Be it that frontier nudity among indigenous peoples and explorers was customary according to geography, climate, and culture; Henry David Thoreau skinny-dipped at Walden Pond and Civil War soldiers, cattle-trail cowboys stripped to cross streams, fight and bathe naked; U.S. Presidents enjoyed the pleasure of clothes-free swimming in the Potomac River and the White House swimming pool; Nude recreation is a growing economic and commercial activity that produces jobs; The nude human body has no meaning other than what culture assigns it; Be it resolved, this petition requests federal public lands administered by federal land management agencies abolish or make no administrative rules prohibiting or enforcing non-sexual nude swimming, hiking and camping.
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