Obama administration officials will host a White House Conference on America’s Great Outdoors on Friday, April 16.  Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, and Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, are leading the conference, which will "address the challenges, opportunities and innovations surrounding modern-day land conservation" and the importance of reconnecting Americans to the outdoors. Participants will include working ranchers and farmers, sportsmen and women, state and local government leaders, tribal leaders, public lands experts, conservationists, youth leaders, business representatives and others who view the outdoors as integral to their communities.