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'Outdoor Adventure' classes teach children the lost art of connecting with nature

The classes will teach children old ways to interact with nature that are new to them.
Credit: JJ Maldonado
Park Interpreter Boyd Sanders gives tips to a group of students during Tyler State Park's "Lost in the Forest Hike" program.

TYLER, Texas — Boyd Sanders, park interpreter at Tyler State Park, is leading a five-week series of Outdoor Adventure classes for children ages 6 to 12 alternating between the state park and the Glass Recreation Center.

The classes will teach children old ways to interact with nature that are new to them, such as using maps and binoculars, packing a backpack for an outdoor trip and how to fish.

“We are trying to introduce the outdoors and new skills to children who may have never had that experience,” Sanders said.

Read more from CBS19's newspaper partners, the Tyler Morning Telegraph.

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