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Theodore Roosevelt was a noted outdoorsman, conservationist, and big-game hunter Author and sportsman Ernest Hemingway was a record-holding trophy fisherman, seen here with several marlins caught on a trip to Bimini in 1935. Outdoor enthusiast and outdoorsy are terms for a person who enjoys outdoor recreation.
Eddie Bauer (October 19, 1899 – April 18, 1986) [1] was an American outdoorsman, inventor, author, and businessman. He founded the Eddie Bauer company to sell tennis-related items in Seattle, Washington in 1920. [1]
The definition given for roadless is "the absences of roads which have been improved and maintained by mechanical means to insure relatively regular and continuous use". [62] However, there have been added sub-definitions that have, in essence, made this standard unclear and open to interpretation, and some are drawn to narrowly exclude ...
The concept of "wilderness" also took on a new meaning; Leopold no longer saw it as a hunting or recreational ground, but as an arena for a healthy biotic community, including wolves and mountain lions. In 1935, he helped found the Wilderness Society, dedicated to expanding and protecting the nation's wilderness areas. He regarded the society ...
Euell Theophilus Gibbons (September 8, 1911 – December 29, 1975) [2] was an outdoorsman and early health food advocate, promoting eating wild foods during the 1960s.
Adams was a famed United States outdoorsman, animal collector/trainer and an owner/performer in his own menagerie and later a partner of P. T. Barnum's shows. A biography was published about Adams the year he died. [95] He was the central character in Charles E. Sellier's 1972 novel The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams.
Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls OBE (/ ˈ ɡ r ɪ l z /; born 7 June 1974) is a British adventurer, writer, television presenter and former SAS trooper who is also a survival expert. He first drew attention after embarking on a number of notable adventures, including several world records in hostile environments, and then became widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild (2006–2011).
Jack O'Connor was born in Nogales, Arizona, a territory he described as the last frontier.His parents divorced when he was a young child and his maternal grandfather, James Woolf, helped raise him and exposed him to the outdoors and hunting. [1]