LOST!…But Found, Safe and Sound

I cried at the Audubon Society Spring Fair this year. It was because I was touched by a DVD the Shenandoah Mountain Rescue Group screened in their tent at the fair. “LOST!… But Found, Safe and Sound” is a film pro­duced by the Association of National Park Rangers that tells the story of a girl who gets lost in the woods overnight, and is found safe the next morn­ing. I can­not begin to imag­ine los­ing my kids in the woods, let alone overnight. I was moved enough to donate a few bucks to sup­port the group’s impor­tant work, and you can donate online too.

Here is a copy of the flier they handed out, which I am shar­ing for edu­ca­tional pur­poses (as per their copy­right permissions).

Click to view/download the PDF

As the film rec­om­mended, I bought my kids whis­tles the very next day. My son is still ask­ing me to buy him a fanny pack to carry his emer­gency sur­vival supplies.