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.
The 2011 state budget crisis hit California's state parks hard. Two years later, the Parks Forward Initiative has been looking to ensure the park system's future and on Oct. 2nd, asked for public input in San Rafael.
California State Parks is grappling with modern funding problems as it strains for cash while its staffing, recreation and maintenance needs grow.
Most rural California state parks have languished in obscurity, but Anderson Marsh has been buoyed by those who value its history.
Santa Cruz state parks supporters are using a bit of marketing and PR to attract new park-goers and raise money.
State parks chief General Anthony Jackson told East Bay park activists that his department needs MBAs and that the whole parks community needs to diversify.
From volunteer vacations to juvenile court's community service program, one study suggests that California could get a lot more enterprising in the use of volunteers in the state parks system.
Many local beach goers in Sonoma County are reacting strongly against a proposal to make them pay to play in the sun.
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.
A long awaited report has sparked a debate on how to best manage the California State Parks system.
Limits on commercial dog walkers in the Presidio has some nature lovers questioning: Should they be allowed at all?
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