Recently (2025) 1,000 National Park Service workers, gone. 3,400 U.S. Forest Service staff terminated. These are not just jobs lost. They are the hands that have protected our forests, our wildlife, and our sacred lands for generations. Their removal is more than an overreach, it is a betrayal of the responsibility we hold to the earth and to the future.

This is no longer just about politics or policy. It is about something far greater, something primal, something irreplaceable. The forests, rivers, and mountains that have stood for millennia now stand unguarded. If we allow them to fall, they may never return. Not in our lifetime. Not in our children’s lifetime. Not for hundreds, even thousands of years.

I know the weight of this moment. I know the exhaustion, the fear, the overwhelming flood of information from every direction. But this is not the time to look away. This is the time to rise. The future, our future, rests in the choices we make today.

I fear we are stepping into a new Dark Age, one where our rights, our freedoms, and even the very fabric of our way of life are under threat. An age where voices are silenced, where truth is twisted, where even the act of protecting what is sacred could become dangerous.

But history has shown us that even in the darkest times, there are those who refuse to surrender. Those who hold the line. Those who ignite a spark when all the world seems lost in shadow.

So I ask you! stand with me. Stand for the forests, the oceans, the land that cannot speak for itself. Stand for our rights, our freedoms, our future. Stand for the generations that will come after us, for the world they will inherit.

Together, we will not just resist. We will reclaim. We will rebuild. We will evolve. And we will thrive.

This is not just about nature. This is about everything.