Bird on Lake Wisconsin. Photo by Carl Johnson.

Approximately 650 people crowded into a concert hall at the University of Minnesota–Minneapolis to discuss conservation, recreation and how to reconnect Americans with the outdoors. Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Nancy Sutley, Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); and senior representatives from the United States Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Interior (DOI) attended the “listening session” as part of the Obama administration’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative. Read more