Skills & Techniques

Leave No Trace Seven Principles Rap

Guest - April 9, 2017

Boulder, CO:  The member-driven Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics protects the outdoors by teaching people to enjoy it responsibly. It is the most widely accepted outdoor ethics program used on public lands. Through targeted education, research and outreach, the Center ensures the long-term health of our natural world.

One way we reach the public is through the creative freedom of our Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers. The Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Trainer program consists of four teams of two educators that travel across the country in Subarus teaching people how to protect and enjoy the outdoors responsibly. The Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers offer programs to the general public, volunteers, youth, nonprofit organizations, friend groups, governmental agencies, and more on Leave No Trace skills and techniques intended to reduce the impact of outdoor activities in communities around the United States. The Traveling Trainers do all of this while traveling and living out of their Subaru, camping over 250 nights a year! In 2015 alone, the Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers will reach 15 million Americans.

This video was written, produced and directed by Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers Team East Central 2016/17.

Enjoy!

If you want to sing along or share the Leave No Trace Seven Principles in a rap here are the lyrics:

Pack it in, Pack it Out. No Need to shout.

We got 7 principles to talk about.

The first when you care, is Plan and Prepare.

When in the outdoors be safe and aware.

The second preserves our natural resources.

So travel and camp on Durable Surfaces.

The third gets ignored until it’s in your face.

Please make sure to dispose of your waste.

Number 4 is a core, for when you explore.

Just leave what you find I have to implore.

5 keeps you alive, but in this syntax.

Minimize campfire impacts.

Protect wildlife and keep your distance.

If you don’t then this beauty you may not witness.

Last but not least be considerate of others.

This is Leave No Trace.

Word to your mothers.

 

Travel Well,

Amanda and Greg – Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Trainer Team East Central

Leave No Trace’s Amanda Neiman and Greg Smith are part of the 2017 Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Trainer Program that provides free, mobile education to communities across the country. Proud partners of this program include Subaru of America, REI, Fjall Raven, ENO, Deuter, Thule, Taxa Outdoors and SmartWool.

Let’s protect and enjoy our natural world together

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