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Outdoor activism is at our fingertips, and it’s easier now than ever before for people to get involved in outdoor organizations. Now’s the time for a new generation of outdoor stewards to take the helm, to advocate for sustainable infrastructure, increase capital investment and efficiency, spearhead local conservation campaigns, and foster a global outdoor community. Children and teenagers are also capable of being fantastic outdoor stewards, and we should excite them with experiential, immersive, and high-quality outdoor-­centric programs. We should make sure that all youth enjoy outdoor recreation and learn outdoor leadership skills and why the natural world needs our protection. One day the world will be in their hands.

I hope that reading this book plays a part in your “outdoor journey.” In the pages that follow I will attempt to convey what being an Outdoor Citizen means to me, and I hope to inspire you to define yourself as one. It is my intention for this book to be a call to action. Outdoor Citizens pay it forward by encouraging outdoor-centric values in others, and I take this work seriously. I will share my love for the outdoors without restraint, and I hope you have an unadulterated love for it in your own life. Respect it, embrace it, and share it!