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the Outdoors: In March, 35 students from Crenshaw
High School in central Los Angeles spent a weekend learning
camping and wilderness skills at Point Mugu State Park
near Malibu, California. The weekend was organized by
the Sierra Club’s Inside the Outdoors program in
conjunction with California State Parks in an effort to
increase demand for outdoor environmental education programs
for underserved youth. “I’ve never felt so
close to all of my schoolmates,” said senior Celeste
Palomino. “The natural environment is just so peaceful;
I guess it just has that effect on people.” The
weekend included a “living history” presentation
by the Tenth Calvary Unit of the New Buffalo Soldiers,
giving students an understanding of the role African Americans
played in the settling of the West. On Sunday the students
were addressed by Juan Martinez, a 19-year-old Dorsey
High School graduate and youth spokesman for the Sierra
Club’s Inside the Outdoors initiative, who recently
completed an 80-day Outward Bound trip in Colorado. Martinez
explained the importance of outdoor experiences in helping
him stay away from gangs, develop leadership skills, and
choose to pursue a career in environmental law. |
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June 2004
Feature Stories
Club, Cheney Face Off at Supreme Court
Club Members Elect New Directors
Club Honors Staff
Sprawlbusters! Ann Arbor Opts
for Open Space
How the Bush Administration Undermined
Superfund ...and Everything Else
Plus
Something Stinks, Forest
Service to Examine Off-Road Vehicle Rules, Clubbeat,
State Field Report, and Who
We Are. |
