National parks try to attract younger generation

[Teegate]

This news video pretty much could be talking about the Pine Barrens. With the youth not being interested in them as they should be, the pines will eventually become irrelevant.

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/47578862/#47578862

 

[Boyd]

If the kids don't have the proper values, I think the parents are mostly to blame....

 

[manumuskin]

Plug em in and forget about em.
I took the kids to the Pa mountains maybe twelve years ago and I got down in the creek and started flipping rocks,about the third rock I made a grab and came up with a six inch mudpuppy.The kids wanted to know what i had,next thing you know they were all flipping rocks (little microhabitat destroyers) and all were catching mudpuppies,crawdads,leeches and assorted other salamanders.They loved it and still talk about it.This is what i grew up doing whenever I went to family in WV or IND and finding red backs under boards in NJ.All the kids were girls too!I wonder if they have video games of salamander and crawdad hunting and do you really get wet playing?

 

[NJChileHead]

Plug em in and forget about em.
I took the kids to the Pa mountains maybe twelve years ago and I got down in the creek and started flipping rocks,about the third rock I made a grab and came up with a six inch mudpuppy.The kids wanted to know what i had,next thing you know they were all flipping rocks (little microhabitat destroyers) and all were catching mudpuppies,crawdads,leeches and assorted other salamanders.They loved it and still talk about it.This is what i grew up doing whenever I went to family in WV or IND and finding red backs under boards in NJ.All the kids were girls too!I wonder if they have video games of salamander and crawdad hunting and do you really get wet playing?

Do I ever agree with you there. My wife and I and another couple were out yesterday with our sons, both 4 years old, and we were observing frogs, crayfish, salamanders, etc. There isn't anything like it. I love watching how much fun the kids have doing this!

 

[manumuskin]

I'd catch salamanders all day,when my dad figured out what i was doing he took my catch for fish bait.From then on I hid my bucket and told him I wasn't finding anything.I let everything go at the end of the day.I found out you don't keep salamanders and crawdads in the same bucket.The dads eat em.