
1. 修复步道
大多数步道都由志愿者维护,而且总是需要人手清理杂物和修复道路。阿巴拉契亚山径保护协会提供志愿者机会,太平洋山脊步道也需要志愿者队伍来维护全年超过2500英里的路段,确保其畅通无阻。有关步道维护项目的信息可以在当地公园或访问国家公园管理局网站获取。
2. 清点动物数量
帮助科学家统计动物数量和保护公园其他资源,是将对户外活动的热爱与科学相结合的简单方法。公园的博物学家和自然保护主义者依靠通常没有科学背景的公民来监测公园的健康状况。冰川国家公园提供统计山羊、鼠兔和蝴蝶的机会。大烟山国家公园需要志愿者监测植物开花情况并收集其他动植物数据。
3. 恢复历史记录
“时光护照”是由美国林务局赞助的一项计划,旨在将志愿者与考古学家和历史学家联系起来,共同参与公共土地项目。志愿者可以协助进行岩画修复、考古发掘和文物保护工作。项目时长从两天到几周不等,有时需要进行野外露营。部分活动也适合儿童参与,鼓励全家一同前往。
4. 将你的行动主义延伸到户外
与去年斯坦丁罗克“水资源保护者”营地类似,今年夏天的抗议营地也需要捐款和组织者。位于爱荷华州威廉斯堡附近的小溪营地(Little Creek Camp)占地14英亩,由爱荷华州原住民组织(Indigenous Iowa)创建。该营地目前专注于反对达科他输油管道项目,并倡导原住民理念以促进可持续发展。在华盛顿州,“脊梁运动”(Backbone Campaign)提供为期一周的夏令营,培训非暴力直接行动,包括“皮划艇行动主义”。在瓦雄岛的“本地化行动!”(Localize This!)营地,参与者与其他公民行动者和运动组织者一起学习如何“在一切我们珍视或视为神圣的事物被掠夺、剥削和消灭之前采取行动”。
5. 放弃这辆车
想抗议在公共土地上进行石油和天然气租赁以及化石燃料基础设施纵横交错地穿过脆弱的生态系统吗?不妨试试无需开车的公园。有些公园位于交通便利的城市地区。例如,圣莫尼卡山国家休闲区占地15.7万英亩,是世界上最大的城市国家公园。从洛杉矶乘坐巴士即可到达公园的部分区域。公共交通也适用于偏远地区的国家公园。从旧金山前往优胜美地国家公园完全可以依靠公共交通:先乘坐巴士或轻轨列车到里士满,然后换乘开往默塞德的Amtrak列车,最后乘坐YARTS(优胜美地地区交通系统)巴士前往优胜美地。
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Thanks for the insightful and practical article here. It is a good reminder that our small efforts to get involved can make a difference for Mother Earth. This weekend I joined a group of citizen scientists at 5 am who are counting the dead or surviving birds that collide with buildings in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Lights Out (City Name here) is an organization that collects bird kills caused when birds run into lit up sky-rise buildings at night during migration. With this data in hand, building owners are approached and asked to turn off their lights during peak migrations to reduce bird deaths as they fly north or south. So far there are many cities across the US who have responded to this effort to save the birds and have turned off their lights during part of the night in spring and fall. Be hopeful and do something, however small it may seem. http://www.audubon.org/cons...
[Hide Full Comment]Nature is who we are! I really am tired of the disassociative story that pitted the human species against the environment. This fear of "life" seems to have made it easy for the Western cultural story to abuse resources, trash ecosystems and generally make a mess of things. Appreciating natural beauty is great, but getting into an understanding of ourselves that leaps the old paradigm would really take us past this "Mad Hatters Tea Party" Facing the whole of who we are as humans in relationship to all living things in a living Uni-verse might just be what we need and want!
This old anonemoose monk will be out on one of my favorite stretches of the PCT with shovel along to refurbish some areas prone to slides, etc. Oh, not to mention take in the silence and solitude. };-) 👍🏻