Monterey County Herald: State Promotes Monterey State Parks Superintendent
Mat Fuzie, the District Superintendent of the Monterey Parks District, has been promoted to Deputy Director of Operations for the California ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Volunteers Spots Remain for Earth Day Event at Aptos' Forest
As part of its 16th Annual Earth Day Restoration and Cleanup, the California State Parks Foundation and Friends of Santa Cruz State ...
Sacramento Bee: Editorial: California Must Vet Various Operating Models
Of course, Hearst Castle belongs in the state park system. ... Apperson Hearst, was the first woman regent at the University of California, and his ...
Los Angeles Times: State Artifacts Collection had Everything But a Home
Almost three decades ago, as heavy rain threatened to breach the levees protecting the Sacramento area, the state parks department urgently dispatched workers to warehouses holding some of California's most important heirlooms ...
Press-Enterprise: REGION: Earth Day Restoration Set at State Parks
The California State Parks Foundation (CSPF) will host24 environmental improvement projects at state parks across California on Saturday, ...
San Mateo Daily Journal: OP-ED: State Parks System Needs Change
California needs to eliminate some of its state parks. That's the conclusion, and a reasonable if controversial one, of a yearlong investigation by the state's Little Hoover Commission. “A great public institution is falling apart,” commission member Virginia Ellis ...
PR Newswire: PG&E Launches First-Ever Month of Service Program for Employee
Anchored by PG&E's annual Earth Day clean-up and restoration projects in partnership with the California State Parks Foundation ...
San Jose Mercury News: California's Historic Artifacts to Get New Home
The state has at least 2 million artifacts and roughly half are in aging warehouses on a flood plain in West Sacramento that lack proper protection from heat and humidity. That was one problem cited last week in a Little Hoover Commission report that criticized the Department of Parks and Recreation for funding and management problems. "It's totally unacceptable," Ross McGuire, a state museum curator, told ...
EurekaTimes-Standard: Help with Patrick's Point Projects
The California State Parks Foundation will host 24 environmental improvement projects at state parks across California on April 13 as part of its 16th annual Earth Day Restoration and Cleanup presented by PG&E. Volunteers are encouraged to ...
Kenwoodpress: Heritage Tree at Jack London Must Come Down
This 50-foot-tall coast live oak towering over Jack London's cottage in Jack London State Park has suffered a significant ...
SonomaValleyPatch.com: Transcendence Theater Will Stay at Jack London till 2020
“It is an honor and a dream come true for our company to be able to call Jack London State Park and Sonoma County our home now and for ...
ABC7.com: Off-duty Park Ranger Hailed as Hero for Rescuing Neighbor
Robert Peek and his wife were fast asleep early Easter morning when the noise from a fire at a ...
Merced Sun-Star: Consider All Models for Park Funding
Should Hearst Castle be in the California state park system? That was the provocative question asked by the Little Hoover Commission in a ...
Lake County News: UC Davis Class Develops Projects Designed to Help Anderson Marsh
“The studio seeks to speculate upon the future of state parks in California,” said Schlickman. “The aim of the project is to develop strategies to ...
Monterey County Herald: Other views: Expand State Parks Partnerships
Mariano Vallejo's Petaluma adobe, California built its modern system of state parks. With campgrounds, museums, Spanish missions and archaeological sites spread across 1.5 million acres of mountains, beaches and deserts, the parks are repositories of the ...
Monterey County Herald: Parks Need Public Support
The state parks department should explore alternative ways of running state park units of statewide significance. A good example is 2,400-acre Crystal Cove, which preserves one of the last remaining natural coastal open spaces in Southern California.
OC Register: Marines' Training Will Close San Mateo Campground
The San Mateo Valley bordering San Clemente will be part of a multi-national Camp Pendleton amphibious landing exercise that will close ...
KQED: Tussle in Tracy: Off Roaders, Nature Lovers Fight
We've heard a lot over the last couple of years about all the money troubles the California state parks have been having—but not all state parks ...
Petaluma Argus Courier: Park pacts paying off
On a sun-dappled afternoon at Jack London State Historic Park this week ... superintendent for the Diablo Vista district of California State Parks.
Fort Bragg Advocate-News: Changes coming to Inglenook Dunes Preserve
Meanwhile, California State Parks wants to spend $750,000 to battle invasive species and remove 2.7 miles of remnants of the haul road ...
Malibu Patch.com: How Craig Sap Helped Heal the Malibu Lagoon
Lagoon Project goes to the State Park staff, our partners and the contractor.
The San Luis Obispo Tribune: Volunteers needed Saturday at Montana de Oro for Various Projects
The event is part of the California State Parks Foundation's Earth Day Restoration and Cleanup. Volunteers are asked to check in at 9 a.m. at ...
San Jose Mercury: Coe Verbica, granddaughter of state park namesake
Today, Henry W. Coe State Park is roughly 90,000 acres -- the second-largest state park in California -- expanded over the past half-century ...
The Eagle Times: Bad reputation dismissed: Off-Highway Vehicles
“The Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) Division of California State Parks is not run by general fund dollars, it is funded by the ...
Sacramento Bee: Donors, partnership keep Malakoff Diggins park open
Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park near Nevada City will remain open to the public this summer, thanks to donated funds and a partnership ...
KSBY San Luis Obispo: State Parks Foundation hosts 16th Annual Earth Day
We're so luck to be in California where we have 280 state parks," said Nancy Shillis, the Manager of the California State Parks Foundation.
CBS Local: Ticks Found In 7 Local Parks Test Positive For Lyme Disease
Malibu Creek, Tapia, Topanga and Will Rogers state parks. ... in California are infected with the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, ...
eTurboNews: Virgin America teams up with California State Parks Foundation
Virgin America, the only California-based airline, is partnering for the sixth consecutive year with the California State Parks Foundation (CSPF) ...
Malibu Times: Climber injured in 60-foot fall at Malibu Creek State Park
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Malibu Search and Rescue Team, Los Angeles County Fire Department and California State Parks personnel ...
Santa Ynez Valley invited to 'Paint Out' Saturday
The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP) manages the 39 acres on behalf of the California State Parks and is in the process ...
CBS Local: Ticks Found In 7 Local Parks Test Positive For Lyme Disease
... and Malibu Creek, Tapia, Topanga and Will Rogers state parks. ... in California are infected with the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, ...
