Preserving the Paths to Freedom on the Underground Railroad

for Nature and Wildlife Training for our Next Generations
 

Far from negative, the Underground Railroad (UGRR) is a history of resiliency and the efforts of White and Black people working together for the purpose of humanity.  Today, more is needed to elevate equality and strengthen humanity: peoples’ ability to access the experience of enjoying and protecting nature, wildlife habitats and healthier food sources today, preserves the main outcome and legacy of the Underground Railroad period of the 1700s and 1800s: overcoming and coping with challenges by using open spaces as a path to better living.

 

Join the effort to grow and strengthen these opportunities for all by protecting our natural resource open spaces and training in how to preserve and use these mental-health enhancing environments.  Join our effort to preserve the open spaces of the Underground Railroad trails in southeastern and southwestern Pennsylvania, northern Maryland, northern Delaware, New Jersey, and New York, and to support their use for nature and wildlife training in fishing, birding, hunting, sustainable-regenerative agriculture, and conservation activities.

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The Underground Railroad (UGRR) was a network of people that helped enslaved men, women, and children escape to freedom from the South to the North.  Historically there has been a focus on UGRR properties’ built structures, such as barns or houses called “Stations,” where the “freedom seekers” stayed in hiding on their paths the freedom.

 

The “Railroads” connecting the stations were the paths these freedom seekers and their abolitionist supporters used: Most were streams, creeks, rivers, lakes, high grass fields, and thick wooded segments of land, whose landscapes and features allowed freedom seekers to move undetected, mostly at night, and also to be close to natural food and water sources while hiding during daylight.

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Our goal is to preserve the remaining open spaces of these UGRR trail areas, and in doing so, preserve and protect the “veins of freedom in the land of our country’s Democracy.”  These open spaces provide motivation to appreciate freedom and preserve our Democracy’s critical natural resource lands and biodiverse wildlife habitats that still exist as the historical theater of the moving, the hidden, the battles for individual liberties by diverse allies.

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While the history of the Underground Railroad (UGRR) is difficult, the activities and experiences of the freedom seekers, abolitionists and others that helped on these paths to freedom provide an opportunity to create deeper connections to our waterways, fields, wildlife, and wildlife habitats.  These deeper connections educate, empower, heal, and inspire lifelong appreciation of nature and wildlife, and a context for daily reflection on the freedom to enjoy them.  Join the preservation effort and elevating the historical importance of these natural resources spaces.  Todd@LegacyLandWater.org 

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