Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

“Humans evolved from being gathers and hunters into the mostly city dwellers we are today. Yet there is a need within all of us for opportunities to touch the soil, to see and hear wildlife, to experience the quiet of nature - the space it creates to listen to our own heart and soul. A National Park is our land, the land that belongs to each American Citizen. It is ours to protect, ours to cherish, our to preserve for our children and their children. Every dollar spent to maintain the existing parks; every dollar spent to expand the number of parks is money very well spent. I believe that if people could allocate a percentage of their tax dollars a great deal of it would go to our National Park System. Now in this transition time of the natural climate change cycle, having more land that is not concrete, that has few roads, that is available for native grass, for trees, for wildlife is even more important. We need those trees, that native grass, that feeling of freedom that our National Parks provide to help us as a people remain a strong and healthy society. Much adversity can be overcome when people can spend some time touching the wildness of the land and feeling the depth of our roots in the soil of our Country.”