Outdoor recreation/spending free time

  • Native Americans - remind them of the land that was stolen from them
  • African Americans - “biophobia” lingering trauma from escaped slavery; forced to live outside

Value of Nature

  • Is destruction of nature a concern if you are worrying about your safety or your stability?
    • Emotional safety

Imperialism

Role of nature in society

  • What do we all need? Where does nature fit into that?
    • Creativity contact with nature love & kinship safety
  • What does this mean in terms of managing land and water resources
  • What does partitioning people into groups have toward this end?

Who should be making these decisions?

  • Engaging historically disadvantaged groups is not enought
  • Need to assimilate them

Who should be teaching this?

Avoid toxic conversations, embrace aspirational ones

Landscape management plans reflect the values of the people who create them