Collective Activity Impacts Ancestral Lands

Seemingly benign activities like hiking, mountain biking, and camping changes how animals use their habitat, raises their stress levels, and can even cause populations to decline. For many wildlife species, public parks and preserves are the best remaining habitat in a landscape highly modified by humans for agriculture, transportation, resource extraction, and housing. Widespread outdoor recreation within parks coupled with extensive development outside their boundaries may make our parks less of a sanctuary than we believe them to be.

Have you considered how collective, rather than just individual, activity impacts Snoqualmie Tribe Ancestral Lands and beyond? Consider checking out this article from Courtney Larson at Colorado State University to learn more about how we can recreate and coexist with wildlife. https://sustainability.colostate.edu/hum.../courtney-larson/