Association of Partners for Public Lands
Engaging the public in caring for our nation's natural and cultural resources

• Bureau of Land Management
  Take It Outside!
   

• The Conservation Fund
  The National Forum on Children and Nature
   

• Department of Interior / USACE / US Forest Service
  Get Outdoors, It’s Yours! campaign
   

• National Park Service
  The National Park Service, the National Association of State Park Directors, and the National Recreation and Park Association have formed a new partnership to develop and promote programs and policies in parks and other areas that connect children with nature. www.nps.gov/ChildrenInNature/BestPractices.
  
  NPS Kids Zone
   
• National Park Foundation
  First Bloom & Connect Kids
   
• Outdoor Industry Foundation
  Teens Outside
   
• Take Pride in America
  Take Pride Schools
   
• USDA Forest Service
  Get Outdoors!
  
   Discover the Forest
   
• US Fish & Wildlife Service
  Let’s Go Outside
  Neighborhood Explorers is a new online video game aimed to encourage kids to go outside and learn about the environment. Designed for children ages 8 to 11 years old.
   

The Natural Inquirer - a middle school science education journal created by the USDA Forest Service and the Cradle of Forestry Interpretive Association.

Mount St. Helens Institute:

• Children/Family programs
• Field Seminars for adults

Yellowstone Association  - Yellowstone for Families

The National Wildlife Federation and Warner Brothers have teamed up on a national parents' education campaign to encourage more outdoor play time for U.S. children. NWF's Be-Out-There™ campaign intends to give back to American children something they don’t even know they’ve lost: connection to the natural world. The Be-Out-There campaign launch is timed with the opening and release of the feature WB film Where the Wild Things Are. As an education partner for the film, NWF shows kids how they can escape into nature and learn about the wild things wherever they live. To learn more, visit: www.BeOutThere.org. 

Nature Rocks is a new initiative created to inspire and empower parents to take their families out to play, explore and enjoy quality time in nature for happier, healthier and smarter children. please visit www.naturerocks.org .

The Children & Nature Network has published two new resources for leaders, organizers, and participants at the local, national, and international levels:

• Children and Nature 2008: A Report on the Movement to Reconnect Children to the Natural World. Download the movement report (2.2MB) at www.cnaturenet.org/uploads/CNMovement.pdf.
• C&NN Community Action Guide: Building the Children & Nature Movement from the Ground Up. Download the action guide (1.1MB) at www.cnaturenet.org/uploads/CNActGuide1.1.pdf.

Geeks in the Woods "are just a bunch of teenagers who don't mind putting down our PS3, Wii or IPOD on a whim to go outside for some adventure."

Richard Louv   Author of Last Child in the Woods; Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder.

National Environmental Education Foundation  Programs include National Public Lands Day, National Environmental Education Week, and more.

National No Child Left Inside Coalition
Created in 2006 to find new ways to encourage kids to experience nature and learn about the environment. Supports the No Child Left Inside Act, which would provide new federal funding for outdoor learning activities and high-quality environmental education.

Maryland No Child Left Inside Coalition is the result of the formation of the Maryland Partnership for Children in Nature created by executive order from Governor Martin O’Malley. The Partnership, co-chaired by the Secretary of Natural Resources and the State Superintendent of Schools, will create new opportunities for children to connect to nature through outdoor play and learning, and will develop a plan to ensure that all Maryland high school graduates are environmentally literate.

Kids and Trails  Hosted by AmericanTrails.org.

Take a Child Outside Week  September 24—September 30.

Where Do Children Play? A PBS documentary that examines the social and technological trends that conspire to rob children of their birthright: time and opportunity for unstructured, spontaneous play, especially outdoors in nature.

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