TV Turn Off Week at Forsythe NWR Photo: USFWS

Campfire Sing-Along to "Songs of the System: Photo: USFWS

Families Turn off their TVs and Tune Info Forsythe Photo: USFWS

Families flocked to Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in support of National TV Turn Off Week.   Over 90 participants brought picnic baskets and enjoyed a family dinner together in the refuge's picnic grove.  Refuge volunteers led eager participants on nature walks and, for the first time ever, a campfire sing-along led by volunteers Barry Keefe and Marcia, was held -- the perfect way to end the evening!

National TV Turn Off Week is the first nationwide effort to target the medium of television and ask that people re-assess the role TV plays in their daily lives as entertainer, pacifier, babysitter, time filler and background noise.  (source: http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/turnoffweek/TV.turnoff.week.html).  Through their schools, kids are asked to pledge to turn off their TVs and explore screen-free activities.