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Written by Scott Silver
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
The American Recreation Coalition was born as a direct response to the petroleum
crisis of 1979. It's mission was to ensure that Congress did nothing to infringe upon the use of gasoline for recreation and tourism. ARC's earliest supporters included Chevron, Exxon, the American Petroleum Institute and numerous motorized recreation industry leaders. Starting in 1997, and with more than a little help from Wild Wilderness, ARC's reputation as an anti-environmental organization became well established and broadly known. In recent years, the ARC has deservedly been on the receiving end of some very negative media attention.
 Clearly, from the ARC's standpoint, something had to be done if they were to continue functioning as America's most influential, and successful, motorized recreation lobby. And so in an effort to recast itself as something other that what it is, the ARC has created for itself a very different media persona. Today they hide behind children.
I'd like to draw your attention to two new items. The ARC recently published the "Summary Proceedings" resulting from a series of listening sessions they and the National Forest Foundation recently held in venues from coast-to-coast. On the title page of their report, you discover that the USDA Forest Service, the American Petroleum Institute, Tread Lightly and Yamaha Motor Corporation provided national support. There were no other sponsors.
All of the federal land management agencies participated in these forums. The report resulting from this effort WILL have a profound impact upon the management of outdoor recreation on all federally-managed public lands. Read the report and you will see how the wise-use, motorized, ARC is hiding behind children.
The other item is a new ARC's website. This one is called GETOUTDOORSUSA.ORG and here is a quote from the homepage. Additional information is provided below.
Get Outdoors USA! is the driving force behind a national movement to help our children seek out healthy, active outdoor lives and to embrace America's Great Outdoors - our parks, our forests, our refuges and other public lands and waters.
The "Kids in the Woods" issue is becoming red hot and it will drive much of the national recreational policy in the next few years. I thought folks would like to know WHO, specifically, is the driving force behind this brilliant public relations campaign.
Scott
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About
Us
Get Outdoors USA! is a coalition of concerned organizations who
have come
together to change the way our children think about the Great
Outdoors and
help them engage in healthy, active outdoor
lives.
Get Outdoors USA!
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Partners
Domain Registration
Domain
Name:GETOUTDOORSUSA.ORG
Created On:12-Mar-2007 13:04:55
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Registrant Name:Derrick Crandall
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Organization:American Recreation Coalition
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Street1:1225 New York Avenue, NW
Registrant Street2:Suite 450
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City:Washington
Registrant State/Province:District of Columbia
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Postal Code:20005
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