NEWS & NOTES FROM THE FIELD 

Words by Ali Shand. For a second, I want you to put yourself in the shoes of a 9-year-old. Imagine its first thing in the morning and you’re on a bus on the way to somewhere you’ve likely never been before. You get off the bus sometime later, and are greeted by a handful of ultra enthusiastic adults who present you with a line of cones and ask you how connected to nature you feel. ’Seriously?!’ you think, ‘I’m literally  half an hour from my coco pops and you’re asking me abo