Outdoor Industry applauds efforts for engaging youth in the outdoors

(Nov. 1, 2013) -- “As the recent outcry over the parks and public land closures during the shutdown indicated, the nation’s parks, waters and trails are American icons and economic drivers in this country,” said Bailey “Outdoor recreation is big business. It’s time that Congress and the administration work together to pass a budget that ends unpopular cuts and invests in America’s parks, trails and waterways as economic drivers.”