Youth-led Movement for the Outdoors Plans Nationwide Agenda—with more than $100,000 in Dedicated Funding for Youth Project Ideas—to Expand Access, Activity, and Appreciation.

New York, NY (June 23, 2011) -- Outdoor Nation, the youth-led movement championing the outdoors launched last year in Central Park, is returning to New York this week to kick off its …

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Our travels have been good since leaving the dam on the Taltson River. I will try to sum up the highlights of the past week. We decided to have a rest day at a beautiful campsite high up on a granite slope. Dave managed to catch three Lake Trout over the course of the past week. Fennel has become an avid observer of Dave catching and filleting fish.

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Keyhole State Park

Paddling up the Taltson River has gone well so far. The current is not very strong and the water level is low. We have witnessed a change in the landscape as we have traveled south. The in the delta of the Taltson, the banks were lined with mud. The farther upriver we go, the more rocky it gets. Granite dominates the landscape, along with lichen, moss, and Jack Pines. We have entered the Canadian Shield.

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Hot Springs State Park

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If you build it, they will come. That spirit has grabbed hold of the youth from the Rocky Mountain West as a group of more than 150 embark on a mission to attend the Outdoor Nation regional Youth Summit scheduled for Denver in late July.



They will arrive from Montana, Utah, South Dakota and across Wyoming to a pre-meeting (now dubbed the Summit “Tailgate”) at Curt Gowdy State Park in the Laramie Mountains before heading out to Denver.



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Hey Outsiders --

Here's some news to share with you from our State Parks.  Take a look and share your thoughts about these stories and about what is going on in your state.  

Should parks be cared for and paid for only by the people that use them, or are they every citizen's birthright?  

Should parks be run as businesses vs. public trusts?

What should we be doing as a community to address this issue?

NY Times:  …

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So, I wish I could attend the Outdoor Nation National Summit here in Atlanta, but unfortunately (or not) I am at Camp getting prepared to teach kids the importance of the outdoors! Not only will they have lots of fun, but they will realize that we can't live without our environment!

The fourth stage of the North American Odyssey has begun! Dave, Fennel, and I got a ride up to Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories from my father. We gave a few presentations at the school in Fort Resolution and then hit the water.

 

The principal was nice enough to drop us off at a great starting point on the Slave River. From there, we…

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