An anon here made a post about the Boulder Outdoor Survival School and some challenges they're facing recently. I'm also a graduate of BOSS, and I don't feel the poster really got to the point. It's something /out/ists would do well to pay attention to, however. In short:
1. The Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS) is the oldest continually running survival school in America, running courses since 1968. Everything is ultraminimalist; backpacks are made of wool blankets, tents made from rain ponchos, all fire made from bowdrills. On the 28-day field course you hike off-trail in Utah's southern canyons and live off small rations, and whatever you can hunt or forage for.
2. The school is operates on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The feds are looking to restrict human activity in the area, limiting group sizes, banning campfires.
3. BOSS will lose hundreds of thousands of acres of its course area as a result, despite teaching these courses sustainably for decades and working closely with the rangers.
4. To help BOSS, go to the BLM's comment box and post the following statement anonymously from the pastebin link below.
- the pastebin link:
https://pastebin.com/ksHwFkf7 - the BLM's comment box:
https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2020343/595/8003876/comment 5. The deadline for submissions is *today.* Post as quickly as possible.
