America's Great Outdoors Initiative

In April, President Obama launched America's Great Outdoors Initiative to promote and support innovative community-level efforts to conserve outdoor spaces and to reconnect people to the land.

As a central-point of the initiative, “listening sessions" have been set up in a dozen cities to learn how to reconnect Americans to the outdoors and to build upon state, local, private, and tribal conservation initiatives targeted at conservation of both public and private land. Representatives from Obama’s Administration, including the Department of Agriculture, Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, and the White House Council on Environmental Quality will attend the sessions. Please share your ideas for how the Administration can better protect our national parks and the lands that surround them and help us to ensure that national parks play a central role in this important White House initiative.

Your action item if you choose to participate: Tell Obama’s Administration about Leave No Trace’s critical role in this process.

For more information or to find a listening session in your neck of the woods, visit: http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/