California’s state park system is the largest and most diverse natural and cultural heritage holdings in the nation. Yet the century-and-a-half-old system has been in perpetual crisis mode for several decades, battered about by funding shortfalls and repeated threats of closures. How California parks — from redwood forests to coastal bluffs and historic monuments — will continue to survive is a story that ardent citizen supporters are striving to determine.
May 14, 2013 by Dhyana Levey
Alden Olmsted has been MIA since last year’s state parks funding scandal, quietly working on a documentary he hopes will change the public’s consciousness.
April 23, 2013 by Dhyana Levey
A long awaited report has sparked a debate on how to best manage the California State Parks system.
February 07, 2013 by Christine Sculati
Ceramicist Marguerite Wildenhain left her legacy at Austin Creek State Recreation Area in Sonoma County. What happens when the interests of art history and state parks coincide?
January 04, 2013 by Alison Hawkes
The California Attorney General’s office releases the results of its investigation into the State Parks Department over its funding fiasco.
December 21, 2012 by Joan Hamilton
Major General Anthony Jackson came out of retirement for one more mission: to turn around California’s state parks department. In a Bay Nature interview, Jackson explains why, “My goal, honest and truly, is not closing any parks.”
October 30, 2012 by Joan Hamilton
The California parks department is figuring out how to disperse $10 million to groups that kept their local state parks from closing this year. But some parks fans wonder how they’ll get out from the shadow of a parks department in scandal.
October 29, 2012 by YerbaQuercus
Henry Coe State Park is huge. I was able to hike around the Northwest section of the park. I went …
September 17, 2012 by Alison Hawkes
What does South Africa and Sonoma County have in common?
Both suffer from debilitating shortages of public funds for parks. …
August 10, 2012 by Christine Sculati
After six months of fundraising, the nonprofit Friends of China Camp raised $250,000, enough money to take over operations of …
Publisher’s Circle hike at Rockville Trails
May 13, 2013 by Judith Katz
