It's not enough to just celebrate #LCW2020, we can use this week & this conversation to raise awareness of critical outdoor & outside issues affecting Black & Brown communities. Here are some of the articles we highlighted on our #StayHome
page recently: https://grist.org/fix/the-joys-and-challenges-of-exploring-nature-while-black/

"Estas instrucciones son necesarias, pero se basan en la suposición de que todo el mundo tiene el privilegio de acceder a espacios abiertos y que serán igualmente afectados cuando éste se les quite."
#LCW2020 https://www.hcn.org/articles/en-espanol-los-costos-desiguales-de-un-cierre-parejo
#LCW2020 https://www.hcn.org/articles/en-espanol-los-costos-desiguales-de-un-cierre-parejo
"I’ve had enough. The time is now to examine the ways the #BlackLivesMatter
movement and environmentalism are linked." - @Leahtommi https://www.vogue.com/article/why-every-environmentalist-should-be-anti-racist/amp?fbclid=IwAR3BkMbCnwnKopicJUx8Tb7bkZSqi5G-1QmhwczAoN0ulMG_Sp90A3na0mY&__twitter_impression=true

"The trail that John Muir explored—the 210-mile route through the High Sierra backcountry that now bears his name—is actually an ancestral Paiute trade route." - Jaylyn Gough, @NativeWomens https://www.outsideonline.com/2309726/jaylyn-gough-asks-whose-land-are-you-exploring
"There's a quiet privilege to forgetting history. There’s also a sin in omitting it. We forge stronger ties to our public lands by knowing them from their inception." - @1blackbirder https://www.audubon.org/news/what-we-lose-when-we-forget-history-our-public-lands
"Some Park officials determined where, when and how black people could recreate, if they were allowed to recreate at all. Jim Crow laws ensured that certain spaces were off limits, that non-white bodies were intruders in that space and did not belong." https://yoursole.com/blog/us/diversity-is-not-a-hashtag