They shut the road through the woods / Seventy years ago. / Weather and rain have undone it again, / And now you would never know / There was once a road through the woods.
Favorite Links
No Child Left Inside
- Building Bridges to the Outdoors (Sierra Club Youth Program)
- Hooked on Nature
- Connecting Children With Nature
- National Environmental Education Foundation
- KidsGardening.org
- The Green Hour
- Free Range Kids blog
- Nature Rocks
- Children & Nature Network
- Richard Louv's Blog
- KOA Camping with Kids Page
- A Little Campy Family camping blog
- PEAK (Promoting Environmental Awareness in Kids)
- AZ Writer "Backpacking, Bubbles, Bugs & Boogers"
- Frog Mom
- Nature Canada
- Christodora: environmental education and leadership training for New York City public school students
- Scout Pack & Troop 187
- US Outdoor Hiking Resource Guide
- Adventure Parents
- Tinkergarten outdoor activities for kids
NYC & Urban Nature
- Sea and Sky New York blog
- The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club
- The Linnaean Society of New York
- Prospect Park
- NYC Parks Department
- Register for Urban Park Rangers' free events
- Million Trees NYC
- NY Restoration Project community gardens and green spaces
- The Natural Capital "Getting outside, inside the beltway."
- Backyard and Beyond blog about nature in Brooklyn
- Urban Wildlife Guide
- The City Birder
- NYC Wildflower Week
- Nature Block Party National Urban Biodiversity Week
- The Brooklyn Bird Club
- GrowNYC NYC greenmarkets, recycling, and much more!
- Canoe & Kayak Launch Sites in NYC
- NYC Water Trail Association Site includes a long list of community boating groups around the city.
- Nature Calendar "An informative and entertaining blog about the flora, fauna, and phenomena you can witness right here in the city."
- Shorewalkers environmental and outdoors group dedicated to promoting and preserving New York City's surrounding shores
- Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy's Enviromedia Mobile
- WildMetro "Protecting nature where we live."
- NYC Park Advocates
- Urban Swim
The Environment & Activism
- The Wilderness Society
- Transportation Alternatives
- National Wildlife Federation
- Appalachian Mountain Club
- Adirondack Mountain Club
- NYC Hudson River Valley Greenway
- Harlem Valley Rail Trail"
- Cape Cod Rail Trail
- Riverkeeper
- One World, One Ocean
- How Clean is Your Electricity? Look it up by zip code!
- Sierra Club's Daily Ray of Hope An email a day of a beautiful photo and inspirational quotation.
- National Parks Conservation Association
- League of Conservation Voters
- Leave No Trace
- American Hiking Society
- Center for Invasive Species & Ecosystem Health
- Restore America's Estuaries
- The American Littoral Society
- Outdoor Nation Be an "Outsider."
- Living Lands and Waters
Fun & Informative
- Project Noah citizen science
- The Night Sky at Space.com
- Butterflies and Moths of North America
- e-Nature
- Discover the Forest
- All About Birds (Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology)
- Native Plant Information Network
- Eat the Invaders "fighting invasive species, one bite at a time"
- Be Plantwise useful resource on invasive species and gardening
- David Fischer's American Mushrooms lots of interesting facts and photos
- Live Science Image of the Day
- Nature Blog Network
- National Toy Hall of Fame
- Corn Mazes America map & directory
- All of Nature
- Earthcache —like geocaching but the "cache" is an activity
- Amateur Astronomers Association
- Zooniverse Citizen Science projects
- WinterCampers.com
- Pocket Ranger State Parks & Wildlife Apps
- Geocaching.com
- BugGuide.net
- AMC Outdoors' Equipped blog Great gear guide.
Festivals
- Celebrate Brooklyn!
- Clearwater Great Hudson River Revival
- Gathering of the Vibes
- Green Apple Music & Arts Festival
- Grey Fox Bluegrass
- Mountain Jam
- Strange Creek & Wormtown
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