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Five things to do to get more natural a place to share--naturally.

I want to encourage people to connect children with nature. I believe camps have a genuine opportunity and responsibility to be catalysts for tens of thousands of kids, but we often miss it. Most of us are in more than the child and youth development business, we are in the outdoor child and youth development business!

There is little value in scaring children about environmental issues. Nor is there much value in studying things so remote that they seem to not matter. (Why worry about the ozone layer when you don't know there's a squirrel in your backyard?) The most important thing is simply for all of us to remember how wonderful the natural world is, and to share that. ...

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