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With outdoor recreation estimated at $887 billion annually by the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) and $337 billion by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), public lands are currently at the center of that conjunction of happiness and economic growth.

As the first streaks of light touch a snowcapped Mt. Princeton in the Sawatch Range, the Arkansas River continues to churn on its eastward quest to eventually meet with the mighty Mississippi.