State parks

CA State Park Closure Videos: What’s Your Word?

Regular readers know I’ve given a voice to the plight of California State Parks since June of 2009.  Well, as with everything else in the state budget, things are getting progressively worse and 70 state parks are budgeted to close.  That’s almost a quarter of California State Parks — and it’s happening RIGHT NOW through [...]

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Voices Raised in Advocacy for Our CA State Parks

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People are talking . . . using their voices to fight for keeping California State Parks open. McGrath State Beach in Ventura/Oxnard The volunteer hours put in to save this place are astounding! It seems essential to have one leader for the cause to focus all efforts on key actions — right at the optimum [...]

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Road Trip: Tomol Interpretive Play Area and Carpinteria State Beach

The Tomol Interpretive Play Area and Carpinteria State Beach give us two more reasons to love this little beachy town between Ventura and Santa Barbara.  We’ve been visiting here for years, but it’s fun to get touristy and try to see it from a new perspective.  The new playground opened in June 2011. Directions: From [...]

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Pick a Park — or Risk Losing It

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In June 2011, I approached Christopher Grant Ward of Folk4Parks.org and asked him to provide some video content about the state park closures (see the post about our collaboration).  He’s so great at telling a story and I felt it was important to SEE what’s going on rather than tell.  Over the past two months, [...]

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Someone Doing Something (CA State Parks Matter! Series)

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Welcome to the first post in an ongoing series to get the word out that CA State Parks Matter! Regular readers know I believe parks should not close. Cindy Crawford runs CAOpenSpace.org which is a photo journal website of California’s outdoor spaces. She’s recently taken a very active role in the Save McGrath State Beach [...]

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