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Executive Director Dana Watts Talks 30+ Years of Leave No Trace on Colorado Public Radio

Executive Director Dana Watts was recently featured on Colorado Public Radio’s Colorado Matters. She spoke with host Ryan Warner about her 30-year career leading the organization and what’s next for the Leave No Trace movement. The conversation covers a lot, from Leave No Trace’s beginnings at a wilderness research conference in Fort Collins to the challenges of working with land management agencies that have recently been hamstrung by staff reductions and reduced funding. The conversation also touched on nitty-gritty issues such as the right way

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