Product Reviews

The new Leafsnap app is a cool concept, but does it encourage a violation of Leave No Trace?

June 1, 2011
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Does the new outdoorsy mobile iOS app Leafsnap violate the Leave No Trace principles by asking citizen scientists to pick leaves off trees and plants in order to use the app to identify leaf species?

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We Rattlesnake-Trained the Dog! Should You?

May 30, 2011
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We put our puppy through a rattlesnake avoidance training class outside the Bass Pro Shops in Rancho Cucamonga. It may just save her life!

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The Weather Channel’s new outdoors series “From The Edge With Peter Lik”

April 13, 2011
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A promotional post about The Weather Channel’s new series, “From the Edge With Peter Lik”.

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