OWNING THE LAND: Are we losing our sense of ownership 
of the outdoors? Coming up on Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife 

Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, spoke to 
a group of educators in San Antonio this summer. He told 
them, as a child, he felt ownership of the woods near his 
home. But today's kids may lack connection to the land.

:59 -- I owned those woods to the extent that as an 8 year old -- I'm 
sorry to tell you -- I pulled out, I think, hundreds of survey stakes 
that I knew had something to do with the bulldozers that were 
taking out other woods. A developer told me a couple years ago I 
would have been a lot more effective if I'd simply moved the stakes 
around. In any case, I was telling the story about pulling out stakes 
at the Cuevera Coalition. And afterwards in the discussion period a 
rancher stood up, and he was sunburned, he was in his sixties, 
white handlebar moustache ... And he said, you know that story you 
told about pulling out survey stakes? And he said, I did that when I 
was a boy. And then he began to cry in front of five hundred people. 
And despite his deep sense of embarrassment, he continued to 
speak about his sense of grief that his might be one of the last 
generations to have that kind of sense of ownership of land that has 
nothing to do with money -- it goes deeper than that. 

Help children connect with the land. Learn more at 
passportotexas.org.

For Texas parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.















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