Seven months ago, San Gabriel Valley-area community leaders and environmentalists sent a message to President Barack Obama: We need more parks, we need more exercise and we need your help.
He has finally responded.
Obama announced last week a widespread effort to bring greater outdoor opportunities to Americans, particularly to urban youth, and reinvigorate efforts to conserve the nation's natural resources. He proposed increasing funding for conservation efforts, overhauling the way the nation's public lands are managed, and developing a conservation service corps for young people to work on public lands.
"These days, our lives are only getting more complicated, more busy, and we're glued to our phones and our computers for hours on end ... Cars and buses shuttle us from one place to another. We see our kids spending more and more time on the couch. For a lot of folks, it's easy to go days without stepping on a single blade of grass," Obama said announcing the initiative.
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