Environmental Tips for Individuals: Out in Nature

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Out in Nature

• Trash: When you are out hiking, pick up trash along the way.
• Hiking Tips: Leave No Trace, Outdoor Ethics - provides tips for campers, climbers, and hikers.
• Restoration: Organize a community group to clean up a local stream, highway, park, or beach. For opportunities to do restoration work for a local organization, check out VolunteerMatch.
• Tree-Planting: Form a tree-planting group with family and/or friends: commit to planting and maintaining an agreed-upon number of trees over your life times. Plan regular gatherings for tree-planting and watering. Log your commitments in the United Nations Billion Tree Campaign.
• Parks: Visit and help support local parks. In the U.S., reserve a campsite at a National Park through the U.S. National Park Service Reservation Center or Reserve America (includes some state parks).
• Frogs: In the USA, help to track frog and toad populations through Frogwatch USA.
• Birds: In North America, help to track bird populations through Citizen Science.
• Balloons: Never release balloons outdoors. They frequently find their way to open water (even from 100's of miles away) and can harm or kill turtles, whales, and other marine mammals.
• Stargazing: Stargazing schedule - provides current information about stargazing events.
• Educational Sites:
  • Animals: Animal Diversity Web
  • Biology: The Biology Project
  • Marine Biology: OceanLink
  • Birds: Peterson's Perspective and Introduction to the Aves
  • Microbes: The Microbe Zoo
  • Astronomy: Nine Planets Solar System Tour
  • WWF Fun and Games
  • Environmental Kids Club
  • For Teachers: Environmental Education Resources and Environmental Defense's Teacher's Guide
• Books: Books on nature education.