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Trails Challenge

  • Author(s): East Bay Regional Park District (http://www.ebparks.org/)
  • Organization: East Bay Regional Park District (http://www.ebparks.org/)

Sign up for this popular self-guided hiking program and enjoy your Regional Parks at the same time! Thanks to a special partnership between the East Bay Regional Park District, Kaiser Permanente and the Regional Parks Foundation this program is free to residents of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties and Kaiser Permanente Employees. The Trails Challenge program is a great way to stay active and keep up with your fitness goals. Best of all – participate on your own schedule, when it is convenient to you.

http://www.regionalparksfoundation.org/page.aspx?pid=582

WildED Wilderness Education Program

  • Author(s): BC Spaces for Nature (http://www.wilded.org/)
  • Organization: BC Spaces for Nature (http://www.wilded.org/)

WildED delivers Nature Education Programs to grades 4 – 12 across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley…. Parks and wilderness are essential to the Canadian persona. If our parks and wilderness legacy is truly to be recognized and passed on to future generations, this next generation of young people must understand the value of wild nature and why and how it needs to be cherished and preserved. WildED takes a unique and original approach to accomplish this, in particular:
– The primary focus is reconnecting youth to wilderness and nature by providing experiential, hands-on programs
– Our educators are professional certified teachers with wildlife and biology backgrounds who are experts in outdoor recreation leadership
– Our advisory steering committee and teacher advisory group is made up of professional teachers, conservationists, business consultants, and outdoors people
– We have alliances and work in collaboration with a broad base of outdoor enthusiasts, teachers, environmental educators, and outdoor schools
– We provide mentorship and follow-up support to foster ongoing learning, action and leadership in youth

http://www.wilded.org/

WilderQuest

  • Author(s): New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service (http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/)
  • Organization: New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service (http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/)

WilderQuest is a program incorporating an online environment and in-nature experiences, developed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to encourage children and their families to spend time in nature. The WilderQuest website has an emphasis on helping Australian children become comfortable with and fascinated by nature. We hope that WilderQuest will inspire children to learn more about nature and Aboriginal and Indigenous Australian culture while having fun.

http://www.wilderquest.nsw.gov.au/#/intro