On August 31, The California Senate passed a bill to allow nonprofits to run California State Parks as 70 parks face closure between September 2011 and July 2012.
IF YOU have ever visited the Aquatic Park Historic District in San Francisco, chances are you have walked over a defunct rail line that dead-ends at a tunnel underneath the Fort Mason hillside. [...]
Bay Area and national park leaders aim to strengthen connections between parks, public lands and human health and promote "Park Prescriptions."
Health and our parks is also the theme of the Bay [...]
As 2010 comes to an end, many of us are thinking about what the future holds in 2011. Just as I revisit my predictions from last year, one piece of news from the Golden Gate National Parks [...]
“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.” ~ Louisa May Alcott [...]
At the age of three, I could hardly comprehend the vastness of the Grand Canyon. It did not look anything like my home in Michigan. With my family I visited several national parks from the Great [...]
Wallace Stegner called our national parks “America’s Best Idea.” Based on that premise, award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns spent six years creating a documentary series that portrays our national [...]
www.metmuseum.org View of the Yosemite Valley, 1865 Artist: Thomas Hill (1829–1908) Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Harold W. Lovell, 1971 (1971.245) A famous painting from California’s Sierra Nevada, [...]
