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Tulsa World – July 17, 2011

An Outside Influence: Get Kids Unplugged and Outdoors

By Brandi Ball
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, along with U.S. Forest Service, is working to get kids out in nature. [+]

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Great Falls Tribune – July 16, 2011

Montana Educators Help Kids Re-Connect with Nature

By Nancy Reece Jones
Flathead Community of Resource Educators offers workshops to help combat nature-deficit disorder. [+]

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Idaho Statesman – June 19, 2011

A New Nature Movement Imagines a Future More like Boise than ‘Blade Runner’

By Rocky Barker
Rethinking nature and our role in it can make us healthier and more creative, says Richard Louv. [+]

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Petoskey News – April 17, 2011

Getting Kids Outdoors

By Petoskey News
Emmet County, MI, group inspired by "Last Child in the Woods" to launch community-wide Getting Kids Outdoors initiative. [+]

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Homer News – April 13, 2011

Good Advice for Young and Old: Let’s Get Outdoors and Play

By Michael Armstrong
Alaska writer explores his own boyhood and the relationship today's children have with nature, in addition to summoning resources in his own area, such as Let's G.O.! Homer and other events. [+]

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Marin Independent Journal – April 16, 2011

Zach Pine’s Earth Day Celebration: “Sphere-a-sizing” at Stinson Beach

By Paul Liberatore
Environmental artist Zach Pine's annual Create-With-Nature Earth Day Celebration is a hands-on collaborative outdoor-art event that includes sculpture, drawings, dance, and music. The highlight of the gathering: his enthusiastic demonstrations of how to make sand globes, aka sand balls, using a counter-intuitive tossing technique Pine developed himself and calls "sphere-a-sizing."

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Natural Leader Tamara Poles and Virginia Museum of Natural History are Putting People Back in Touch with Nature

Nearly 13,000 people have taken part in 247 programs of the Community Nature Initiative. [+]

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TRACK Trails Offer Nationwide Weapon Against Nature-Deficit Disorder

New interpretive trail system for kids comes to U.S. national parks. [+]

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Applications Open for 2012 TogetherGreen Fellowships and Innovation Grants

Audubon & Toyota seek to fund promising conservation leaders and community-based projects. [+]

“No Child Left Ashore” Movement Makes Waves

SF Bay Area's Pegasus Project gets students out on the water, where transformations occur. [+]

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Play England Calls for Support to Help Kids Play Outside

Research shows that 21% of children play outdoors daily, compared to 71% during their parents'… [+]

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A Healing Place for Children

C&NN Founding Chair Richard Louv consulting on new children's treatment center in MN, which is… [+]

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National Kids to Parks Day Set for May 19

Nationwide day of outdoor play organized by National Park Trust. Classroom contest ends March 1. [+]

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Chevy Chase, MD, Preschool Encourages Learning Outside the Box

Preschoolers spend at least half a day outside in woods, in all seasons. [+]

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Study: Preschoolers Need to Get a Move On

Most pre-school children spend hours doing sedentary activities instead of playing outside, research has shown. [+]

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