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Ranging

The word ranging is a code word for almost all outdoor recreation and actvities.

Tourism is for outsiders, visitors from anywhere; ranging is for outsiders and residents.

It is combined:

• Tourism
• Eco-tourism and nature tourism
• Extensive outdoor recreation (not including common organized sports but including for instance, hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, climbing, birding, biking, and boating)
• Sightseeing
• Outdoor projects, events, memberships, shows, contests and games ...

... but it is also a name of a major concept that may be created and that seems essential for its long-term benefits to a region.

Ranging is a word unifying dispersed outdoor recreation and many related activities. It is more than just a bunch of activities. It is also the dynamic enterprise (e.g., Pivotal-Rig, Inc.) working to develop the ecological and environmental conditions and services for lasting profitability of such activities. Not just a new word, highly successful Ranging is dependent on region-wide natural-resource development and management that provides employment, a tax base, and improving quality of life for citizens of the region. Pivotal-Rig, Inc. can become the home of this concept and its development. It can become a favorable topic by which the region becomes well known.

Briefly, ranging is:

• a new system of alternative, soundly-based, diverse, regional tourism and
• any of the activities such as those listed.
• (If you're hunting, then you're ranging; if you're hiking, then you're ranging.)

Tourism has been claimed to be needed and has been a positive economic element of some communities. We have seen many such areas throughout the world but we also know of many failures and struggling families who have taken bad advice. The Pivotal-Rig concept and its formulation is so different that it cannot be recognized as any current form of tourism, thus requiring a new name. We have a formulation for success that includes a key idea that Ranging includes many different year-around activities and opportunities. These are activities for tourists and other participants but also for local as well as related employment elsewhere. It includes the concept of restoration and preservation, then long-term management and care. It is a dynamic among people, the land and environment, managerial expertise and active staff, and marketing, leading to profits that support the sophisticated managerial system for the land.

Many of the activities proposed within Project Pivotal-Rig can be considered ranging.

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