Where is YOUR Nearest Federal Public Land?
Every day I get alert after alert after alert about what is happening to OUR, YOUR federal public lands and every day, absolutely no one in the media talks about it, what the Trump administration is doing, selling off YOUR public lands (he is a developer, remember?), oil and gas drilling on your public lands, logging your public lands, grazing away pristine biodiversity on your public lands...EVERY SINGLE DAY I get an alerts like this. "Maybe I won't get anything today," crosses my weary mind. Well, that's an absolute fantasy.
Say what you will about how 'divided' we are as a nation. There is one thing ALL Americans love--OUR PUBLIC LANDS. Go! Look at them. Look at the families, the couples, the solo hikers embracing their freedom, strapping on the backpack, jumping in the lake, casting into that river, launching that kayak. Our Public Lands UNIFY US AS AMERICANS and we all have a stake in preserving them and this means YOU.
There is this idea that these groups, the ever present "they" will take care of all this but "they" are overwhelmed. "PUBLIC" includes all of us, includes you.
Two hours a week? An hour? Where is your nearest federal public land? Look it up. What is happening on it? (Should be on the agency website). Can you spare an hour a week to stay updated? Then go see it. Adopt it.
There is no "they" with a presidency like Donald Trump which is why I am asking you to embrace the excitement and adventure that is determining where your nearest federal land is then adopting it, keep an eye on it, weigh in. USE IT OR LOSE IT is where we might be at this point as parcels are quietly sold off, logged off, grazed to nothing, the benefits going to corporations--your public land. And even as I type, Trump is trying to exempt the USFS from NEPA, the landmark regulation that requires a democratic process for public land use.
So get out the map and/or get on your phone. Where is YOUR closest public federal land? It's yours you know, for now anyway--so go.
Say what you will about how 'divided' we are as a nation. There is one thing ALL Americans love--OUR PUBLIC LANDS. Go! Look at them. Look at the families, the couples, the solo hikers embracing their freedom, strapping on the backpack, jumping in the lake, casting into that river, launching that kayak. Our Public Lands UNIFY US AS AMERICANS and we all have a stake in preserving them and this means YOU.
There is this idea that these groups, the ever present "they" will take care of all this but "they" are overwhelmed. "PUBLIC" includes all of us, includes you.
Two hours a week? An hour? Where is your nearest federal public land? Look it up. What is happening on it? (Should be on the agency website). Can you spare an hour a week to stay updated? Then go see it. Adopt it.
There is no "they" with a presidency like Donald Trump which is why I am asking you to embrace the excitement and adventure that is determining where your nearest federal land is then adopting it, keep an eye on it, weigh in. USE IT OR LOSE IT is where we might be at this point as parcels are quietly sold off, logged off, grazed to nothing, the benefits going to corporations--your public land. And even as I type, Trump is trying to exempt the USFS from NEPA, the landmark regulation that requires a democratic process for public land use.
So get out the map and/or get on your phone. Where is YOUR closest public federal land? It's yours you know, for now anyway--so go.
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