Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
New organization guides combat veterans through wilderness, healing
Chase Gean, wounded veteran and Laramie Range Adventures for Veterans volunteer, fishes on the Bighorn River near Thermopolis. Laramie Range Adventures for Veterans is a new organization that has based its model on earlier experiences, such as this one, with military veterans.
LARAMIE - There is a rugged beauty to southeast Wyoming.
A new organization wants to help combat veterans experience that beauty in a positive way.
Laramie Range Adventures for Veterans is a new program connecting combat veterans with hunting, fishing and wilderness experiences, as well as with fellow veterans.
Daniel Haff, LRAV founder and president, said the concept of bringing veterans to the outdoors has its roots in the military experience.
Haff, a U.S. Army veteran who was wounded in Afghanistan, noted that on the front lines, the military experience is nearly always outdoors.
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