SnowBrains Podcast Ep. 98 | Caroline Gleich – Professional Skier, US Senate Candidate, Climate Activist Caroline Gleich is a professional ski mountaineer, filmmaker, author, and one of the most visible climate advocates in the outdoor world. She’s climbed and skied some of the biggest lines on the planet, including multiple 8,000m peaks, while using her platform to push hard for outdoor conservation. In 2024, Caroline ran for the US Senate in Utah, bringing climate policy, […] Featured Video Podcast | January 6, 2026 0 Comments
Top Snowboard Athletes Urge Action as Roadless Rule Faces Repeal, Threatening the United States’ Prime Backcountry Ski Terrain The U.S. Department of Agriculture is moving to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a landmark 2001 policy that protects roughly 45 million acres of national forest across 37 states. Conservation groups and athletes warn the rollback would open prized backcountry terrain to logging, road construction, and development—and the public has until Friday, September 19, to weigh in. Related: USDA […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | September 16, 2025 0 Comments
USDA Moves to Roll Back Roadless Rule, Putting 45 Million Acres of National Forest at Risk The U.S. Department of Agriculture is preparing to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a landmark policy that has protected roughly 45 million acres of national forest across 37 states for nearly a quarter century. The Trump administration announced it will publish a Notice of Intent to roll back the rule on Friday, August 29, initiating a process that […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | September 10, 2025 0 Comments
3 Unprecedented Government Attacks Put New Mexico’s Public Lands in Jeopardy In the high desert of northwestern New Mexico, Chaco Canyon stands as one of the most significant cultural landscapes in North America. Between A.D. 900 and 1150, the Ancestral Puebloans constructed monumental sandstone complexes there, some aligned with solar and lunar cycles in what archaeologists describe as advanced archaeoastronomy. At its height, Chaco served as a ceremonial, cultural, and economic […] National Parks Martin Kuprianowicz | September 9, 2025 1 Comment
National Weather Service to Rehire Hundreds After Cuts, Bolstering Winter Forecasting for Ski Country The National Weather Service (NWS) will move forward with hiring hundreds of staff after months of backlash over deep personnel cuts, a decision that could improve winter weather forecasting for ski resorts and mountain communities nationwide. The Office of Personnel Management approved the hires after the NWS successfully argued for a public safety exemption to the federal hiring freeze that […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | August 11, 2025 0 Comments
How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Will Affect the Ski Industry The Big Beautiful Bill, which is currently being voted on by the Senate, has drastic implications for the ski industry if it is passed. Even though much of the public lands that were being sold off in earlier versions of the bill have been removed, there are still many ways in which this massive piece of legislation could have a […] Industry News Elliot LeBlanc | July 1, 2025 0 Comments
Public Urged to Help Protect 58 Million Acres of National Forest as Trump Administration Moves to Repeal Roadless Rule More than 50 million acres of protected U.S. forestlands could face new threats as the Trump administration moves to eliminate longstanding environmental safeguards. On June 23, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced that the administration intends to rescind the Forest Service Roadless Rule, a federal policy that has safeguarded vast swaths of national forestland from new road construction, logging, […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | June 26, 2025 0 Comments
Trump Administration Rescinds Roadless Rule, Raising Questions for Backcountry Skiing and Forest Access The Trump administration has rescinded the 2001 Roadless Rule, a move that could reshape how 58.5 million acres of national forestland are accessed, managed and developed—with direct implications for the ski industry and backcountry users. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday that it will lift the two-decade-old protections, describing the rule as overly restrictive and outdated. The Roadless Rule […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | June 24, 2025 0 Comments
Soaring Unemployment Rates Among Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs The legalization of marijuana has been a trending topic in the United States for decades now. 18 states have legalized marijuana since 2012 and, according to the PEW Research Center, 90% of Americans support the legalization of Marijuana. As the legislation surrounding cannabis relaxes, and the plant becomes more socially acceptable throughout society, there is a decreasing demand for weed-sniffing […] Brains Jesse | July 14, 2021 1 Comment
