Muir Woods ☺️

📍 #MuirWoods #NationalMonument #FindYourPark #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #OutdoorsForAll #NationalParkGeek

Your are on native lands 🌿

Thinking of this beautiful place and looking forward to getting back here! 🐻🐻 🔜

📍 #SleepingBearDunes #NationalLakeShore #FindYourPark #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #JuniorRanger #OutdoorsForAll #OptOutside #HumansOutside365#NationalParkGeek #ParkChat

You are on native lands 🌿

Mesa Arch

📍 #Canyonlands #MesaArch #FindYourPark #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #Utah #OutdoorsForAll #NationalParkGeek

You are on native lands 🏜️

Throwback to Quinn exploring Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore last summer!

What is your favorite National Park Service unit in Michigan?

📍 #PicturedRocks #FindYourPark #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #JuniorRanger #OutdoorsForAll #HumansOutside365 #NationalParkGeek #ParkChat

Banana Slug at Redwoods NP

📍 #Redwoods #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #OutdoorsForAll

You are on native lands 🌿

Protect This Place

📍 Dark Hollow Falls #ShenandoahNationalPark #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #WeAreShenandoah #OutdoorsForAll #JuniorRanger #NationalParkGeek

🌿 Native Lands of the #Shawnee, the #Manahoac, and the #Monacan 🌱

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Sunrise gathering with friends to catch the blossoms 🌸⁣⁣
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📍 #NationalMall #FindYourCherryBlossoms #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #OutdoorsForAll #JuniorRanger #NationalParkGeek @ginaonajetplane.bsky.social @expeditionswithevelyn.com #ParkChat

“Let your motto be resistance! resistance! resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance. What kind of resistance you had better make, you must decide by the circumstances that surround you, and according to the suggestion of expediency.” - Henry Highland Garnet

Before emancipation African American slaves used the floodplain of Congaree as a place of refuge and a place to find liberty. ⁣
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📍 #CongareeNationalPark #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #iBrakeForBrownSigns #OptOutside #OutdoorsForAll #NationalParkGeek #May2021 #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽⁣ #ParkChat

“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”⁣
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Frederick Douglass⁣
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#BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #OutdoorsForAll @rei #OptOutside #JuniorRanger #NationalParkGeek #January2018 #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽⁣
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🌱 Native Land of the #Anacostan and the #Piscataway 🌿

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”⁣
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📍 #CarterGWoodson #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #NationalParkGeek #September2019 #ParkChat #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽

📍 #AfricanMeetingHouse #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #ParkChat #NationalParkGeek #April2019 #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽⁣
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🌱 Native Lands of the #Massachusett, the #Pawtucket, and the #Naumkeag 🌿

“Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible” ⁣
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📍 #MaryMcLeodBethune #BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #OutdoorsForAll #OptOutside #HumansOutside365 #JuniorRanger #NationalParkGeek #ParkChat #December2019 #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽

“Time and conditions change so rapidly that unless we keep on the alert, ever working, watching, improving & learning, we will be left behind in the race of progress.”

Maggie L. Walker
Address to the 34th Annual Session of the Right Worthy Grand Council of VA, Aug. 20, 1901.

#BlueLightingBear 💙⚡️🐻

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”⁣
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― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography⁣

#BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #ParkChat #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽

“There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.” - Harriet Tubman

#BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #ParkChat #August2022 #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽⁣⁣⁣⁣

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., March 8, 1965, Selma, AL ⁣⁣
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#BlueLightningBear 💙⚡️🐻 #IBrakeForBrownSigns #OutdoorsForAll #NationalParkGeek #ParkChat #February2021 #MLK #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽⁣⁣
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🌿 #Piscataway #Nacotchtank