Month: June 2013

(June 20, 2013) -- "In a continuing effort to make the learning process easier for RV consumers we uploaded our first video on our RV Education 101 You Tube channel Jan. 10, 2008," said Polk. "Now, five and a half years later, we are averaging 30,300 video views per month.”

(June 20, 2013) -- “We designed this summer’s contest to entice campers to keep coming back and registering to win each week,” said Gast. “We’ve already seen 105,000 unique e-mail entries, and 3.1 million overall entries, and we still have four more months to go.”

(June 20, 2013) -- "The rent-a-camp cabins have been extremely popular since they were introduced in 2012 at Deam Lake and this year at Starve Hollow," State Forester John Seifert said. "We are especially pleased that these log cabins are made from Indiana-grown forest products."

(June 19, 2013) -- "Wilbur and I had been talking about this change for several years," Derald Bontrager said. "We wanted to create an opportunity for younger leaders to guide the direction of the company. Jayco has become a very large and very complex company. We decided to relieve me of some day-to-day responsibilities so that I could focus more time on developing strategy to guide us for the next five, 10 and 20 years."

(June 19, 2013) -- "These efficiently run clinics maximize time spent learning and feature experts in all fields," said Ryder. "The Trouble Shooter Clinics have been redesigned to include more hands-on training, smaller class sizes, and increased class times."

(June 19, 2013) -- A Wyoming Game & Fish Department game warden trapped a black bear in the Bighorn National Forest Sunday night. The 4-year-old male bear had received a food reward from a camper in the Dayton Gulch area earlier that morning. That evening, the bear returned for more. The bear was euthanized.

(June 19, 2013) -- In Texas, one burglary suspect is on the loose after going on a theft rampage through an RV park, reports KGBT-TV.

(June 19, 2013) -- The Forest Service is spraying mature pine trees with insecticide at Lake Como campgrounds on the Bitterroot National Forest, north of Darby, Mont. NBC Montana reports it's an effort to prevent Mountain Pine Beetles kills.

(June 19, 2013) -- In Alberta, Sturgeon County forester hopes local governments will support his plan for a new RV park near Namao – one that will use trees to treat sewage, reports St. Albert Gazette.

(June 19, 2013) -- Just inside the Stokes County, N.C. border at the base of Pilot Mountain, a new view of the mountain has opened for those with pull-behind campers and RVs to park. The Pilot reports that view comes with full hook-ups and enjoy the relaxation and adventure of the area.