Featuring Thomas Rogers

Outdoor Ethics is a national organization that protects the outdoors by teaching and inspiring people to enjoy it responsibly. The Center accomplishes this mission by delivering cutting-edge education and research to millions of people across the country every year.

Our Strategies

The broad approaches we will take in order to achieve the goal:

1. Make Leave No Trace relevant and accessible for all people who spend time outside (People).

2. Make Leave No Trace prominent, relevant and accessible in the outdoors (Lands).

3. Ensure all outdoor programs/organizations embrace and champion Leave No Trace (Collaboration). 


4. Organizational Sustainability (Sustainability) — an organization that is thriving financially, broadly supported and coupled with strong leadership to ensure our ability to pursue our mission into the future.

Tom Rogers has been hiking, camping and canoeing in the US and Canada for 41 years and decided to become Leave No Trace Master Educator in 2005 to help protect the wilderness he enjoys. He has taught Boy Scout and Girl Scout leaders, eco-tourism guides and the general public how to practice backwoods ethics. Mr. Rogers is also a Risk Manager and loss control representative for insurance companies.