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 camping shortage is brutal, and the latest federal lands chaos doesn’t help. Streamlined permitting could help more Californians go camping—and rural landowners to care for their properties.
Once slated for homes, now open to hikers
Explore sweeping coastal prairies, redwood forests, and oak woodlands at a new national monument near Santa Cruz
The companion to the Crosstown inspires with hidden nature and jaw-dropping views.
BIL and IRA spending on nature in the greater San Francisco Bay Area has topped $1 billion, according to Bay Nature's most recent tally for our Wild Billions project.
New kinds of access to nature are emerging for people with disabilities.
At first it was labeled a wind energy resource area. Then all the wind companies walked away.
Upcoming access to a beach with views and interesting geology
Put on your raincoat and go see some salamanders.
Most cattle will leave, and an ambitious plan aims to restore coastal scrub, grasslands, and chaparral. But the agreement immediately drew fire from community members, who decry the loss of working ranches and farmworkers.
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