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Camp Directors’ Beliefs Regarding Nature-Deficit Disorder and Camp
Penny A. James, Karla A. Henderson, and Barry Garst (2008)

Camp Revival
Richard Louv (2006)

Teaching Campers to be Stewards of the Environment
Ben Lawhon (2005)

Food for Thought! Giving Kids a Natural World of Good. Putting Environmental Education Theory into Practice
Heather Montgomery (2005)

Environmental Ethics Giving Kids a Natural World of Good — Program, Facility, and Business Practices
Grace Reddy and Andrew Boyd-Goodrich (2005)

Nature IS the Program
Virginia D. Bourdeau (2005)

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