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Retiring a Jersey and Celebrating a Champion for Forest Park

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

After six years, Stephen Hatfield, the Forest Park’s Conservancy’s Stewardship Director, has accepted a tremendously exciting professional opportunity with FPC’s partner REI as their new Outdoor Programs & Outreach Market Manager.

In his new role, Stephen will be developing and overseeing REI’s outdoor education, volunteerism, recreation programs, and community events within the Portland region. The FPC has greatly benefited from his wisdom and willingness to work with the organization’s leadership to grow The Conservancy’s stature, accomplishments and successes.

Stephen and Chris
Stephen Hatfield (left) of the Forest Park Conservancy and Chris Enlow (right) of KEEN taking some time to visit during an event at KEEN’s office.

 

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KEEN Ambassador on the Playground: World Champion Disc Golfer Avery Jenkins Bringing Disc Golf to the Masses

Monday, June 20th, 2011

“I am a Touring Professional Disc Golfer from Santa Cruz that travels all over the World playing in Disc Golf Tournaments in the US and abroad. I am the 2009 Disc Golf World Champion and a 3X US Distance Champion. As a Disc Golf Ambassador, I do all that I can to make this one of the best Sports out there. It’s a goal of mine to make Disc Golf a Mainstream Sport in the years to come. It has the potential to be something great in the future; it’s just going to take some time and a lot of hard work.” – Avery Jenkins

PDGA World's, Kansas City - 2009

Playground of Choice: “The world is my playground for playing the sport that I love for the fact that I travel all over the US, Europe and Asia playing Disc Golf Tournaments. My playground is ever changing and always evolving, the outdoors that I experience and its natural surroundings is progressively transforming into something new with every visit.”

What is one thing you can do to preserve your playground? “One way to preserve my playground is by promoting Disc Golf as being a great recreational activity that provides very low environmental impact and by doing my best to pick up litter on the courses that I play.”

Favorite KEEN Shoe: Milo II

Tee Shot at 09 PDGA Worlds

KEEN Ambassador Program: At KEEN we are always looking for people in every community who are stewards of the outdoors and bring a new perspective to the idea of living a Hybrid.Life.  At KEEN we strive to bring you closer to the outdoors by empowering our ambassadors to do the same for us!

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Join the Conversation – America’s Great Outdoors Campaign

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

America's Great Outdoors Campaign

President Obama is deciding the future of our outdoor spaces, he needs to hear from you. Join the America’s Great Outdoors campaign and ask him to take bold action now to protect our land, water and natural legacy for future generations.

The America’s Great Outdoors Initiative was established by President Obama in April at a White House Conference to develop a 21st Century conservation and recreation agenda and to reconnect Americans, especially children, to nature.

Who is America’s Great Outdoors?

The Great Outdoors Campaign is a collaborative, community-based effort created to support and amplify the conservation lessons learned in this summer’s formal and informal America’s Great Outdoors listening sessions. Their goal is to help the federal government develop a timely and smart conservation and recreation strategy to protect our land, water and wildlife. They are also working to ensure this new conservation strategy creates, expands and better-protects our shared outdoor spaces and fully funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

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Inspiring everyone to stand up for the Canadian outdoors one boot at a time

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

KEEN is launching KEEN BOOTS ACROSS CANADA, an innovative initiative designed to inspire people who are passionate, active and involved with making a positive impact to the outdoors around us.

KEEN Boots Across Canada includes 3 major components:

  1. PLAYING in the outdoors – hiking, kayaking, cycling or volunteering – and discovering the beauty of Canadian trails and waterways.
  2. CREATING in the outdoors – and uploading photos of one’s Boots Across Canada and possibly winning free KEEN gear.
  3. CARING about the outdoors – the outdoor company will donate $5 for every boot photo submitted on their website to The Bruce Trail Conservancy or to the Trans Canada Trail for the conserving and preservation of Canadian trails and waterways.

picture1At the center of the campaign is the online submission form where in real time, it keeps track of the number of Boots Across Canada and the corresponding growing donation amount.

“The campaign is an exciting opportunity to motivate everyone from coast to coast to get outside and either be recreational or to help give back by volunteering for trail cleanup,” explains Heather Taylor, KEEN Canada’s marketing director.

Online submissions are being accepted until October 31, 2009. For more information, please visit www.keencanada.ca.

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