1.   As part of one course, he worked in a wilderness program and became interested in camping as spiritual and religious therapy.

2.   But even with periodic problems of missing youth, Peterson and other Redcliff officials defended the wilderness program as an effective tool for troubled and at-risk youth.

3.   Children have been hurt at boot camps and wilderness programs for years.

4.   In the wasteland of juvenile corrections in Georgia, wilderness programs are oases of rehabilitation.

5.   Invest in wilderness programs.

6.   Michael Conner, who runs a nonprofit consumer protection organization for wilderness therapy programs, said parents had to assume some responsibility for the safety of their children.

7.   Oliver Keller, a retired Florida and Illinois corrections official who is now a volunteer advocate for anti-boot camp wilderness programs like the Sylvania program, disagrees.

8.   Prince Philip was in San Francisco for a benefit supporting Outward Bound, the wilderness survival program that was used as a model for the Urban Pioneers.

9.   Some, such as Fulton County Juvenile Judge Glenda Johnson, criticize wilderness programs for containing a disproportionately small number of black youths.

10.   Teenagers at a camp in Naples, Idaho, that offers a wilderness therapy program, part of what has become a multibillion-dollar industry.