018

Moving on! The Recreation-Not-Red-Tape Act aims to reduce barriers to outdoor recreation access, and improve public land management.

The legislation would designate existing, unmanaged recreational areas as protected places.

03/17/2018

A public lands bill with bipartisan support?

A bill allowing public land sales for conservation inches towards passage.

03/08/2018

Here's some good news coming out of the Idaho Statehouse today.

SCR 132 commemorates the anniversary of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and the role that Idahoans played to pass it.

03/02/2018

Are we at risk of losing Harriman State Park over politics?

If you live in Idaho and want to keep this Idaho gem in public hands, please contact your State Legislators and ask them to vote no on House Bill 496.

https://legislature.idaho.gov/legislators/whosmylegislator/

Idaho bill to shift oversight of prison, roads, parks directors from boards to governor stirs controversies over Harriman State Park, highway project.

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