{"id":3794,"date":"2023-11-01T09:37:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/2023\/11\/01\/making-the-great-outdoors-accessible-to-minorities\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T21:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:03:20","slug":"making-the-great-outdoors-accessible-to-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/2023\/11\/01\/making-the-great-outdoors-accessible-to-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the great outdoors accessible to minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/50054149_6.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<header class=\"sc-dZuOeG gdUSoC\"><strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/worldlink-making-the-great-outdoors-accessible-to-minorities\/av-50052256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This article is reposted from dw.com<\/a>)<\/strong><span class=\"sc-ezGUZh sc-kMbQoj llLYdd itboQC sc-jKnsrd eLxeLo author no-link\">Eilis O&#8217;Neill<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sc-ezGUZh sc-ilpitK llLYdd dodPrT sc-dkCBEl gfPepI publication\"><time aria-hidden=\"true\">08\/16\/2019<\/time><span class=\"sr-only sc-cwFklu brPDcs\">August 16, 2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-ezGUZh sc-kMbQoj llLYdd itboQC sc-cuGlHX ZoflT teaser-text\">Being among nature is known to be restorative. But while it might seem accessible to everyone, in the US the National Park Service found that \u2014 of the more than 300 million visitors a year to their parks \u2014 only about 25% weren&#8217;t white, despite minorities making up 40% of the population. That&#8217;s what an American woman named Chevon Powell has been working to change. Eilis O&#8217;Neill met up with her.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"sc-kkuBet VHoxC in-line closed\" data-tracking-name=\"sharing-icons-inline\"><span class=\"sc-gMiUki iQvolx\">https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/3O0sS<\/span><\/section>\n<div class=\"sc-hVVLdR iVDReD sc-kKHIly sc-hTJAHb sc-fJoDng sDvJJ dJwEhh exwEZD advertisement\"><span class=\"sc-ezGUZh llLYdd label-top\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/50054149_6.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<header class=\"sc-dZuOeG gdUSoC\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><span><span class=\"sc-ezGUZh sc-kMbQoj llLYdd itboQC sc-jKnsrd eLxeLo author no-link\">Eilis O&#8217;Neill<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sc-ezGUZh sc-ilpitK llLYdd dodPrT sc-dkCBEl gfPepI publication\"><time aria-hidden=\"true\">08\/16\/2019<\/time><span class=\"sr-only sc-cwFklu brPDcs\">August 16, 2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-ezGUZh sc-kMbQoj llLYdd itboQC sc-cuGlHX ZoflT teaser-text\">Being among nature is known to be restorative. But while it might seem accessible to everyone, in the US the National Park Service found that \u2014 of the more than 300 million visitors a year to their parks \u2014 only about 25% weren&#8217;t white, despite minorities making up 40% of the population. That&#8217;s what an American woman named Chevon Powell has been working to change. Eilis O&#8217;Neill met up with her.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"sc-kkuBet VHoxC in-line closed\" data-tracking-name=\"sharing-icons-inline\">\n<p><span class=\"sc-gMiUki iQvolx\">https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/3O0sS<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-hVVLdR iVDReD sc-kKHIly sc-hTJAHb sc-fJoDng sDvJJ dJwEhh exwEZD advertisement\"><span class=\"sc-ezGUZh llLYdd label-top\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}