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.
Parks Are Our Shared Spaces, and It’s Easy to Take Them for Granted
March 30, 2018 •
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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.
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.
Berryessa Snow Mountain: Northern California’s New National Monument
May 9, 2016 •
A journey through a nearby landscape that can seem farther off and stranger than the High Sierra.
Without Racial Diversity, Do Enviros Risk Becoming Marginalized?
February 25, 2015 •
UC Berkeley professor Carolyn Finney explains why environmentalists should support biodiversity — and racial diversity.
Why has Mission Peak Become the Thing to Do?
October 16, 2014 •
Mount Tam? That’s yesterday’s high peak. A younger generation of hikers ascends Mission Peak instead.
New Vision Launched for Candlestick Point
October 14, 2014 •
Just two years ago, the state wanted to abandon Candlestick Point. Now it’s investing money in the park’s renewal.
Award-Winning Filmmaker Discusses Upcoming Wilderness Anniversary
July 2, 2014 •
Filmmaker Steve Dunsky usually spends his time behind the camera not in front of it. Now and then, however, he steps into public view. As one of the main creative forces behind the 50th anniversary celebration of the Wilderness Act … Read more
Friends of China Camp Reach Amended Agreement with State
December 4, 2013 •
Friends of China Camp reached an amended agreement in November with the state Department of Park and Recreation to fund China Camp State Park, Olompali State Historic Park and Tomales Bay State Park.
Point Molate Beach Park Opens After Long Closure
October 14, 2013 •
Point Molate Beach Park reopened at sunrise Monday morning after being closed for more than a decade due to budget woes.