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"content": "\u003cp>Point Lobos is preparing to be the first day-use California State Park to roll out a reservation system. Known for its picturesque hiking trails that hug the coastline, Point Lobos has long been called the “crown jewel” of the park system. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But visitors are loving it to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing a full-brimmed khaki hat, Jim Coffin unravels a map of \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=571\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Point Lobos State Natural Reserve\u003c/a>. The reserve is just south of Carmel. On this day, the Carmel local is playing tour guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have some friends from Denver, and we’re showing them the park,” Coffin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They head down a trail that weaves between Monterey Cypress trees, traces coastal bluffs and opens up to Whaler’s Cove. Coffin says it’s a must-see for his all of his out-of-town friends. He also says it’s a must they visit during the week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the weekdays are quite a bit less crowded,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33339_Point-Lobos-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"More than 600,000 people visit Point Lobos State Natural Reserve each year.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700244\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33339_Point-Lobos-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33339_Point-Lobos-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33339_Point-Lobos-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33339_Point-Lobos-3-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33339_Point-Lobos-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33339_Point-Lobos-3-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33339_Point-Lobos-3-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33339_Point-Lobos-3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33339_Point-Lobos-3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33339_Point-Lobos-3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 600,000 people visit Point Lobos State Natural Reserve each year. \u003ccite>(Erika Mahoney/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A busy summer weekend can bring in 6,000 people, far more than what was envisioned decades ago. The state designated Point Lobos as a Natural Reserve in the mid-1930s. That means its unique qualities of land meeting sea garner extra environmental protection for its plants and wildlife. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But too many people threaten the ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Parks’ Sean James oversees public safety and public use for the Monterey District’s state parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more people walking on the trails, the more they’re running into each other, the more they kind of walk off trail to get around each other, which damages the side of the trails and causes future erosion spots,” James says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says too many people can also damage the park’s tide pools and overtax its restroom facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To better manage the crowds, California State Parks is planning to require reservations. It would likely be an online system. A pilot could roll out as early as next summer along with a shuttle to bring visitors into the park. Offsite parking for the shuttle may be located in the field at Rio Road and Highway 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James says the goal of the reservation system is to reduce visitations during peak times, like weekends and holidays, and spread them out to weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it is now, visitors compete for the park’s 150 parking spots. Even on weekdays, those lots can fill up by 10 a.m. So, visitors end up parking outside the reserve along busy Highway 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cars line up to get into Point Lobos State Natural Reserve. Visitors compete for 150 parking spots forcing many to park dangerously along Highway 1.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars line up to get into Point Lobos State Natural Reserve. Visitors compete for 150 parking spots forcing many to park dangerously along Highway 1. \u003ccite>(Erika Mahoney/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen people push strollers across the highway. We’ve seen some older folks trying to get across the highway quickly. And with vehicles coming at usually high rates of speed, it just creates a very unsafe dynamic,” James says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the long-run, requiring reservations will do three things, according to James: protect the reserve, increase public safety and create a better experience for visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want the experience when they get here to be the experience that they’ve envisioned as opposed to the experience that you’d expect if you were going to buy a ticket to Disneyland, right? You’d expect it to be crowded and big long lines. That’s not the experience we want at Point Lobos,” James says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But park visitor Mike Valera is not sold on the idea of a reservation system. During their trip to Monterey, he and his wife decided to come out to Point Lobos on a whim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, coming up here in the spur of the moment type of thing, I wouldn’t be real excited if I drive up and, ‘Sorry we’re closed, you needed to make a reservation,’ ” Valera says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Barnhart, visiting from Colorado with her sister, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been really hard if we drove up and we couldn’t get in. That would have been really disappointing,” Barnhart says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest challenges California State Parks will face is getting the word out about the reservation system. That includes getting it out worldwide since Point Lobos draws international crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33340_Point-Lobos-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A family from Texas hikes through Point Lobos State Natural Reserve. 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The state designated Point Lobos as a Natural Reserve in the mid-1930s. That means its unique qualities of land meeting sea garner extra environmental protection for its plants and wildlife. