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April is a time of emergence for nature and people. Around my home in the San Francisco Bay Area, the hills are a riot of wildflowers, and the sun stays up long enough that I can usually get out for a golden hour stroll on the trails near my house after shutting down my laptop at the end of the work day.
The promise of spring feels especially vivid this year, as we emerge from the darkest depths of the pandemic. Through each turn of this crisis, Americans have headed outdoors in greater numbers, more often, and for more reasons than ever before. But this increased demand for the outdoors comes at a time when our nation’s park systems are already falling short. Today more than 100 million people in America, including 28 million children, don’t have a park within a 10-minute walk of home. And parks serving communities of color are, on average, half the size of those that serve a majority-white population.
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