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Potential Budget Agreement Maybe Incoming

July 21, 2009

Rumors are starting to trickle out of Sacramento that a potential budget agreement might be coming to the table before the weekend. The LA Times has a report stating the new budget would let 27,000 prisoners out early, but doesn’t mention anything about the State Parks situation.
Right now, according to an email from the [...]

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CA Budget Showdown ‘09

June 30, 2009

Yup. The annual political teeth-pulling exercise known as the California Budget Approval Process continues to drag out with few concrete milestones reached. It does look, however, like our State Park System may not be the sacrificial lamb it once looked like.
Apparently, 69 of the threatened state parks were given to the state or [...]

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Arnold’s Annual Park Threat

May 28, 2009

While Senator Feinstein was busy securing millions of dollars for California National Forests and Parks (including $2 million for land acquisition in the Santa Monica Mountains – maybe that Backbone Trail will finally get finished!), our Governor was looking at the Big Book of California Budgets and decided he’d take a cue from earlier times [...]

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Californians’ Forty Favorite Hikes

March 4, 2009

The California State Parks Foundation — which just sent me a bunch of mail today — is celebrating its 40th anniversary by posting 40 short podcasts of Californians talking about their favorite hiking trails and experiences in California’s state parks.
First up is Sammy Hagar’s run-in with a rattlesnake at Northern California’s Mount Tamalpais State Park [...]

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Parks Safe For Now

May 14, 2008

In a highly expected and not-at-all surprising announcement this week, Governor Schwarzenegger said he would NOT close 48 State Parks, shortfund schools, or release thousands of inmates from prison to balance the state’s budget.
Instead, he’s planning on borrowing money from investors that he hopes to pay back with future revenues from California’s lottery, which sounds [...]

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Americans Would Rather Stay Inside

February 5, 2008

Lonely Bench in Forest, originally posted by Eszter
A new study finds Americans are getting into the Great Outdoors 25% less than they did in 1987, with the decline continuing at about 1% every year.
The study measured attendance to National Parks, hiking and camping permits, and getting a license to hunt or fish, and say a [...]

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Update on the California Park Closings

January 14, 2008

For those fellow Californians who are tracking Gov. Schwarzenegger’s threatened closing of 48 state parks, the San Jose Mercury News has some updates and analysis of the issue.
The good news: If enacted, the parks likely wouldn’t close until 2009, and groups across the state are preparing counter-assaults on the proposal, pointing out it would only [...]

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48 State Parks to Close?

January 10, 2008

Today, Gov. Schwarzenegger released a list of the 48 State Parks, Recreation Areas, Reserves, and Beaches that he wants to close to help get California’s budget back in the black.
The list reaches across the entire state, and would close many well-trafficked areas — including our very own Will Rogers, Topanga Canyon, and (slightly non-local) San [...]

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