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Struck By Lightning: Can America’s National Parks Heal?

Both American democracy and America’s national parks have received catastrophic wounds this past year. Can they heal?

Travel, novel experiences, and nature have all been shown by science to have a beneficial impact on our mental health.

America’s public lands have the popularity President Trump wishes he had. Here are five ways they are more popular than him and his policies.

National park rangers keep the records of our heritage. To lose their knowledge is to forget who we are and where we have been.

When we don’t understand history, we are destined to repeat it. This is a reality we are seeing play out right in front of our eyes.

The Trump Administration wants to steal public lands. They mistreat federal workers who protect those lands with one goal: to make them quit.

The Trump Administration is trying to censor history, but they are fighting against human nature. Science explains why.

America is divided. Let’s create a modern national service program that would unite us in a common goal–protecting our public lands.

Yes you read that correctly. And no it is not a dystopian science fiction plot. It is reality. Here’s what’s happening.

Research has shown that in a mature forest plants don’t compete: they collaborate. We must learn to share like forests do.