Over 200 outdoor recreation businesses just asked Congress to pass the America the Beautiful Act — reauthorizing a fund that pays down the National Park Service's maintenance backlog using energy development revenue, not visitor fees. New Mexico already runs a fund built the same way, off the same industry, at a scale most states only dream of. This memo proposes New Mexico build its own version.
The New Mexico State Investment Council manages more than $68 billion — one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the country, built overwhelmingly on oil and gas revenue. The state's own dedicated outdoor recreation fund distributes roughly $12.5 million a year. New Mexico already found $185 million for quantum computing in under a year, once it decided the priority mattered. This memo proposes the New Mexico Outdoor Legacy Fund Act — three funding streams, including a new one: an assessment on the AI and quantum computing investment the state is already courting.
Read the memoNew Mexico already found $185 million for quantum computing in under a year. The outdoors deserves the same comfort level, not a smaller one.
If Hawaii Could, Why Not New Mexico?
A bar argument on Oahu became Kona. New Mexico has never lacked the terrain or the heritage. It's lacked the format — 2F2W4L is a proposition for what that format could be.
Two Feet, Two Wheels, Four Legs: running and biking as the disciplines everyone recognizes, and a fourth leg built from something already ours — a person partnered with a dog, a Pack Burro, or a horse, moving together across the same high desert terrain. This is not yet a stand. It's an invitation.
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The Next Trillion: How the Outdoor Industry Unlocks Its Next Era of Growth from the 268 Million It Has Failed to Serve
The market is saturated at the top. The answer has been overhead — and underserved — the entire time.
The outdoor industry is saturated at 70 million core consumers. The next decade of growth lives in the 268 million Americans the industry has never spoken to — and in the one company building the on-ramp to reach them. The next trillion does not come from selling a fourth jacket to someone who already owns three.
Read the white paperThe Butterfly Effect Economy: What Happens After Transformation — and Why It Changes Everything
B. Joseph Pine II identified Transformation as the highest form of economic value. This paper argues there is a sixth stage — and that it begins precisely where Pine's arc ends.
When a person is genuinely transformed by an outdoor experience, they do not keep that transformation to themselves. They cannot. The grandfather teaches the boy. The boy becomes a man who shows someone else how to fish. That cascade — unguidable, unpredictable, unowned by any single company — is the Butterfly Effect Economy. This paper names it, maps its five load-bearing layers, and makes the case that creating the conditions for transformation at scale is the highest-leverage investment any organization can make. We build for 100%. We pray 50% buy. Trust the butterfly with the rest.
Read the thesisLiving on Hopes and Dreams — How the Film Drives the Mission
Content is not marketing. It is the on-ramp — the zero-cost mechanism that moves 268 million underserved Americans from first outdoor experience to sovereign living identity.
Every outdoor company spends to acquire customers. Tymmber builds the world they want to live in — then offers the tools to get there. The film, the audio series, the books, the AI storytelling — each one converts storytelling into a zero-CAC hardware pipeline — building the $275K lifetime Hitch to Home consumer before a single product is ever offered. Angel Studios proved that community-first content can scale without institutional backing. Tymmber is building what comes after them — broader terrain, deeper ecosystem, and a hardware layer no content company can replicate.
See the full content strategyBuilt Somewhere Else. Not Anymore. — The Mission of an Outdoor Recreation Cabinet
Memo 017 asked the question: does outdoor recreation belong in the Cabinet room? This charter answers the next one — what that Cabinet's mission is, and how it fits among the departments already sitting there.
More than half of what New Mexico's outdoor recreation industry sells is manufactured somewhere else. This charter is the mission that changes that math: a Cabinet Secretary profile built for industry credibility over résumé, an organizational reshuffle that brings State Parks and the Río Grande Trail Commission home, and four funding streams — none of them new taxes on New Mexicans. Trails matter. Parks matter. But this is the document that turns the outdoors from something New Mexico sells access to into something New Mexico builds.
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Three people died on Grand Canyon trails recently.
Here's the question nobody is funding.
The standard warning — stay hydrated, turn back if you feel symptoms — assumes the hiker's body will warn them in time. The evidence suggests it won't. The heart may be failing electrically before it fails mechanically, in a decoherence cascade the hiker cannot perceive. No peer-reviewed study, to our knowledge, has asked this specific question. Tymmber Outdoor is proposing to change that. Nullius in Verba.
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One Design, Three Forms
Celestial Passage — the same field art, rendered across drinkware, the journal, and apparel. Carry the one that fits how you move.
One Man's Vision
of a Mobile America
The outdoor lifestyle from your vehicle didn't start with an app. It started with sawdust, a film crew, and one man's conviction that the wilderness made better people.
From the Vagabond newsreels of 1914 to Kingsford briquettes to the first Airstream built on a Ford chassis — the full documented lineage of how Henry Ford seeded an economy. And why the name Kingsford contains two of the most powerful words in the story. And why Fire.Stone. means exactly what it sounds like.
Is it Time to
Think Differently?
Can old ways make space for new ideas? 325,136 Acres. Zero Wildland Hydrants.
New Mexico's second-largest wildfire in history burned through our own county in 2022 — past ranch ponds and farm wells the entire way, neither one able to pressurize a fire line when it mattered most. 325,136 acres. Sierra, Catron, and Grant counties. More than 90 percent of the Aldo Leopold Wilderness. Five New Mexico fires over 130,000 acres in the last fifteen years alone. The water was never the gap. The interface is. This is the case for a question, not yet a stand: can ranchers, farmers, energy, and conservation groups find enough common ground to build the interface that's missing.
Lost Horse Lodge: Ride the Trail. Deploy the Kitchen. Sleep Where You Land.
The Tymmber gear ecosystem — RAAK, ShiftPod, STUMP, Solar Hut — deployed at a premier Montana glamping destination. The first partner stay outside New Mexico.
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RAAK: Nine Years of Field R&D. One Prototype. The $900 Entry Point into the Sovereign Outdoor Life.
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