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The Youth Strategy

Youth in rural and wildland areas require special attention. The Lasting Forests concept includes active plans to retain youth in the region for their own and for the future benefits of the rural environment.

Urban society cannot allow rural people to be lost. They are a vital, irreplaceable resource. The experience, knowledge, abilities, and interest in food and fiber production cannot be called up or demanded. Lasting Forests and their neighbors must favor retention of a superior population. To these ends, the Youth Strategy is one of:

1. Encouraging 2-5 family child care experiences, allowing mothers to work nearby their children and allowing shared-child care opportunities (while minimizing energy costs and travel time), e.g., "mother's day out."

2. Encouraging innovation in quality teen day and evening activities (as much care as for small children).

3. Providing safe opportunities for the types of fun for teens like a community centers throughout the region with organized activities:

• monthly or holiday-related dances
• transportation to dances between communities
• dancing lessons
• painting lessons and shows
• pottery and sculpture
• novosport activities and contests
• picnics
• music groups (with performance outlets)
• supervised race tracks
• mechanic shops

5. Holding agricultural contests within existing groups or with new Lasting Forests groups.

6. Sponsoring visits by race drivers and advisors, exhibitions, and instruction and holding safe driving contests.

7. Arranging regular expeditions to shopping malls with busses, etc.

8. Developing meaningful work with wages in the enterprises listed herein as well as in conventional jobs

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