Program areas at Outdoor Alliance
Conservation Policy: Research, analysis, and evaluation of state and federal public land policy (including federal agency regulations and legislation) as it relates to conserving and protecting the outdoors and providing clean air and water, healthy ecosystems, and opportunities for sustainable and equitable human powered outdoor recreation. Develop communitywide conservation and equitable access policy priorities, including various protective land and water designations, and educate state and federal policymakers regarding the same. Collaborate with various conservation stakeholders, including the sportsmen community and traditional environmental community.
Geographic Information System Laboratory: The GIS Lab will enable our community and policy makers to better evaluate, understand and visualize complex geospatial relationships that will result in better policy outcomes for our public lands.
Data and Communications: Educate organizations and people within the human powered outdoor recreation community regarding conservation policy and related civic engagement opportunities. Develop internal organizational capacity regarding policy analysis, communications, and community organizing. Develop and provide professional support for regional networks to enable local human powered organizations and local leaders to identify and pursue local conservation and sustainable recreational access priorities, and inform Outdoor Alliances national conservation policy priorities.
Lobbying: We work to ensure the best protections for places that matter to the outdoor recreation community. Our campaigns advocate for stronger legislative protection for landscapes that have both ecological and climate resilience value, and enable sustainable and equitable public access to the outdoors, including places that provide climbing, paddling, mountain biking, hiking, surfing, backcountry skiing, and mountaineering opportunities.