MAINE (January 20, 2022) – Maine Outdoor Brands (MOB) and the Maine Office of Outdoor Recreation are set to attend Outdoor Retailer Snow Show 2022 in Denver with an exciting line up of MOB members, showcasing innovative gear and heritage industry products. The outdoor industry in Maine is steeped in history and tradition and it still captures popular imagination as …

Update: February 24, 2022 We want to thank everyone who weighed in with the legislature’s transportation committee in the last few weeks. Regrettably, the bill to exempt already approved specialty plates from the moratorium failed to pass. While good-intentioned from the onset, the license plate program, they felt, was in need of stricter rules and guidelines. The Adventure plate was, …

  Boating, biking, and manufacturing drove Maine’s outdoor recreation economy in a challenging pandemic year AUGUSTA, Maine (November 9, 2021) – The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has released data indicating the impact outdoor recreation had on each states’ economy in 2020. According to the report, which measures the economic activity as well as the sales generated …