Sustainable Recreation and Tourism

Editor’s note for issue 13 of Western Confluence magazine

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Communities across the West are racing to embrace outdoor recreation and tourism as an up-and-coming industry. This means figuring out how to reap economic and quality-of-life rewards while avoiding pitfalls such as trash, crowds, and too many seasonal, low-wage service jobs. In more than a dozen articles, this issue of Western Confluence magazine asks what it would look like to envision and work toward an outdoor recreation future where our communities are thriving.

I contributed the opening editor’s note for this issue, the last issue of Western Confluence for which I served as Editor in Chief.

Read the note here and browse the full issue at westernconfluence.org.