Goodbye 2025: Milestones that Shaped Parks California’s Year
As we say goodbye to 2025, we’re grateful for the partners, tribal nations, community leaders, grantees and supporters who made this year one of meaningful progress for California’s parks.
Confronting Wildfire: California’s Renewed Relationship with Fire
California is confronting wildfire risk head-on. Through a recent executive order, Gov. Gavin Newsom expanded the use of prescribed fire and cultural burns as essential tools for prevention — streamlining permits, boosting funding and partnering with tribal and local fire experts. The directive recognizes something Indigenous communities have known for generations: fire, when used with […]
Southern California Wildfires
Watching the destruction and devastation take hold of our great state in real-time upends our sense of place. Home is more than a building of course, it’s our neighborhood places, it’s our outdoor spaces—like state parks—and it’s the people with whom our lives are built. Seeing those people in peril and those places that were […]