The Skyline Trail connects parks, people, and history.
Thirty-two Miles in the East Bay Hills
March 25, 2019 •
Parks
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.
San Francisco Opens a New Campground at Sunrise Point
March 20, 2019 •
Residents and advocates turn to the challenge of keeping it welcome.
Cleaning Up Toxic Sites Shouldn’t Clear Out the Neighbors
October 24, 2018 •
UC Santa Cruz Sociologist Lindsey Dillon says cleanup shouldn’t mean displacement.
Human-Caused Climate Change Severely Exposes the U.S. National Parks
October 4, 2018 •
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.
Do Parks Push People Out?
October 1, 2018 •
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 Discovery of the Oldest Redwood South of Mendocino Marks a New Era
June 27, 2018 •
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.
The Most Visited State Park System in the Nation Is Remaking Itself and Wants Your Buy-In
March 30, 2018 •
Seven years after the crisis, California State Parks tests out a new model.
Parks Are Our Shared Spaces, and It’s Easy to Take Them for Granted
March 30, 2018 •
So much of the good stuff in life happens in natural places, and it all depends on parks functioning properly in ways we can too easily take for granted.
Are the Bay Area’s Parks Too Crowded?
June 28, 2017 •
Are crowded parks, like traffic or sprawl, another symptom of the Bay Area’s economic boom? Not necessarily.
Sonoma Parks Asks Voters to Approve Sales Tax
October 31, 2016 •
Measure J would provide nearly $10 million over the next decade.