Supplementing legacy best efforts with the connective tissue that empowers a purpose-driven, measurable program.
OREE — Outdoor Recreation | Education | Entrepreneur — was first developed in 2020 under the Economic I-25 Outdoors Opportunity Region banner. The framework was complete: a K-12 education pipeline, a business accelerator, a regional marketplace, a stakeholder network spanning every level of government and industry. The vision was right. The funding model wasn't.
The original OREE pursued Build Back Better grant funding and required a lead institutional applicant — a school district, a university, a government agency — willing to serve as fiscal agent. None stepped forward. The program entered dormancy waiting for the right vehicle.
"We tried the institutional route. We documented why it doesn't work. Now we've built the alternative."
Mike Isaacs · Founder, Tymmber Outdoor™In 2026, Tymmber Outdoor's Prosperity Program — built from the bottom up as an individual enrollment platform — converged on the identical architecture OREE had built from the top down. The same pipeline. The same marketplace. The same job board. The same certificate structure. Two programs, one mission, built six years apart from opposite directions.
OREE is now relaunched as Tymmber U's Applied Programs Division — funded by earned revenue and investor capital, not federal appropriations. No lead applicant required. No institutional permission needed. The program delivers directly to individuals, schools, and communities that are ready — without waiting for the ones that aren't.
OREE framework complete — K-12 pipeline, business accelerator, I-25 marketplace, stakeholder network. Build Back Better grant strategy initiated.
Four-day encounter with Guatemalan asylum seeker Miguel in the New Mexico mountains. The human dimension of the Despair Economy becomes personal and permanent.
No lead applicant found for federal grant funding. OREE enters dormancy. The institutional pathway is documented as broken.
Tymmber's Prosperity Program framework emerges — 268M Americans, $10.3T lost, the $250K standard. Identical architecture, individual delivery model.
OREE relaunched as Tymmber U Applied Programs Division. Five programs active — Prosperity Program, Pipeline, Road School, Certificate, Job Board. New Mexico pilot live. International expansion in development with UK partner Garry Pratt.
OREE operates five programs that work as a complete system — from catching youth before they enter the Despair Economy, to enrolling adults already in it, to delivering the curriculum in the field, to credentializing and employing graduates, to building the trainer network that scales the model nationally and internationally.
OREE's flagship adult program. Six modules, free online curriculum, self-paced. Built for the 268 million Americans caught in one of fifteen documented Despair Economy conditions. The measure of success is not exit from poverty — it is entry into prosperity at $250,000 household income.
Enter the Program →The preventive layer. OREE's K-12 outdoor education pipeline — Early Access (K-4) through Graduating (HS 10-12) — catches young people before the Despair Economy does. Six program levels. Delivered through schools, youth organizations, and community partners. The pipeline the system should have always had.
Explore the Pipeline →OREE's field operations arm. Road School activates Pipeline and Prosperity Program curriculum in the real world — deployed at the Gila Wilderness, Sierra County, the I-25 corridor, and anywhere a TRAILPOD can reach. Field hours logged through Road School count directly toward TTP-1 certification. The curriculum teaches you how to think. Road School is where you prove it.
Explore Road School →The credential that makes the program economically real. TTP-1 certifies graduates. TTP-2 certifies trainers. Both issued by OREE under Tymmber Outdoor. Unlocks verified Marketplace status, Job Board priority matching, and — for TTP-2 trainers — the right to run cohorts and retain program fees.
View the Certificate →The economic on-ramp. Paid positions, volunteer hours, apprenticeships, and entrepreneurial opportunities across New Mexico's $3.6B outdoor economy — verified, curated, and connected to the TTP certificate. OREE graduates get priority matching. The pilot proves the model. Then it scales nationally.
See the Job Board →The physical campus where all five OREE programs operate under one roof — integrated service center, field deployment hub, classroom accelerator, and community anchor. Currently a funded Moonshot. The program is live now. The building is coming.
View the Moonshot →OREE's mission has not changed since 2020. The delivery model has. These six commitments are the same ones the program was founded on — now backed by a platform, a curriculum, a certificate, and a job board that can actually deliver on them.
Provide an outdoor industry-based economic pathway out of poverty for disadvantaged communities — not through charity but through credentialed participation in a $1.2T economy.
Provide stability and continuity within state governments to offset the ever-changing persons in positions of outdoor economic state leadership — through documented programs and policy frameworks that outlast any single administration.
Develop generational power for NexGen outdoor participants — young people who inherit not just access to public lands but the skills, credentials, and economic frameworks to build lives on them.
Provide a private enterprise economic platform that ensures stakeholder success — built on earned revenue and investor capital, not government dependency, with sustainable economics for every participant.
Help usher in the Outdoor Circular Economy — where program graduates become educators, marketplace sellers become mentors, and every participant eventually contributes to the system that supported them.
Support legacy outdoor initiatives and programs — the 85+ organizations in the NM Terrain Network, the conservation corps, the trail alliances, the tribal programs — by connecting them to a trained, credentialed, motivated workforce.
The I-25 corridor — running from Pueblo, Colorado through Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces, and into El Paso — is the spine of New Mexico's outdoor economy and the geographic anchor of OREE's pilot market. It represents one of the most concentrated intersections of public land, outdoor industry, underserved communities, and economic development infrastructure in the American West. OREE was born here. The Prosperity Program is proving itself here. Prosperity Place will be built here. What works on I-25 becomes the model for every corridor that follows.
Explore the NM Terrain Network →OREE is not a program for one type of partner. It is the connective tissue between all of them — the platform that allows a school district, a federal land agency, an outdoor brand, and a Despair Economy graduate to participate in the same economic ecosystem.
The institutional route failed. The individual route is open. No application. No credential required. No lead applicant needed. Just the willingness to move toward $250,000.
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