Environmental Education

Take It Outside

Find out about Idaho's Be Outside movement, the latest non-profit organization made up of federal, state, and non-profit organizations dedicated to getting kids off the couch and outside.  Visit the Be Outside website to learn more!

Let's Move Outside - America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids

The Bureau of Land Management's Take It Outside Initiative was prompted by a growing national concern that children are spending significantly less time outdoors that previous generations; becoming more disconnected from nature; and increasingly showing symptons of an epidemic in childhood obesity. These issues were articulated in Richard Louv's 2005 book "Last Child in the Woods."  In response to this problem, BLM and many other Federal agencies are taking on the challenge of attemping to reconnect the Nation's youth and families with the many benefits of spending time outdoors. 

Idaho's Be Outdside initiative has partnered with KIVI Channel 6 news about getting outside.  Visit their website to see interesting ideas and fun activities you can do to get outside and enjoy nature! Click here to see the site. 

 Kids learn about the outdoors
  Kids learn about the Salmon River

 

 

 

 

 





BLM Takes It Outside!

BLM's Take It Outside Initiative focuses on promoting and expanding existing BLM programs that engage children and families in outdoor activitites.  Try some of these family outings.

Family Outings

Other Take It Outside Related Websites:

  • Care Share Campaign: Sharing rangelands respectfully with others. 
  • Idaho Off-Highway Vehicle Information Project: State and federal agencies in Idaho promoting responsible use of off-highway vehicles. 
  • Leave No Trace: Striving to educate all those who enjoy the outdoors about the nature of recreational impacts as well as techniques to prevent and minimize such impacts. 
  • Tread Lightly: Offering a variety of tools to help arm recreationists and the industries that serve them with essential outdoor ethics. 
  • Hands on the Land: a national network of field classrooms connecting students, teachers, and parents to their public lands and waterways. 
  • Be Outside. Idaho Children in Nature: A website dedicated to getting children and families outdoors to enjoy nature. 
  • Learning Landscapes: A national website that provides educational and enrichment opportunities associated with the 258 million acres of public lands that BLM manages for all Americans.  Visitors can get fit, commune, contemplate, serve, renew, revive, and re-center.
  • Idaho Birding Trail:  A network of sites and side-trips that provides the best viewing opportunities to see birds in Idaho.


Taking it Outside with BLM at Craters of the Moon
Children enjoy time outside at Craters of the Moon National Monument

 

Kids enjoy the Little City of Rocks
Students enjoy the Little City of Rocks

 
Kids learn about owls
Students learn about owls at the Owl Hoot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Astorian Fur Trapper Day
BLM teaches students about the Astorian Fur Trappers

Astorian Fur Trappers
"Fur trappers" talk about historical fur trapping.

Kids Learn about different types of habitat
Kids learn about habitats and wildlife at the "Idaho Discoveries" Day Camp.


Students visit Tee Maze Cave
The students inside Tee Maze Cave

Students outside Tee Maze Cave
Students pose for a picture before entering the cave

Students in Black Magic Canyon
Students enjoy Black Magic Canyon

 Students after seeing the canyon
Students cheer after seeing the canyon


Golden Cheeked Warbler
Golden Cheeked Warbler, one of 
the many birds that can be seen 
on the Idaho Birding Trail. 


Free fishing day is another reason to enjoy the outdoors!