Posts by Ta Enos
Moving ahead after BBBRC
Moving ahead after BBBRC By Tataboline Enos, PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship Founder + CEO Well friends, we tried so hard to bring this home for rural PA. As the only outdoor recreation industry cluster to make it to the final round, representing a highly rural landscape, we left it all on the field. Everything.…
Read MoreAct Now: Tell Your Representatives Not to Gut the PA Wilds!
Act Now: Tell Your Representatives Not to Gut the PA Wilds! ** Update – 9/14/2017 ** The biggest raid to the state’s environmental funds in the history of the Commonwealth passed the PA House of Representatives YESTERDAY. At stake: a $317 million withdrawal from funds dedicated to our wild lands and waters, wildlife and the…
Read MorePartners create branding for Wilds Cooperative
[heading size=”2″ color=”e.g. #000″]Partners create branding for Wilds Cooperative[/heading] We’ve deemed Fridays as gratitude day here at the PA Wilds Center, and this week’s love letter goes to the North Central PA PREP partnership, which is a group we meet with regularly that includes economic development types and small business service providers that help entrepreneurs…
Read MoreBuilding the PA Wilds experience: a sneak peek at our new gift shop
[heading size=”2″ color=”e.g. #000″]Building the PA Wilds experience: a sneak peek at our new gift shop brand[/heading] Happy 4th of July! The new visitor center at Kinzua Bridge State Park is open to the public for the first time this weekend, but the grand opening won’t be until mid-September. As I mentioned a few weeks…
Read MoreYou know you are a Pennsylvania Wilds child if …
[heading size=”2″ color=”e.g. #000″]Join us in welcoming one of the Pennsylvania Wilds newest residents.[/heading] Popping in today to say thanks to all the well-wishers on the latest addition to my family, my new son Dash. He was born June 24, weighing in at 8 pounds, 9.6 ounces, the third of three boys. Mom and baby…
Read MorePlace-based tourism: a growth industry in rural PA
[heading size=”2″ color=”#000″]Place-based tourism: a growth industry in rural PA[/heading] Last month we held a workshop for county commissioners from the Pennsylvania Wilds before our big annual awards dinner. Speakers from state and federal agencies that serve the region’s rural communities highlighted their funding programs. I was asked to do a 15-minute overview of the…
Read More2016 PA Wilds Champions: Thanks for the inspiration!
[heading size=”2″ color=”#000″]2016 PA Wilds Champions: Thanks for the inspiration![/heading] It is hard to put your heart into building something bigger than yourself, to make the daily risks and sacrifices that go along with doing that, and then have someone in your community put it down, or say it can’t work, or try to discredit…
Read MoreWhat Makes A Wilderness Race Great?
[heading size=”2″ color=”#000″] What Makes A Wilderness Race Great? [/heading] [heading size=”3″ color=”#000″]Lessons from the PA Wilds’ most famous mountain race[/heading] I used to work evenings at the Anchorage Daily News, in Alaska, so three or four mornings a week in the summer and fall I’d drive to south Anchorage and run Flattop Mountain before…
Read MorePushing Through Uncertainty
[image_caption]In production: coming soon from Hughes Pottery in Forest County.[/image_caption] Pushing Through Uncertainty The Pennsylvania Wilds effort is entering new territory. For the first time, we’re tackling product and brand development in a big way. We worked for a decade to get here. A long time, I know. But despite popular belief, that’s how entrepreneurial…
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