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But too many people threaten the ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Parks’ Sean James oversees public safety and public use for the Monterey District’s state parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more people walking on the trails, the more they’re running into each other, the more they kind of walk off trail to get around each other, which damages the side of the trails and causes future erosion spots,” James says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says too many people can also damage the park’s tide pools and overtax its restroom facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To better manage the crowds, California State Parks is planning to require reservations. It would likely be an online system. A pilot could roll out as early as next summer along with a shuttle to bring visitors into the park. Offsite parking for the shuttle may be located in the field at Rio Road and Highway 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James says the goal of the reservation system is to reduce visitations during peak times, like weekends and holidays, and spread them out to weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it is now, visitors compete for the park’s 150 parking spots. Even on weekdays, those lots can fill up by 10 a.m. So, visitors end up parking outside the reserve along busy Highway 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cars line up to get into Point Lobos State Natural Reserve. Visitors compete for 150 parking spots forcing many to park dangerously along Highway 1.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33342_Point-Lobos-6-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars line up to get into Point Lobos State Natural Reserve. Visitors compete for 150 parking spots forcing many to park dangerously along Highway 1. \u003ccite>(Erika Mahoney/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen people push strollers across the highway. We’ve seen some older folks trying to get across the highway quickly. And with vehicles coming at usually high rates of speed, it just creates a very unsafe dynamic,” James says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the long-run, requiring reservations will do three things, according to James: protect the reserve, increase public safety and create a better experience for visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want the experience when they get here to be the experience that they’ve envisioned as opposed to the experience that you’d expect if you were going to buy a ticket to Disneyland, right? You’d expect it to be crowded and big long lines. That’s not the experience we want at Point Lobos,” James says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But park visitor Mike Valera is not sold on the idea of a reservation system. During their trip to Monterey, he and his wife decided to come out to Point Lobos on a whim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, coming up here in the spur of the moment type of thing, I wouldn’t be real excited if I drive up and, ‘Sorry we’re closed, you needed to make a reservation,’ ” Valera says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Barnhart, visiting from Colorado with her sister, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been really hard if we drove up and we couldn’t get in. That would have been really disappointing,” Barnhart says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest challenges California State Parks will face is getting the word out about the reservation system. That includes getting it out worldwide since Point Lobos draws international crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33340_Point-Lobos-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A family from Texas hikes through Point Lobos State Natural Reserve. One of the park's main jobs will be publicizing the new reservation rule as the park attracts visitors from around the world.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33340_Point-Lobos-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33340_Point-Lobos-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33340_Point-Lobos-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33340_Point-Lobos-4-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33340_Point-Lobos-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33340_Point-Lobos-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33340_Point-Lobos-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33340_Point-Lobos-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33340_Point-Lobos-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33340_Point-Lobos-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family from Texas hikes through Point Lobos State Natural Reserve. One of the park’s main jobs will be publicizing the new reservation rule as the park attracts visitors from around the world. \u003ccite>(Erika Mahoney/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With proper publicity, park visitors Yvonne Bonifer and Dirk Nienhaus say they’re in favor of it. The friends have visited Point Lobos four times now, all the way from Germany. On this trip, they’ve come on a calm weekday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It even should more protect the place as such because, honestly, if it’s getting too crowded and you cannot take beautiful pictures, then it’s not so much fun as it currently is,” Nienhaus says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Point Lobos regular and Marina resident Jo Heeb says while the reservation system will make it harder for locals to spontaneously show up, she understands the need for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have so many people trampling over the same space, it’s only going to break down the ecosystem. It’s going to break down the area,” Heeb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Park’s plan to create a reservation system follows in the footsteps of the National Park Service. In January, Muir Woods National Monument began requiring visitors to \u003ca href=\"https://gomuirwoods.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reserve a parking spot or shuttle seat\u003c/a>. Yosemite National Park has explored similar options, and Arches National Park is considering a reservation system too.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s embattled state parks system is preparing to take a good, long look in the mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday morning, State Parks Director Anthony Jackson and Natural Resources Secretary John Laird announced \u003ca href=\"http://www.parksforward.com/\">the formation of a special commission\u003c/a>that will spend the next year and a half analyzing the system’s problems and recommending long-term solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission will be funded by five major foundations. (\u003ca href=\"http://parksforward.com/funder-statement\">Click here for more details\u003c/a> on who’s funding the project.) Only one member has been named so far — investor Lance Conn — but Jackson said the dozen-member panel will be a diverse group. “Some of them nationally known, some of them prominent from within the state,” said Jackson. “Some academics, some from the business community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a turnaround effort,” said Conn, who predicted the commission will come up with “bold and innovative changes” to create a stable funding and operation system for California’s parks, after first “establish[ing] and then confront the brutal facts.” \u003c!