Yellowstone Park’s leader: Make nature exciting for kids – "No Child Left Inside"

With changing demographics among visitors to national parks, and some observing that kids increasingly feel less comfortable in nature, it’s time for gateway communities to launch a "no child left inside" program.

That was the message Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Suzanne Lewis delivered to a gathering of business owners and civic leaders Monday in Cody.

"Visitation is going down nationwide in the National Park Service," said Lewis. "For Yellowstone in 2006, we’ll finish up at about a 1-percent drop" from last year.

By RUFFIN PREVOST
Gazette Wyoming Bureau

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