While some park officials, hoping to compete with video games and iPods, recommend fighting electronics with electronics, Canopy Meg offers a different approach, a more direct route to our roots–or, rather, to our branches: Canopy Walkways.

In this article author, Richard Louv, talks about the importance of tree canopy walkways, children getting time outside in the forests, and CanopyMeg’s experience “treetop-schooling” her sons.

Read the full article at childrenandnature.org

Photo by Carlton Ward

Photo by Carlton Ward