Tippets: Gear Blogging, Pebble Dangers, De-Stressing in Forests

July 26, 2010 By: Marshall Cutchin

  • Backcountry.com blogger Rocky Thompson: It’s not easy to stay constantly angry when “the outdoor industry is actually pretty good at what they do.”
  • University of Montana professor of ecology Jack A. Stanford: “the porous nature of the Bristol Bay watershed that makes it such a great producer of salmon also makes it especially vulnerable to the kind of pollution that is caused by copper sulfide mining.”
  • Finnish scientist: “Forests… reduce stress, improve moods, reduce anger and aggressiveness and increase overall happiness.”