Park Excellence Project
In the aftermath of the last few years' budget struggles over California's state parks, we've all been focused on simply keeping the doors to our state parks open – a noble and challenging effort indeed! Yet as we have at least a temporary reprieve on wholesale park closures for now, CSPF is looking toward the future. In this moment, we believe it's critical to begin a public discussion about what excellence in California's state park system should look like. It is not enough to simply keep the doors open to our state parks. As a statewide community, now is the time to create a vision for a park system that projects out our collective expectations, wishes, desires and hopes for our California state parks.
Along with the Save the Redwoods League, CSPF is initiating a new project, the Park Excellence Project, to engage the public in a statewide discussion about what excellence should look like in our state parks and include feedback from key park constituency groups.
In late February we launched an online survey to hear Californians' voices. The web survey closed on March 31st and we received over 6,000 responses! Thank you if you took the time to tell us your thoughts, wishes, hopes and ideas.
We are continuing to collect perspectives, opinions and thoughts from a diverse selection of stakeholder groups for a report that will provide a statewide perspective on the future of California state parks. The report will be published and electronically available in late summer 2010. Stay tuned for more information on this project!
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