Responsible Stewardship
Ethics

Our Ethics

  • Responsible Stewardship Ethics

    *Feel free to and share these ETHICS on your social media account or website.

    *Our mission is to “Educate Through Action” the importance of caring for our public land and public spaces.

    *We can do this TOGETHER

  • Know Your Impact

    •Understand the effects of your impact on the area you visit both physically and digitally

    •Understand ways you can lessen your impact and what you can do to lessen the impact of others

    •Be prepared and know what to expect (weather, rules and regulations)

  • Take Action

    •Once you see something, it becomes your responsibility

    •Do something to help

    •Volunteer with a park or stewardship organizations

    •Physically invest your time

    •See a positive impact immediately from your efforts

    •Pack it out and leave it better

    •Erase the trace others leave behind

    •Do Good

  • Educate Others

    •Educate yourself and others on how we can lessen our impact both digitally and physically.

    •Put that education into action

    •Educate others through your action

    •Lead by example

  • Advocate

    Advocate

    •Raise awareness

    •Use your voice to become part of a solution to a problem

    •Use your social media platform to advocate for public lands, green spaces and parks

    •Connect with governments, businesses and groups to find solutions to issues

  • Donate

    •Give with purpose

    •Donate to organizations or groups that maintain, management or preservation of public lands or green spaces

  • Tag Lightly

    •Consider your digital impact before posting on social media

    •Use broader location geotags and hashtags like states or countries vs specific locations like parks, mountains, lakes.. etc.. Or use NO geotag location at all.

    •Consider the following before you post:

    •Is there adequate:

    • parking

    • restrooms

    • roads

    • enforcement

    • If your answer to any of these is NO, then choose No geotag on that location.

  • Foster Stewardship Together

    *Designed to be inclusive and encourage to create community

    *The core values of Responsible Stewardship are rooted deep into our beliefs that together we all can foster these ethics to make all public lands and public spaces a cleaner and better place that welcomes everyone to enjoy responsibly.

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