Woodpuppy,
it’s good to hear that those traits, or habits, are being passed down. Every year at salmon camp, my buddies kids, and all of us adults, clean the trash up where we fish. It’s become a special moment for the kids, they look forward to the fishing and campfire, but they really get excited about cleaning it up. The same thing goes for bout beaches here…. We get so many tourists that our beaches become littered with cigarette butts, tissue, and all sorts of other crap. Both where I live and when I lived in Ohio, we have river cleanups, where we pick up trash on the shores and waterway.
I’ll sometimes see friends or acquaintances on social media posting their cleanups as well. Not everyone practices LNT, or knows about it, but it IS refreshing to see people of all ages doing their part