"Education is simply the soul of society as it passes from one generation to another" Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The principal goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things.... not simply repating what other generations have done" Jean Piaget
Hands on the Land (HOL) is a network of field classrooms stretching across America from Alaska to Florida. HOL is sponsored by Partners in Resource Education, a collaboration of five Federal agencies, a non-profit foundation, schools, and other private sector partners.
This website is produced and maintained by the Environmental Education and Volunteers Group of the Bureau of Land Management (commonly called BLM). It presents learning opportunities associated with the 261 million acres of public lands that BLM manages for all Americans.
BCR’s CDP stands for the Collaborative Digitization Program, a division of BCR focused on helping museums, libraries and cultural heritage institutions keep pace with changes in digital and archived information.
