The Great American Backyard Campout

Campout event "can be an awesomely powerful way to reconnect with the planet"

This excerpt is from a Huffington Post article

This Saturday, June 26, is the annual Great American Backyard Campout, organized by the National Wildlife Federation. Camping out in your backyard is a great activity, whether you have kids or not (although, I suppose it depends on your neighborhood). It can be an awesomely powerful way to reconnect with the planet and get over some fears of nature and darkness.

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The thing you realize when you've camped out a few times is that it's usually not nature that you need to be afraid of, it's other people. However, nature is nothing to be sanguine about--as evidenced by the flash flood in Arkansas that killed 20 people at a campground a few weeks ago. Go to the Great American Backyard Campout website for safety tips and ideas on how to make it an experience your whole family will enjoy and remember (fondly!).

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