Getting Kids Outside for Their Daily Mile
Here's a positive story out of Scotland, where a teacher at a small elementary school decided she had to do something about her students' lack…
Kids in Nature
Getting kids back to nature, where they belong
Four Days in August
When you get kids into nature, their faces remind us of what childhood was always meant to be. The smiles. The focused concentration without distraction.…
Letting Kids be Kids on the Vedder River
Last week I learned how easily we can forget the inherent value of simply getting kids into the wild, while letting go of the need…
The Seymour Salmonid Society: Working Miracles to Avert a Disaster
Before a massive rock slide in 2014 threatened to wipe out the salmon and steelhead of North Vancouver's gorgeous Seymour River, few people had ever…
Rice Lake: an Urban Success Story for Kids and Fishing
In his landmark book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Richard Louv wrote: “Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential…
Klein Lake: a Spot for Kids and Kids at Heart
I don't like giving away great fishing spots that are still uncrowded and quiet. But then, one of the main objectives at To the Wild…
Cutthroat for Breakfast
With the limited patience you might expect from a young girl, Bronny loves to fish. More surprisingly, she loves to clean the ones she catches.…
A Natural Harvest
You don't have to launch a wilderness trek to get kids into nature. Even a walk in a local park gives them (and you) that…
Fishing with Bronny
While this story is about fishing with a little girl, the important theme is the value of simply getting kids outside, away from monitors and phones and…