Bozeman Attorney vs. Big Sky Resort: Politics and the Ski Industry Many of us who ski or snowboard in resorts scrape money together all year for a pass and gear, but anyone who has been to a ski resort on a weekend or holiday knows that they are playgrounds for wealthy folks to go on vacations and spend lots of money. Ski resorts are huge businesses and have grown to be […] Industry News Aidan Christian | March 31, 2021 6 Comments
Oregon Decriminalizes All Drugs, D.C. Decriminalizes Psychedelics, & 5 States Legalize Marijuana The election is still up in the air but that didn’t stop voters from approving the decriminalization of all drugs in Oregon, psychedelics in Washington D.C., and the legalization of marijuana in New Jersey, Arizona, South Dakota, Mississippi, and Montana. It’s a major blow to the war on drugs. Decriminalized drugs in Oregon Voters in the state of Oregon voted […] SnowBrains | November 5, 2020 0 Comments
US Wildlife Officials Aiming to Remove Wolf Protections in 2020 The Trump administration plans to eliminate endangered species protections for gray wolves across most of the country by the end of 2020, the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday. “We’re working hard to have this done by the end of the year and I’d say it’s very imminent,” Aurelia Skipwith told The Associated Press in a […] SnowBrains | September 1, 2020 1 Comment
Radioactive Waste Could Start Being Dumped Near Bears Ears — Public Comments Requested Members of the Ute Tribe’s White Mesa reservation are concerned about a new plan proposed by a uranium mill near Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. Why? Because this mill has recently applied to the state of Utah to accept radioactive waste from Eastern Europe which it would then process for uranium. Related: Plans Finalized to Open Up Bears […] Martin Kuprianowicz | June 5, 2020 0 Comments
Miles of Utah Mountain Biking Trails Saved from Oil and Gas Companies The sale of several parcels of land near Moab, UT that included up to two-thirds of the popular Slickrock mountain biking trail has been reversed by the BLM, sparing the pristine area from oil and gas companies who were looking to drill there. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the Bureau of Land Management decided against selling the land to oil […] Biking Martin Kuprianowicz | February 24, 2020 0 Comments
Colorado Sells Record $1.75 Billion Of Cannabis in 2019 According to the Colorado Department of Revenue data, Colorado’s cannabis shops set an annual state record last year with $1.75 billion in sales revenue — yes, that’s BILLION with a B. The Cannabis industry in Colorado brought in over $300 million in tax revenue to the state in 2019 as well, surprising economists who believed that Colorado’s cannabis industry was […] Brains SnowBrains | February 21, 2020 1 Comment
French Ski Resort Draws Criticism for Using Helicopters to Deliver Snow The Luchon-Superbagneres resort in the French Pyrennees mountains has recently received criticism for using helicopters to drop much needed snow on the some of the resort’s slopes after suffering from a mild winter season that has lacked sufficient snowfall. A regional branch of a French political party are arguing that the actions taken by the resort to provide snowfall and […] Industry News SnowBrains | February 18, 2020 0 Comments
Utah Might Be Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent Citizens of Utah might not need to turn their clocks back every year anymore. A new Utah bill may make daylight saving time permanent after the bill got preliminary approval in the Utah Senate on Monday, Feb. 10, KSL News reports. Related: Utah Governor Halts the Distribution of 100,000 Unique Condoms Traditionally, daylight saving time intends to add an additional […] Brains SnowBrains | February 15, 2020 2 Comments
Utah Governor Halts the Distribution of 100,000 Unique Condoms The Utah Department of Health started a new program earlier this month that aimed to promote safe sex among teams by handing out free condoms with catchy, sexual slogans that also promote state pride. But a Utah governor has halted distributions of said condoms, according to a report by NBC News. Apparently, he was not in favor of their suggestive […] Friday Fun SnowBrains | January 17, 2020 0 Comments
White Sands National Monument, NM to be America’s Newest National Park The list of U.S. National Parks is about to get a little longer, with the addition of White Sands National Monument in Southern New Mexico as the latest national park. Last Tuesday, Congress passed a bill designating White Sands as our country’s newest national park. The bill just has to go to President Trump where he will then decide to […] SnowBrains | December 23, 2019 0 Comments
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