Obama launches 'Great Outdoors initiative

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama launched a new initiative Friday to conserve cherished land and encourage more Americans to enjoy the outdoors.
The president said the "America's Great Outdoors" program will involve a series of listening sessions throughout the nation to solicit an array of ideas.
Obama said conservation is an integral part of economic growth, and that his new program also will create jobs. He promised that it won't be a big federal program driven from Washington.
The initiative will be led by the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, White House Council on Environmental Quality and departments of Agriculture and Interior. Obama is to receive a report by Nov. 15 outlining an action plan to both reconnect Americans to nature and enhance conservation efforts.

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Why not? Are we starting to believe the rw memes that the federal gov't is the enemy.

FDR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

Quality and the Departments of Agriculture and Interior. ..

Whew! Good thing it won't be a big federal program driven from Washington!

He just keeps checking off items on his monumental "to do" list and he hasn't once told us that "it's hard work"

get Americans engaged!@

I'm there..in that big outdoors! He's gonna love my interpretation..moving back to Kaui'i and soaking up the sun and surfB-)

not to mention every derelict lot ignored by slumlords.