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.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The relationship between parks and crime remains the subject of debate. Some scholars say parks and other urban green spaces prevent violence. When vacant … Read more
It’s Saturday afternoon at Lands End in San Francisco. We are tired from all the weeding, but we feel alive and satisfied. A red-tailed hawk hovers above us, as if to signal that it’s time to end the program. We … Read more
Driving south along Skyline Boulevard (Route 35), the forest thick with Douglas fir and a green canopy of madrones casting shadows on the road, I find myself saying out loud, “I can’t believe I’m here.” Less than an hour ago … Read more
East Bay Skyline National Recreation Trail: 32.9 mi, 5,725 ft elevation gain, point-to-point
Residents and advocates turn to the challenge of keeping it welcome.
UC Santa Cruz Sociologist Lindsey Dillon says cleanup shouldn't mean displacement.
Climate change has exposed the United States National Parks to hotter and drier conditions than the country as a whole, a UC Berkeley scientist writes.
Parks improve health and fight climate change. But not all parks affect a community in the same way -- and the question is: "Who's it for?"
The mammoth McApin Tree is not just the venerable elder in its grove. It’s thought the giant redwood holds within its fire-charred rings the surrounding forest’s formative secrets.
Seven years after the crisis, California State Parks tests out a new model.
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