By Sara Novak / Source: Ecosalon

Dave Freeman is the cofounder of Wilderness Classroom, an advocacy group that reminds kids to explore the great outdoors. You don’t have to go far in our country to find adventure, so get going.

“It’s a big, wild world,” said Freeman, “and I want you to go out and explore it.”

Freeman and his wife Amy recently completed a 100 day, 2,000 mile canoe trip from Minnesota to Washington D.C. to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Signed in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson, the act established the 758 wilderness areas covering almost 110 million acres across the nation, according to USDA.

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