Outdoor educational experiences cannot be replicated inside the classroom, but the pandemic is endangering countless outdoor education programs across the United States. According to a recent policy brief by University of California, Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science, which surveyed nearly 1,000 environmental education and outdoor science schools that serve primarily K-12 learners, 63 percent of such organizations are uncertain whether they will ever open their doors again, if pandemic restrictions last until year's end. These organizations are nature centers and preschools, parks, zoos, aquariums, museums and residential outdoor science schools. For more on this, see our press release at Berkeley News.