Home to the largest and most diverse State Park System in the country, California State Parks has 1.6 million acres, over 280 miles of coastline, and 625 miles of lake and river frontage. The state parks protect many critical ecosystems that provide global and regional significance far beyond the park boundaries.

Dispersed across large landscapes of both private and public protected lands, state parks support habitat connectivity, provide essential biodiversity hotspots, and contribute to healthy watersheds that benefit communities throughout the state. With increasing impacts due to climate change and urbanization, parks must be stewarded to continue to provide essential refuge for the flora and fauna that are affected.

It is our belief that only by coming together will we keep pace with the pressures from climate change, populations, and other threats to our ecosystems. That’s why, in collaboration with the California State Park’s Natural Resources Division and partners across the state, we seek to accelerate and scale resource stewardship to match the challenges faced by our treasured state parks. The result of this work will deepen partnerships and relationships, increase capacity while creating efficiencies, create critical planning tools, and meet statewide resource stewardship and conservation goals.

Parks California has launched its Resource Stewardship Initiative to ensure California’s unique natural treasures are protected and managed for future generations.