Well, this was telegraphed for a while, with the Governor hedging on the parks system. But today we get the news that the state parks system is closing down 70 state parks.<\/p>\n
State parks officials today announced the closure of 70 parks because of the state budget deficit, including the governor’s mansion and the Stanford mansion in Sacramento.<\/p>\n
Gov. Jerry Brown’s January budget plan proposed reducing the state parks budget by $22 million. The Legislature in March approved $11 million in cuts to state parks and $10 million in cuts to off highway vehicle parks in the next fiscal year, with $22 million in cuts to state parks in future years.(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The state parks system attempted to cut judiciously, and claim that they will retain 92% of visitors and 94% of revenues. And that’s all well and good, but what does it say about our state that we can’t even afford our state parks? Do we look like a state that will offer the next generation a better future as we are cutting our parks and slashing education funding?<\/p>\n
Over the flip you’ll find the list of state park closures.<\/p>\n
Anderson Marsh SHP<\/p>\n
Annadel SP<\/p>\n
Antelope Valley Indian Museum<\/p>\n
Austin Creek SRA<\/p>\n
Bale Grist Mill SHP<\/p>\n
Benbow Lake SRA<\/p>\n
Benicia Capitol SHP<\/p>\n
Benicia SRA<\/p>\n
Bidwell Mansion SHP<\/p>\n
Bothe-Napa Valley SP<\/p>\n
Brannan Island SRA<\/p>\n
California Mining & Mineral Museum<\/p>\n
Candlestick Point SRA<\/p>\n
Castle Crags SP<\/p>\n
Castle Rock SP<\/p>\n
China Camp SP<\/p>\n
Colusa-Sacramento River SRA<\/p>\n
Del Norte Coast Redwoods SP<\/p>\n
Fort Humboldt SHP<\/p>\n
Fort Tejon SHP<\/p>\n
Garrapata SP<\/p>\n
George J. Hatfield SRA<\/p>\n
Governor’s Mansion SHP<\/p>\n
Gray Whale Cove SB<\/p>\n
Greenwood SB<\/p>\n
Grizzly Creek Redwoods SP<\/p>\n
Hendy Woods SP<\/p>\n
Henry W. Coe SP<\/p>\n
Jack London SHP<\/p>\n
Jug Handle SNR<\/p>\n
Leland Stanford Mansion SHP<\/p>\n
Limekiln SP<\/p>\n
Los Encinos SHP<\/p>\n
Malakoff Diggins SHP<\/p>\n
Manchester SP<\/p>\n
McConnell SRA<\/p>\n
McGrath SB<\/p>\n
Mono Lake Tufa SNR<\/p>\n
Morro Strand SB<\/p>\n
Moss Landing SB<\/p>\n
Olompali SHP<\/p>\n
Palomar Mountain SP<\/p>\n
Petaluma Adobe SHP<\/p>\n
Picacho SRA<\/p>\n
Pio Pico SHP<\/p>\n
Plumas-Eureka SP<\/p>\n
Point Cabrillo Light Station<\/p>\n
Portola Redwoods SP<\/p>\n
Providence Mountains SRA<\/p>\n
Railtown 1897 SHP<\/p>\n
Russian Gulch SP<\/p>\n
Saddleback Butte SP<\/p>\n
Salton Sea SRA<\/p>\n
Samuel P. Taylor SP<\/p>\n
San Pasqual Battlefield SHP<\/p>\n
Santa Cruz Mission SHP<\/p>\n
Santa Susana Pass SHP<\/p>\n
Shasta SHP<\/p>\n
South Yuba River SP<\/p>\n
Standish-Hickey SRA<\/p>\n
Sugarloaf Ridge SP<\/p>\n
Tomales Bay SP<\/p>\n
Tule Elk SNR<\/p>\n
Turlock Lake SRA<\/p>\n
Twin Lakes SB<\/p>\n
Weaverville Joss House SHP<\/p>\n
Westport-Union Landing SB<\/p>\n
William B. Ide Adobe SHP<\/p>\n
Woodson Bridge SRA<\/p>\n
Zmudowski SB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, this was telegraphed for a while, with the Governor hedging on the parks system. But today we get the news that the state parks system is closing down 70 state parks.<\/p>\n
State parks officials today announced the closure of 70 parks because of the state budget deficit, including the governor’s mansion and the Stanford mansion in Sacramento.<\/p>\n
Gov. Jerry Brown’s January budget plan proposed reducing the state parks budget by $22 million. The Legislature in March approved $11 million in cuts to state parks and $10 million in cuts to off highway vehicle parks in the next fiscal year, with $22 million in cuts to state parks in future years.(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The state parks system attempted to cut judiciously, and claim that they will retain 92% of visitors and 94% of revenues. And that’s all well and good, but what does it say about our state that we can’t even afford our state parks? Do we look like a state that will offer the next generation a better future as we are cutting our parks and slashing education funding?<\/p>\n
Over the flip you’ll find the list of state park closures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[2850],"class_list":["post-13487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","tag-2850"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3vx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}