Shrek, Rain and Book Promos, Oh My! Great Outdoors Week 2010
June 23, 2010, by eugeneb
The week was a key component of Great Outdoors Month, a month-long celebration of outdoor recreation in America that includes National Trails Day (June 5), National Fishing and Boating Week (June 5-13), National Get Outdoors Day (June 12), the Great American Backyard Campout (June 26) and National Marina Day (June 12).
For our part, Outdoor Parents, author Eugene Buchanan traveled down to Denver, Colo., on June 12 to participate in its National Get Outdoors Day, organized, it part, by the U.S. Forest Service. There, he met with members of REI’s Outdoor Recreation Information center, the Forest Service, the Continental Trail Alliance and more to help spread the word to get kids outside. He also participated in the city’s largest Chicken Dance, led by none other than the big ogre Shrek in a campaign by Dreamworks to help children get outside.
This year also marks the first year in which all 50 states and the Mayor of the District of Columbia also issued proclamations for Great Outdoors Month, with even President Obama proclaiming June as the time to get outside.
“America’s vast and varied outdoor spaces are a source of great national pride, and we have long strived to protect them for future generations,” says Obama. “Our lands provide countless opportunities for exploration, recreation, and reflection, whether in solitude or with family and friends. During Great Outdoors Month, we renew our enduring commitment to protect our natural landscapes, to enjoy them and to promote active lifestyles for ourselves and our children. These places are especially important today, as an increasing number of Americans, especially children, fall into unhealthy sedentary lifestyles.”
The proclamation highlights current Administration efforts to get Americans healthier through outdoor activity, including the recently launched America’s Great Outdoors Initiative to protect natural landscapes and reconnect Americans to the outdoors, and the First Lady’s Let’s Move effort to help children eat more nutritious foods, lead healthier lives, and increase their physical activity.
Info: www.DOI.gov/AmericasGreatOutdoors, www.LetsMove.gov, www.funoutdoors.com
Celebrating the outdoors during Nat'l Get Outdoors WeekThe Author and the Ogre, both trying to get kids outside.
The nation is taking note. That’s the take-away from the American Recreation Coalition, which wrapped up its Great Outdoors Week 2010 (June 7-12) in Washington, D.C., with recreation leaders, groups and government agency partners gathering for briefings, events and celebrations of getting people (and kids) outdoors.
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