Two weeks ago, before the first autumn storm arrived in Northern California, the yellows and golds of the season lit up the canopies of big-leaf maples and black oaks in the iconic valley of [...]
In 1864 a forward-thinking United States Senator from California by the name of John Conness introduced a bill to protect Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa grove of giant sequoias for all time. [...]
Today is International Women’s Day. March is Women’s History Month. And the year 2014 marks the 150th anniversary of Yosemite National Park and the California State Park system. I am honoring [...]
I started this blog in 2007 as a way to organize my thoughts and learn about promising solutions relating to topics that interest and concern me – social innovation, social justice, public lands [...]
If you are someone who cares about parks and open spaces you should head over to the Bay Area Open Space Council’s blog, where you can stay connected by subscribing to the RSS feed or email [...]