Diane Lane and Luke Grimes lend their voices to a brand new public service announcement for the Nationwide Park Basis.
The 2 narrate a video highlighting a number of the 433 nationwide parks positioned throughout the USA, together with Liberty Island, the Grand Canyon, the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. The PSAs come at a time when the Trump administration is in search of to chop $1.2 billion in funding for the Nationwide Park Service. Nevertheless, a bipartisan coalition is working to dam these big cuts.
The Nationwide Park Basis is the official nonprofit associate of the Park Service.
“Our nationwide parks didn’t occur by likelihood. They have been imagined by those that noticed past their instances,” Lane and Grimes say of their separate PSAs. “The pioneers, the daring ones, they stood on the fringe of the canyons, appeared by means of historical past, and understood that these locations want us as a lot as we’d like them. Now it is as much as us. Be part of the Nationwide Park Basis to make sure that every little thing that is ours is right here without end.”
“There’s something unforgettable about coming into our nationwide parks, from the odor of pine timber on a quiet path to the sky opening vast above you,” Lane mentioned in a press release Thursday. “These treasured locations are presents that train us firsthand the worth of our pure world and why its safety is necessary. I’m collaborating with the Nationwide Parks Basis to honor the pioneers who got here earlier than us, in order that future generations can expertise the identical timeless inspiration, appreciation, and communion with our nationwide parks that we get pleasure from in the present day.”
Lane’s PSA will air in AMC theaters all through April. Lane and Grimes’ spots will air on the NFL Community from April by means of July.
“Spending time in our nationwide parks has introduced me life-changing experiences. You study fairly shortly that these particular locations have been cared for by individuals who had the foresight to see that they have been price defending, and that is not one thing we are able to take as a right,” Grimes mentioned. “Being a part of this PSA with the Nationwide Park Basis is one small method to assist elevate consciousness in order that future generations can get pleasure from and study from our nationwide parks, identical to we did.”
Watch the PSA beneath.