“I hope the future of public lands begins with an old understanding: Land and water are not something we manage; they are first what makes life worth living,” writes Jim Enote in a new Ground Shift essay.
Enote observes that “public land debates are too often dominated by a vocabulary of competing interests—recreation, board feet, access, animal-unit months, extraction, lawsuit.” These terms matter, writes Enote, but “something essential disappears when land and water dialogue becomes only a list of competing uses.”
What if our thinking and our public lands and waters started with the idea of reverence, asks Enote? “Before we ask how we think a place should be managed, shouldn’t we first ask how we should behave toward it?”
Join Ground Shift for a virtual discussion with Jim Enote on Friday, November 20 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET on how we can manage our public lands in a way that is grounded in a deep relationship with the land, one rooted in reverence.
Speakers
Jim Enote
Speaker
Jim is a lifelong hunter and farmer, CEO of the Colorado Plateau Foundation, Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Grand Canyon Trust, a Carnegie Foundation Senior Fellow, a National Geographic Society Explorer, and a Zuni tribal member.
Hannah Nordhaus
Moderator
A journalist and bestselling nonfiction author, Hannah writes about history, science and the natural world for National Geographic, Scientific American and many other publications, and serves as co-editor at Ground Shift.