Preservation In the News
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No place to build roads
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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9/25/2006 |
| TWO-THIRDS of our national forests are crisscrossed by roads that allow logging, mining and off-road driving. It's not unreasonable that these lands, classified a notch below national parks, are available for a variety of active uses. | |
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Judge overturns Bush policy on new forest roads
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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9/21/2006 |
| In a rebuke of one of the Bush administration's first environmental policies, a federal judge has overturned a rule that would have allowed roads to be built through nearly 60 million acres of national forest land, including 4.4 million acres in California. | |
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Ventura County Supervisors Assail President Bush's Energy Plans
- Los Angeles Times
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9/21/2005 |
| Ventura County supervisors Tuesday waded into the controversy over oil and gas drilling in the county's backcountry and off its coast by opposing the Bush administration's energy-development plans. | |
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Schwarzenegger Asks Bush To Protect Forests
- ABC 7 News (new window)
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7/11/2006 |
| You could call it the war of the woods. The state's super-movie-hero turned environmentalist governor versus Washington regulators of the Federal lands empire. At issue: vast tracts of untouched forest land and open space. | |
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Memories are wrapped up in Topanga State Park
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2/4/2008 |
| I'm not talking about the presidential race but about the governor's plan to close 48 California state parks and beaches in a misguided effort to help balance next year's bloated budget. | |
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Closing parks and monuments would erode California heritage
- The Mercury News (new window)
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1/21/2008 |
| History will no doubt judge us by how we grapple with this year's budget crisis, but must we destroy history in the process? I am extremely concerned with the proposal to close 48 of our world-famous state parks, beaches and historical landmarks. | |
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State parks we'll miss if the budget cuts go through
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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1/17/2008 |
| The public needs more parks in the Bay Area, not fewer. Yet Portola, which provides hiking and camping amid redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of La Honda, is on the closure list. | |
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Park pain: Nature lovers fear losing treasured spots to budget cuts
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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1/12/2008 |
| The trees glistened with dew and a bobcat foraged around on Heart's Desire Beach as Rick Pond walked silently and reverently Friday through the quiet wilderness of Tomales Bay State Park. | |
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Closing state parks won't be easy, carries risks
- The Mercury News (new window)
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1/12/2008 |
| Friday, as the news was sinking in, environmental groups vowed to mobilize tourism officials, school groups, historical preservation advocates and parks lovers to fight the plan in the state Legislature over the coming months. | |
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