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OUTSIDE MATTERS
The Trust for Public Land
April 2021
We need your help to bring more parks to more people in more places. This Earth Month, we're asking you to use your outside voice to call on Congress to pass the Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act. Need some inspiration? Here are stories about people who've used their outside voices to make this world we share a better place.
IN THIS ISSUE:
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* "What would Jim do?"
* Five leaders championing parks and public lands in Washington, DC
* The battle for belonging at one California beach
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Updates across the country
* New Vermont community-owned forest keeps outdoor adventure in the lesson plan
* Expanding New Mexico's hidden gem: the Sabinoso Wilderness Area
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"What would Jim do?"
Longtime Seattlites will tell you that nobody shaped the region's public life over the past 50 years more than Jim Ellis. Today, the late civic leader's can-do spirit is still guiding communities toward a healthy, livable future, through projects like the Mountains to Sound Greenway, a 100-mile corridor of public lands that connects downtown Seattle to the rugged Cascade Mountains.
Learn more: www.tpl.org/blog/mountains-to-sound-greenway-jim-ellis-seattle-puget-sound-washington?utm_source=digital&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=outsidematters&utm_content=april-2021-jimellis
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Five leaders championing parks and public lands in Washington, DC
Do your elected officials believe in the power of parks and public lands to make Americans' lives better? Here are five women leaders, from both sides of the aisle, whose commitment to improving outdoor access for all is making a difference in communities across the country.
Learn more: www.tpl.org/blog/women-park-champions-harris-haaland-murkowski-barragan-collins?utm_source=digital&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=outsidematters&utm_content=april-2021-dcwomenvoices
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The battle for belonging at one California beach
Historian Alison Rose Jefferson shares the ways Black people have pushed back against and overcome generations of discrimination for their rights to use public spaces and connect with the natural world, and how the fight for outdoor equity continues today.
Learn more: www.tpl.org/blog/alison-rose-jefferson-historian-bruces-beach-manhattan-beach-california?utm_source=digital&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=outsidematters&utm_content=april-2021-allisonrosejefforsonqanda
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In the spotlight
Tell Congress: Tell Congress you're all in for outdoors
From visiting your neighborhood park to taking an epic camping trip, spending time outside delivers profound benefits. And yet, nearly 1 in 3 Americans doesn't have a park close to home--that includes 28 million kids. And parks serving primarily communities of color are half the size of parks in majority white neighborhoods and serve five times more people per acre. We can change this, but we need your help. This Earth Month, use your outside voice: Tell your representative to pass the Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act, a $500 million emergency investment to bring more parks to more people in more places.
Sign the Petition: www.tpl.org/earth-month?utm_source=digital&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=outsidematters&utm_content=april-2021-earthmonth
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Updates across the country
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New Vermont community-owned forest keeps outdoor adventure in the lesson plan
The Trust for Public Land teamed up with the Town of Huntington and the Vermont Land Trust to create Huntington Community Forest. Immediately adjacent to the Brewster-Pierce Memorial School in the heart of Huntington, Vermont, the 245-acre property provides the school with an outdoor classroom where kids can learn about the natural world every day, all year long--no permission slip required.
Watch video:
www.tpl.org/blog/huntington-community-forest-vermont-outdoor-learning-environmental-education?utm_source=digital&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=outsidematters&utm_content=april-2021-onefromtheeast
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Expanding New Mexico's hidden gem: the Sabinoso Wilderness Area
Later this year, New Mexico's Sabinoso Wilderness Area will more than double in size when The Trust for Public Land donates nearly 10,000 acres to the Bureau of Land Management. Visitors can soon explore this beautiful canyon country thanks to increased and improved access to this remote landscape of piñon pine and juniper woodlands, grasslands, streams, and high, narrow mesas.
Learn more: www.tpl.org/our-work/ca%C3%B1on-ciruela?utm_source=digital&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=outsidematters&utm_content=april-2021-onefromthewest
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Upcoming events
Park Bench Chat: Harnessing the power of design for healthier, resilient, and just cities
Join us for an Earth Month Park Bench Chat bringing together three leaders in the movement to put our cities to work for community, social justice, health, and climate resilience. On April 21, Trust for Public Land President and CEO Diane Regas will be in conversation with designer, urbanist, and spatial justice expert Liz Ogbu and Dana Bourland, vice president of the Environment Program at The JPB Foundation.
Register now: tpl.zoom.us/webinar/register/9816166945881/WN_V-o2nabxSwixcNDlgX10zg
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Why Outside Matters
This Earth Month, we're revisiting our conversation with Arturo Sandoval, who helped organize the first Earth Day in 1970.
Learn more: www.tpl.org/blog/earth-day-arturo-sandoval?utm_source=digital&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=outsidematters&utm_content=april-2021-eathdayqanda
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More stories for you
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Saving farmland is a sweet deal for New Hampshire maple producers
Another maple syrup season is coming to an end in New England. Here's how Trust for Public Land supporters are helping one longtime maple producer ensure his New Hampshire orchard will keep growing for generations to come.
Learn more: www.tpl.org/blog/pearl-farm-conservation-maple-syrup-loudon-new-hampshire?utm_source=digital&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=outsidematters&utm_content=april-2021-fallback
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Ways to give
Limited-time 3X match opportunity
Thanks to a matching gift offer, every dollar donated online to The Trust for Public Land before midnight on April 16 will be matched with two more dollars, up to $250,000, and will greatly aid our efforts to reclaim, repair, and restore public lands and create community parks across the United States. Make your tax-deductible gift now for 3X the impact.
Donate now: contacts.tpl.org/site/Donation2?df_id=17375&mfc_pref=T&17375.donation=form1&utm_source=april_enews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=spring_match&autologin=true&s_subsrc=april_enews
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