People attend the Outdoor Retailer show at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City in January. (Rick Bowmer/AP)The twice-a-year Outdoor Retailer show is the world’s largest trade exhibition for one of the world’s fastest-growing industries. It attracts some 50,000 visitors and an estimated $45 million a year to Salt Lake City, where it has been a fixture at the city’s Salt Palace Convention Center for two decades. Reacting to the pullout, Paul Edwards, a spokesman for the governor, told the Salt Lake Tribune that the decision “reflects a gross ingratitude. But most of all we love our public lands.”

Source: Washington Post February 17, 2017 10:08 UTC