Tag: Land

But Watchtower Adventures owner Mark Rice fears he could go bust if Brexit brings back controls along the currently free-flowing frontier. "You just don't know, you could wake up some morning the next day with the road blocked," he said. "It would probably close me down, that is the big fear, and I've put everything I have into it." Advertisement Where stag dos and hen parties trade luminous paintball volleys, British Army base "Romeo 21" once loomed during the conflict that tore the British province of Northern Ireland apart for three decades. Three watchtowers and a helicopter pad commanded a panoramic view of the border between County Armagh in Northern Ireland, and County Louth in the Republic. "You woke up in the middle of the night with the helicopters flying over your house," Rice remembered. The region's turbulent history is now part of the paintballing park's marketing strategy. At the same time, the haunting hidden remnants of the army base have surfaced again after a heat wave last summer that kindled gorse fires in the area. Coils of rusted barbed wire, heavy metal bolts and wiring are now visible - a reminder that the past in this troubled zone lies just under the surface. "We're now again talking in the language of orange and green, British and Irish, nationalist and unionist, republican and loyalist."

DENVER — Two years after jumping into a fight with the Trump administration over public lands, the U.S. outdoor industry is turning up the political pressure - though its impact is difficult to measure. "We will always - this is really core to who we are," said Corley Kenna, a spokeswoman for Patagonia, the brashest political fighter among the industry's major players. The Outdoor Industry Association and some big retailers, including Patagonia, Columbia Sportswear, REI and The North Face, have campaigned together and on their own to protect public lands. Some of their forays are unobtrusive get-out-the-vote campaigns, lobbying for national parks funding and email blasts to customers about public lands news. But Patagonia took the unusual step of endorsing U.S. Senate candidates in November's election. Now, show organizers have made climate change and sustainable manufacturing a priority and announced the formation of the Outdoor Business Climate Partnership to lobby for state and federal climate policies. "You do tend to see issue advertising does change public opinion to a much greater extent than candidate advertising," he said. But neither the Outdoor Industry Association nor the big companies have done the kind of polls and surveys that would show that. "I would like to think that we played a part in that because we were motivating our own community to get out and vote," Kenna said. Public lands were an issue in the Nevada election last year, said Dave Damore, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

What are some of your thoughts on this? Here we are on the Pacific Ocean. I bought it fifteen years ago. I made one of the great deals they say ever. I have no more mortgage on it as I will certify and represent to you. And I was able to buy this and make a great deal. That’s what I want to do for the country. We have to, we have to bring it back, but God is the ultimate. I mean God created this (points to his golf course and nature surrounding it), and here’s the Pacific Ocean right behind us. So nobody, no thing, no there’s nothing like God.”[1]