August 24, 2024
Many of you signed the letter to Deb Haaland, Department of the Interior, asking her to save more than 1,000 trees in Rock Creek Park. The National Park Service knows we are here and care about the trees and the life-giving work they do for all of nature.
After Issue #26: On Behalf of Rock Creek Park went out into the world, I received this email from Trish O’Kane, author of Birding to Change the World.“ There’s been a bump in the petition signatures. THANK YOU, KATHARINE!” All thanks go to you, my friends. You did this.
I’ve tended to this petition because I don’t understand why we lease public land to bad actors like oil companies. But I was so clueless that I did not know that public land is also leased out as golf courses. The thoughtful alternatives from Sam Krause’s group were rejected by the National Park Service (NPS) because they didn’t fit the golf course lease. As one of my golfer friends remarked yesterday, trees and turf don’t go together.
Hmmmm.
Trees lower temperatures in cement cities by ten degrees. This is crucial in a warming world. The clock is running out. We have six years to reduce the extractive and exploitive cost of human activity on the environment. Let’s use this opportunity to make ourselves worthy of the oxygen gifted by the trees. Harm done to one tree is harm done to all trees.
If you haven’t already, please sign the petition. Will you follow this link to support the trees and the creatures they protect? The last day to submit a signature is Monday, August 26, 2024.
Every signature counts. Every tree counts.
I bow to you for your time and your love for Earth and her beings,
in kinship,
Katharine
Author’s Note:
Up next: the interview with Trish O’Kane about conflict resolution within citizen groups.🌱🌎💙
Bumped the petition up by one more.
Signed.