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The Leave No Trace e-tour, sponsored by the Coleman Company, brings hands-on Leave No Trace demonstrations, interactive activities and general Leave No Trace education to schools, camps and youth-serving organizations from May through August. The team also travels to select retailers specializing in Coleman outdoor products in order to promote Leave No Trace information to kids and families. The e-tour provides basic Leave No Trace education programs that inspire youth to get outside while promoting responsible enjoyment of the outdoors.
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The e-tour provides hands-on educational workshops and information. Each stop is unique, from a half-hour workshop to a full-day booth display. These programs are designed to introduce kids to the outdoors and peak their interest in outdoor recreation and stewardship.
The 2010 e-tour team is getting set to hit the road on July 1st and will be on the road until late October. To learn more and see their schedule, please view their calendar ( + )
Peggy and Barrett have shared a love for the outdoors for more than 30 years, and look forward to bringing their understanding of natural (Peggy) and cultural (Barrett) heritage to the Leave No Trace e-tour. As 3rd Coast flatlanders, they thrill at the view from the top of some prominent mountain crag, but through experience, have learned to more fully appreciate the richness of the journey to get there. As part of their own journey, they have bicycled through Europe, worked at a summer camp in the Cumberland Plateau, kayaked the estuarine waters of the Gulf Coast, and lived variously in Blacksburg, VA, Tupelo, MS, Corvallis, OR, Baton Rouge, LA, and Rome, Italy. They’re likely to be found dancing around their kitchen on Saturday nights to the music of American Routes on NPR.
A very special thank you to Coleman, our title sponsor, for their support of the 2010 e-tour.
Additional thanks to Marmot and Subaru for their support.
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Barrett Kennedy is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and he grew up with an appreciation for the swamps, marshes, and beaches of the United States’ “3rd Coast” at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. He spent countless hours in a pirogue (the traditional paddle-powered watercraft of South Louisiana) exploring the serpentine bayous and sloughs that characterize the Gulf’s estuarine waters. When he was young, Barrett’s family took memorable summer trips to the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, and later, he spent carefree, barefoot summers at a rustic camp in the sweet clean air and star-studded skies of the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee (where he lived in a 100 year-old log cabin, was serenaded by rain on a tin roof, quenched his thirst with draughts from a cold, mountain spring, and became acquainted with the appropriate technology of outhouses).
Barrett is an alumnus of Tulane University, and received graduate degrees in Architecture and Environmental Design and Planning from Virginia Tech. In between graduate degrees, he worked as a Historical Architect with the US National Park Service and spent three years designing and supervising heritage conservation projects at Mt Rainier National Park. His interest in sustainable cultural and natural resource management practices grew out of a concern for the impacts of development within National Parks and similar settings. He is a professor at Louisiana State University, where he has spent the past twenty years teaching environmental planning and design practices, documenting the cultural heritage of the Gulf South, and advocating a minimally invasive, interdisciplinary approach to resource conservation as the best means to ensure sustainability of our fragile, irreplaceable natural and cultural legacy.
As a proponent of service-learning, Barrett has participated in programs with Operation Comeback, Outward Bound, NOLS, and Wilderness Volunteers, and has drawn from these experiences to inform his teaching and research at LSU. In the Baton Rouge setting, Barrett is a dedicated bicycle commuter and lap-swimmer. When the call of wilderness beckons, he and Peggy travel to the Pacific Northwest and the Appalachians to hike and camp. However, as a native of South Louisiana, he still feels more at home on the water than on land, and he likes nothing better than to spend a fine day simply messing about in boats. He has (reluctantly, but wisely) exchanged his pirogue for a touring kayak, and is most content when exploring the waterways of the Atchafalaya Basin, Lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi Sound, and beyond…
Peggy Reily’s love for the outdoors also started very young, messing in boats on a bayou near Lake Pontchartrain, completely unaware that just about a mile east on another bayou young Barrett was paddling his pirogue as well. You could almost say that they had parallel lives before they knew of each other’s existence, because as she grew up she also spent summers in the mountains of Tennessee at a summer camp, exploring the prodigiously rich poplar and hemlock forests of the Cumberland Plateau, canoeing on spring-fed lakes and swimming in the rhododendron-shaded pools of deep mountain coves. As a counselor she began teaching natural history to campers, from daytime wildflower walks to nighttime star talks.
Peggy’s fascination with nature shaped her college studies, as she specialized in Field Biology in the shadow of Pikes Peak at Colorado College. She went on to receive a Masters degree in Forest Ecology from Virginia Tech, studying the riparian forests of the Missouri River basin in North Dakota. Research also took her to the riparian forests of headwater streams in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and to the Platte River in Nebraska.
For the past twenty years Peggy has lived in Baton Rouge with Barrett and their two children. Her activities have included coaching soccer teams, teaching tennis, and assisting with a support program for teenage mothers. To satisfy her appetite for natural science, she has spent time conducting botanical research at LSU, developing a hands-on science program at an elementary school, serving on the board of two nature preserves, and creating a comprehensive exhibit on invasive species for a local nature center.
Some of her most enjoyable summers were spent with her children and Barrett once again on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, where she served as a camp counselor, teaching tennis and giving guided tours of the brilliant night skies. Her lifetime of athletic pursuits has evolved into a regimen of hiking, biking, and swimming, with a kayak outing periodically thrown in for good measure. Although she confesses to being a devoted, all-be-it fair-weather, fan of LSU baseball, she redeems herself by spending most Saturday nights dancing in the kitchen with Barrett to Cajun, Zydeco and bluegrass music broadcast by their local public radio station.
