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Bad Land: An American Romance

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NEW EPISODE! Live in Big Sky! This episode is a l

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YES on Prop 137! The entire reason I moved out W

YES on Prop 137!

The entire reason I moved out West in 2005 was for public lands and outdoor recreation. And now, 21 years later, those are the exact same reasons my wife, two daughters, and I continue to call Colorado home.

So I’m proud to endorse Colorado’s Prop 137, alongside so many of my conservation mentors and organizations that I have admired and/or worked with for more than two decades.

To learn more about Prop 137, check out my most recent episode with @carriebhauser, CEO of @trustforpublicland. That part of the conversation starts around 1:02:30.

But for those of you crunched for time, here’s the quick summary that’s as non-boring as I can make it: Without raising taxes, this measure will allow the state to keep the money it receives from the existing state sales tax on sporting goods and equipment and invest that money in programs that help prevent catastrophic wildfire, conserve our land and water, support Colorado’s thriving outdoor recreation economy, and increase access to nature.

You don’t just take my word for it. Check out the second image to see the long list of conservation organizations, community leaders, businesses, and elected officials who support the measure.

So if you live in Colorado, I’d encourage you to vote YES on Prop 137.

Visit www.yesonprop137.com to learn more.

Thanks. 🫡💪👊

📸 My oldest daughter at a not-to-be-named alpine lake high in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains.

@yesonprop137

NEW EPISODE! Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser (@carriebh

💪Happy Birthday, TR!💪 ••• “I believe in happiness,

💪Happy Birthday, TR!💪
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“I believe in happiness, I believe in pleasure, I believe in having just as good a time in life as you can have, and I do not believe you will have any good time at all in life unless the good time comes as an incident of the doing of duty—doing some work worth doing.

“The men I have known whom I respect and admire are, without exception, men who have achieved something worth achieving, by effort, by the acceptance, perhaps, of risk and hardship, by hard work and even by dreary work, who have had their eyes fixed on a goal worth striving for and have striven steadily toward it; and those are the men who have had real happiness in life.

“I know a considerable number of people, men whom I knew in my youth, whom I know slightly now, who have with more or less intelligent industry devoted themselves to having a good time. They strike me as having had an uncommonly poor time; and the very few of them who have enjoyment have it only because gradually their brains have atrophied so as to enable them to take pleasure out of the infinitely vapid.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

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