America's Great Outdoor Initiative- We Need Youth to Come!

NOTICE OF A PUBLIC LISTENING SESSION ON THE PRESIDENT’S AMERICA’S GREAT OUTDOORS INITIATIVE

Denver-Metro Youth Session

When: Friday - July 16, 2010, 11 to 12:30 pm

Where: Denver Marriott West, 1717 Denver West Blvd, Golden, CO 80401

Please join senior representatives from the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), the White House

Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for public listening sessions and discussions in Colorado on conservation, recreation, and reconnecting people to the outdoors.

This past April, at the White House Conference on America’s Great Outdoors, President Obama signed a memorandum establishing the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative to develop a conservation agenda worthy of the 21st century and to reconnect Americans with our great outdoors. The President understands that protecting and restoring the lands and waters that we love and reconnecting people to the outdoors must happen at the local level.

Therefore, President Obama directed the principal leaders of the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative to travel across the country to listen and learn from people directly involved in finding grassroots solutions to conserve our lands, waterways, historical and cultural resources, and reconnect Americans to the outdoors. The

President indicated that the sessions should engage the full range of interested groups, including tribal leaders, farmers and ranchers, sportsmen, community park groups, foresters, youth groups, businesspeople, educators, State and local governments, recreation and conservation groups, and others.

These Colorado listening sessions offer an opportunity for us to engage in a conversation about the solutions you and your community have created to address the challenges and opportunities facing land and water conservation; for engaging people in outdoor activities (especially those in urban areas), including through recreation; and in restoring and conserving our vital natural and cultural resources.

Please Register:

This event is free and open to the public. For planning purposes, it would be helpful if you would pre-register by Monday, July 12 by sending an email to jack_placchi@blm.gov with your name, the name of the organization with which you are affiliated, if any, your telephone number and email address. We will endeavor to accommodate everyone.

In the event you are unable to participate in person, please submit your comments and ideas via the America’s Great Outdoors website at http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/.

If you have any questions, please call the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado Office of Communications
at (303) 239-3700.