Art by Jenny Rieke, friendsofmcrwr.org/education

How do we keep on as our environmental values sit squarely in the crosshairs of the current administration? Each day offers us a chance to get acquainted with and consider what we value about the natural world. Personal empowerment comes with spending time outdoors, taking in a bit of nature’s wonder, finding our voice, and speaking out. 

Lace up your work boots, and head out to that neglected patch of dirt determined to show some love, to cultivate beauty, to care for the land. Intentional acts of stewardship are empowering. Learning by doing is how I’m dealing with such a challenging reality. I wish you peace and a path forward.

— Jenny Rieke, Section Editor

Becoming habitat
“When Terri passed away five years ago, friends came together to make seed balls from her ashes.”
TumbleweirdJenny Rieke
Protecting a monumental place
“Like so many things worth doing, saving the Reach has been a group effort.”
TumbleweirdPauline Schafer

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused — a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration, or love — then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning. 
It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.
— Rachel Carson

THE COALITION: