Jason Curry

Did you know that over the past 10 years, the outdoor economy grew faster than the overall US economy? PLUS- Utah’s outdoor economy outpaced every other state in the nation. headwaterseconomics.org/outdoor-recrea…

Sometimes the simplest things can make a meaningful difference for our health. In this #GoodNotes blog, Joanna Bettmann Schaefer, MSW, PhD, a professor of social work and adjunct instructor of psychiatry at @UUtah, shares research showing that just 10 minutes outside can help reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and mental fatigue. A helpful reminder to step away, get outside, and reset whenever we can. Read more: uofuhealth.utah.edu/notes/2026/04/…

@DudeskiA @emeriticus @ReviewsPossum What does it show when conservative lawmakers pass laws that protect public lands? When they appropriate funding to purchase lands and put them into public hands via conservation areas, state parks, and recreation easements?

@JCurryUDOR @emeriticus @ReviewsPossum Calling myself the lord of the universe doesn’t make me royalty

Utah just expanded Life Jacket Loaner Stations statewide, including at all 23 water-based state parks, making it easier than ever to borrow, wear and return a life jacket this summer. Read more: recreation.utah.gov/press-release/… #WearItUtah #LifeJacketsSaveLives

Let’s see your wildlife pictures! 🌿📸 “Nature feels more alive when wildlife is near.”

@chrishardman Ok, maybe look at the data: gardner.utah.edu/wp-content/upl…

Drive down I-15 through Silicon Slopes at 5:30 PM. Look at the glass boxes baking in the smog. Look at the thousands of identical crossovers idling in bumper-to-bumper traffic, filled with people who moved here from California because the taxes were lower and they liked the aesthetic of mountains. They don't know what it means to sweat on a mountain. They just want a backdrop for their lifestyle brand. Utah swapped its birthright for a tech boom and a real estate bubble. Every square inch of the valley is being paved over with cheap five-over-one apartments and master-planned communities with names like "The Orchard" built directly on top of the actual orchards they bulldozed to make room for them. The modern Utahn’s highest aspiration isn't to build a kingdom; it’s to land a mid-level project management role at a SaaS company, buy a house with a 30-year mortgage, and spend weekends drinking 60-ounce dirty sodas from a drive-thru while their kids play competitive soccer. It’s a giant, lukewarm simulation of success. The Great Salt Lake is drying up, exposing a bed of toxic arsenic dust that blows across the golf courses and manicured lawns. It’s the perfect metaphor. The literal foundation of the valley is turning to poison.

@DudeskiA @emeriticus @ReviewsPossum Perfect example of why so many partisan thinkers have that same misconception. Conservation is a conservative value.

@JCurryUDOR @emeriticus @ReviewsPossum Right… thehill.com/policy/energy-…

@jennifersrude Check out acc.eco

has a single person in the history of humankind ever once associated the love of nature with the right? Is that something that has ever happened literally once at all?

@emeriticus @ReviewsPossum Factually false

@ReviewsPossum It’s actually not right-wing coded because the right has made it a point of policy to poison and strip mine the environment rather than steward it.

@stantastic0 @ReviewsPossum This is a false narrative

@ReviewsPossum Urbanization and cities is viewed as liberal. Camping and outdoorsmanship is coded conservative for self reliance/strength. However conservatives seem to support the things that destroy nature. The outcome is conquering/overcoming nature not appreciating/preserving nature

@ThomasWayneRil1 Yes, I am, but maybe it's a matter of semantics.

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I'm not a doomer poster but I just got devastating news... and I am not being dramatic, my heart sank. They're paving Hole in the Rock Road. 10 miles now. 10 miles soon. The whole thing eventually. They're stealing our wilderness inch by inch. Paving over paradise.

@BradWilcoxIFS This is not good

Boys are playing it safe. Risk-taking among American boys has fallen off a cliff — dramatic decline in embracing dangerous things👇🏽

@beauhightowerdn You're going to love 53.

Man. I'm about to be 43 and I can actually feel myself falling out of my physical prime. No HRT and I've been able to fight it off through my late 30s and Early 40s by staying active, but not mid 40s ... I am starting to get weaker in the gym, the salt and pepper is becoming mostly gray and I don't think I could even touch the rim anymore. You somehow in your mind know it will come one day but for it to actually get here is a crazy experience. I see why people have midlife crisis now, because you start to lose the version of yourself that you have been for your whole adult life.

“If you want to build a family legacy that lasts, don’t look for it on a screen. Log off. Touch grass,” Tara McKee writes.

We gotta lock in, America

@LauraPowellEsq Bad for liquor companies, yes.

Everyone recognizes this as a symptom of something bad, right?

Take the break and spend some time in nature. You're important. The outdoors and public lands are waiting for you.

@BradWilcoxIFS Huge misread on your part.

Not a fan of teen drinking, but the collapse in teen alcohol use is yet another sign of kids retreating from the real world into the virtual one.👇🏽

@Deseret Imagine you go to your doctor and you're told that a 20 minute walk in nature is part of your treatment. Then imagine your health insurance provider counts the purchase of those trail shoes toward your deductible. Note: You used your HSA to buy them and your hydration pack.

The first National Executive Forum on Health and Outdoor Recreation convened last week in Washington, D.C. Leaders and researchers from the healthcare space met with recreation and public lands leaders to find ways to ensure time outside is incorporated into healthcare. Read more in the post below. ✏️: Kevin Lind, Deseret News 📸: Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

take somebody fishing.