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🧵 5 Watching him learn, grow and be curious when we are out on trail or sitting in a flower patch is the best. I get a front row seat to him learning new skills, laughing, hanging with friends, connecting with family members, enjoying toddlerhood most of which takes place on our local public lands.

🧵 4 Public lands allowed me to process the end of so many relationships & foster connections in budding relationships. Currently it is my favorite place to mother my son.

🧵 3 For me public lands are where I (and my family) go to have fun, learn, and take a break. Public lands are where we go to explore and reconnect with ourselves. Some of my best work programs have come from going for a trial run/ hike.

I'm asking you to do it anyway. Public lands have multiple benefits: improving personal physical and emotional health, building community, stimulating the economy in recreation and tourism, providing wildlife habitat protection of water sources, historical significance: the list is truly endless.