Fish and wildlife news: special issue on children and nature

This special edition of Fish & Wildlife News provides a glimpse of what Service employees from coast to coast are already doing to reconnect children with nature. From the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, where youngsters sample brine shrimp in the salt ponds or investigate bird and plant life with their parents, to the Chesapeake Bay Field Office, where students create schoolyard habitats outside their classroom door, our land base and our people are helping folks of every age to get outdoors. But we can always do more. We should look for opportunities to connect children and families to nature as we go about our daily work and help them share in our conservation mission. (FWS Director Dale Hall). Includes a forward by Richard Louv, a short piece on the international polar bear conference at NCTC,