American Frontiers trek explores Public Lands. (News Link).

From: GEO World | Date: November 1, 2002 | Copyright information

In August 2002, two teams of four people started out simultaneously from the Mexican and Canadian borders on a two-month journey with the goal of meeting in the middle of the United States while traveling on public lands the entire way, a distance of more than 2,600 miles. Teams traveled via walking, horseback riding, mountain bikes, ATVs and off-road motorcycles, canoes, whitewater rafts, motorboats, and four-wheel-drive vehicles. The journey crossed six states, including New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.

The trek, named "American Frontiers: A Public ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Exploring American frontiers: A teacher's journey through public lands
; ...a two-month journey across America's public lands. Joining a small team of trekkers and...and women to blaze a trail across our public lands in the Rocky Mountains. Murphy's extensive...to share the outdoors, especially the public lands, with many more people than I am able...
Cubin's challenger takes her to task on public lands.
; ...has failed to show any leadership on public lands issues in her 12 years in office. She...been a growing movement to auction off public lands to pay for Congress' inability to control...affairs in order. I want to ensure that public lands stay in public hands, he said. As I...
Cubin's challenger takes her to task on public lands
; ...has failed to show any leadership on public lands issues in her 12 years in office. "She...been a growing movement to auction off public lands to pay for Congress' inability to control...affairs in order. "I want to ensure that public lands stay in public hands," he said. "As...
SHOULD LIVESTOCK GRAZE ON PUBLIC LANDS?(Brief Article)
; ...needed by wildlife. Livestock grazing on public lands should only be permitted if it does...solitude and pristine beauty on their public lands. Meredith Taylor, Wyoming representative...the relationship between private and public lands. Without public-land grazing, many ranches...
PUBLIC LANDS
; Finding answers regarding how to best use public lands in Wyoming will not be easy. What is...Making the permitting process for using public lands easier and less complicated. Trying...all the litigation that pops up when public lands are involved. Perhaps the best solution...
Public lands policy may spell trouble. (Sec of Interior Bruce Babbitt's policy of reducing multiple use rights for public lands) (Column)
; ...to the administration of federal public lands that could profoundly alter the lives of millions. Since 1960, public lands have been administered under the...campaign against multiple use of public lands. In the introduction to the league...
The great divide People split over the proper use of public lands
; ...debate about the use and misuse of "public" lands will be heard from. As reported in Wednesday...view, weighing their mandate to open public lands for multiple uses, sometimes even uses...which people get access to ostensibly public lands, and how and for what ends they are...
Stand for public lands
; ...at's become a recurring issue of selling public lands for everything from paying for rural...example of that." The issue of selling public lands isn't new. said Bob Ekey, the Wilderness...For the last 20 years, the sale of public lands has been a platform for the Sagebrush...
The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity
; ...RANGE REVISITED Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity Debra...the near 150-year battle over western public lands policy and a detailed review of the...concise account of how one side of the public lands battle views its opponents. Donahue...
PIONEERING 3,000-MILE TREK HIGHLIGHTS PUBLIC LANDS HERITAGE
; ...Concludes In Salt Lake City on National Public Lands Day WASHINGTON, July 31, 2002 - Agriculture...to launch the American Frontiers: A Public Lands Journey. The two-month long journey is the first trek ever made entirely on U.S. public lands and begins simultaneously today with...