Try Georgia State University's "Touch the Earth
Program"  you can reach them at www.GSU.edu.  You want
the Student Recreation Department. They have an
extensive backpacking program and may be able to offer
you some advice.

--- Andy Beard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I am writing from the Charles A. Lindbergh Historic
> Site in Little Falls,
> MN.  We are seeking any information about organizing
> a new nature backback
> program on our trail along the Mississippi River.
>
> I need some help in deciding what we can place into
> the pack: plastic
> binoculars for bird watching, water testing tools,
> insect guides, flower
> and plant identification guides, etc.
>
> I want this program to be for elementary or middle
> school students and in
> the summer they will be family nature backpacks.
>
> Does anyone have any info related to this or know of
> any museums that
> utilize a similar program?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy Beard
> Site Manager
> www.mnhs.org/lindbergh
>
>
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