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Trails and greenways are a way to help kids be fit and have fun. Many organizations and agencies, including American Trails, are working to combat increasing childhood obesity. See programs, training, education, activities, youth employment, and resources:

Getting kids and families on the Waterfront Trail
Discover one of North America's great family trails with the Great Waterfront Trail Adventure
Outdoor Recreation as a Motivational Tool for Youth

Trails: an antidote for "Nature Deficit Disorder"
Go Play Outside Alliance of Washington teaches kids about nature and fun in the outdoors
Vermont Envirothon students evaluate impacts of outdoor recreation
B.R.I.D.G.E. Alternative High School students build Hancock trail
Go Play Outside Alliance teaches kids about nature and fun in the outdoors
BusRadio will promote stewardship to kids on the way to school
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Getting kids out on the trail has health as well as education benefits; on the Rivanna National Recreation Trail (photo by Diana Foster)

Tahoe Rim Trail offers Youth Backcountry Camps

Forest Service Chief Gail Kimbelle on Kids in the Woods: Making the Connection

Congressman Sarbanes Introduces "Foundation for a Fit Nation" Act

Congress Gets Behind IMBA's Take a Kid Mountain Biking Effort

Trips for Kids Metro DC takes disadvantaged youth on mountain bike excursions

Sierra Club Inner City Outings provides opportunities for urban youth

Children & Nature Network supports people and organizations working to reconnect children with nature

Building Healthy Children with the Trans Canada Trail Mix

"GEEKS in the Woods" reach out to the next generation

Youth Programs from "Toolbox for the Great Outdoors"

An Active & Safe Routes to School Success Story

Active & Safe Routes to School in Ontario

Guiding principles for Safe Routes to School programs

Safe Routes to School funding will help with kids' health

Safe Routes to School funding available for states for FY05-09

Travel to School: The Distance Factor

Why Johnny Can't Walk to School: neighborhood schools in the age of sprawl (pdf 368 kb)

Kids and Trails: Antidote for "Nature Deficit Disorder"

Distribution of "Safe Routes to School" funds to states for 2008

National Get Outdoors Day is a new June event to help kids connect with nature

NPS Deputy Director Harvey addresses youth outreach efforts for Centennial

California Outdoor School Administrators seek outstanding lessons for planned publication "Best Practices Guide to Teaching in the Outdoors"

Environmental Education and the No Child Left Behind Act

Coalition intensifies efforts to rewrite No Child Left Behind Act

When Kids Hit the Pedals, Good Things Happen; from the Washington Post

Kids need trails, and trails need kids, by Dennis Madsen, President and CEO of REI

The Powerful Link between Conserving Land and Preserving Health, by Howard Frumkin and Richard Louv (pdf 184 kb)
Research documenting the "nature deficit" concept of author Richard Louv
Effects of Outdoor Education Programs for Children in California

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