Join your fellow Nashvillians and The Wilderness Society’s Protect Our Parks team on Saturday, March 18th at 11 a.m. to stand up in support of our public lands!
Our parks and other federal public lands are critically important to us for many reasons: they give us space for recreation with our families, provide clean air and water, serve as wildlife habitats, and are intimately tied to our local economies. In light of recent rhetoric and direct action taken to weaken legislation such as the Antiquities Act that protects some of our nation’s most valuable land, the Protect Our Parks campaign team is hosting a local rally to show Senators Corker and Alexander that their constituents care deeply about our public land. Together, we’ll demonstrate to Corker and Alexander that Tennesseans want them to pledge to vote against all efforts to weaken or repeal this key legislation or sell off public land for development.
Our shared public lands unite us all, and we must work together to preserve these spaces for future generations. Tennessee alone has 56 state parks, our beloved Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Cherokee National Forest, and over 2,814,750 acres of protected land—so this issue hits close to home for our local community. We hope you stand with us to defend #OurWild!