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Your help is needed to stop the indefinite closure of 70 California State Parks. As budget battles continue in Sacramento, parks around the state face an uncertain future. In response to recent cuts, the California Department of Parks and Recreation has released a list of state parks that will be closed. Included in the closures are the granite spires of Castle Crags State Park and the iconic sandstone boulders of Castle Rock State Park. The park closures will cut off access to these popular climbing areas, eliminate a funding source for the state, and severely impact local economies.
California State Parks have been threatened with cuts and closures for years. This is ironic given that studies consistently demonstrate the economic benefit of the parks for both the state and park adjacent areas. A 2009 study found that State Park visitors spend $6.9 billion annually traveling to and recreating in State Parks. These dollars multiply through the economy and the California Department of Parks and Recreation has found that they sustain well over 100,000 jobs. The amount saved by closing these parks will cut off access to popular crags, do little to solve California’s budget problems, and comes at a time when the state received a $6.6 billion revenue windfall. See this map for a state park near you that is on the chopping block.
Write your state representative—and copy Ruth Coleman, Director of California State Parks—today and tell them to restore funding for California State Parks!
Please take a moment to use our easy letter writing tool to write your state representatives and tell them to restore funding for California State Parks!
Sincerely,
Your friends at the Access Fund & prAna
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Fantastic sequence of annotated “instructional” clips from Vertical Limit.
Cross-Posted from The Mountain World
The largest environmental film festival in the United States is on tour. You can scroll through 50 trailers on their homepage! October cities include San Francisco, Las Vegas, Asheville, Helena, Sitka, Fall River, Mancshester, Burlington, Cincinnati & Sonora. For a city near you click here.
SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival inspires people and unites communities to heal the earth. SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is a call to action. At Wild & Scenic, filmgoers are transformed into a congregation of committed activists, dedicated to saving our increasingly threatened planet. We show environmental and adventure films that illustrate the Earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet, and the work communities are doing to protect the environment. Through these films, Wild & Scenic both informs people about the state of the world and inspires them to take action.