--more-->Those brutal facts include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>An uproar when $54 million was discovered sitting on the books undeclared. Audits later determined $34 million of that was unspent money for off-highway vehicle projects. That still left $20 million for which the explanation appears to be that parks department officials feared they would get in trouble and the money would be taken from them to plug state budget holes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Decades’ worth of budget cuts – Laird pegged them at between 60-70 percent over the last two decades – \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/specialcoverage/ontherocks/\">that ultimately led to the threatened closure of 70 parks in 2011. \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Those parks ultimately remained open after a 2012 law \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/26966/files/donor_agreement_ab1478_match_guide_final.pdf\">empowered the Parks Department to seek out private funding partners\u003c/a>, which have contributed nearly $4 million to more than 30 sites. (The same law required the department to create the commission announced this morning.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said the commission will look at expanding that model. “And that is partnering not just with park associations and foundations, but we have some good examples of partnering with national parks, regional parks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This won’t be the first commission to look at California’s parks. The Little Hoover Commission examined the system earlier this year. \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/26/local/la-me-state-parks-20130326\">As the L.A. Times reported, its findings weren’t pretty:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A report from the nonpartisan Little Hoover Commission released Monday said years of heedless growth had saddled the state with more land than it is equipped to manage, and the lumbering Department of Parks and Recreation has allowed the system to slip into obsolescence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some park entrances, credit cards are useless because fees must be paid by slipping cash into hollow metal posts. Budget cuts have stalled more than $1 billion in roadwork, bathroom repairs and other badly needed maintenance. Hundreds of thousands of artifacts are locked away in outdated warehouses rather than on display in museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations that have tried to work with the state have repeatedly been dealt with clumsily, exasperating groups that could prove key to parks’ survival, the report said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93745\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 158px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction/img_2345/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93745\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-93745 \" title=\"Pint-Sized Biker\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/IMG_2345-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family fun – or environmental threat on wheels? Jun Bato’s 5-year-old son is one of many children you’ll spot on the trails of Carnegie SVRA. (KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We’ve heard a lot over the last couple of years about all the money troubles the California state parks have been having—but not all state parks are starved for cash. Eight “off-highway vehicle parks” get a steady stream of gas-tax funds guaranteed by state law. These parks are a different breed from the rest. They’re even run by a separate division within the Department of Parks and Recreation. And in many ways, off-roaders struggle with Californians who have a very different idea of what a park should be. Take, for example, the story of \u003ca href=\"http://ohv.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1172\">Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About an hour’s drive east of San Francisco, Carnegie draws motorcyclists from all over the western United States to tear up and down its hills. The challenge is pretty obvious—climb about 500 feet in a matter of seconds without losing control of your vehicle. It looks exhilarating—and terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Outlet for Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamid Majidy of Piedmont loves to come here. He rides a Honda CR 250 dirt bike, and he notes many of the biggest names in the sport have come to Carnegie, too, including California-grown greats like Modesto’s Kenny Roberts and Berkeley’s Brad Lackey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many parents who frequent Carnegie, Majidy says the promise of a weekend on dirt bikes is an excellent way to encourage kids (especially boys) to behave at home. “Even though we don’t come out here very often,” Majidy says, “it just motivates them to have something to look forward to other than, you know, playing video games and watching TV all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the Diablo Range park is most accessible to motorcycles, other four-wheelers such as sand rails, razors and military jeeps also ply Carnegie’s territory. The state purchased this stretch of 1,300 acres from a private operator in 1979. In the years since, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">Department of Parks and Recreation\u003c/a> bought another 3,400 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clash Over Environmental Reports\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that property is still off-limits to off-roaders because the state didn’t do an environmental impact report first. Pre-purchase EIRs weren’t standard practice in the past. But then, most state parks involve a few hiking trails and a parking lot. Local environmentalists argue the need for an EIR at Carnegie should have been obvious from the get-go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those environmentalists is Celeste Garamendi, the sister of \u003ca href=\"http://garamendi.house.gov/\">Rep. John Garamendi.\u003c/a> (She’s quick to say he’s not involved in this conflict).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Off-road riding damages the land, she says: “It erodes the hillsides. It destroys vegetation. It pollutes the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi married into a local ranching family with big holdings near both Carnegie tracts. She said state parks officials should lay off their expansion plans—and do a better job of caring for what properties it runs now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where some might see an endless range of undifferentiated rolling hills, Garamendi sees a delicate ecosystem deserving more respect than it gets. “When I first came here [in 1990], I certainly didn’t have an appreciation for what this is,” she says. “Over the years, I’ve come to understand how very special this is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“High ridge tops, cascading canyons, a wonderful riparian Corral Hollow creek, variation in vegetation from savannah grasslands to blue oak woodlands, chaparral, sage, pine forests: all of this is contained within Tesla Park,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/\">Tesla Park\u003c/a>? There is no Tesla Park, yet. But Garamendi wants to establish one on the very land the state bought to expand the Carnegie SVRA. (Why name it Tesla, you ask? The area is the former site of \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TeslaHistory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an industrial town named Tesla\u003c/a>, once the site of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslacoalmines.org/Tesla.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most productive coal mine in California\u003c/a>. There’s no connection between the proposed park and with Fremont’s Tesla Motors–except for the fact the Teslas are named for the Serbian-American inventor and alternating-current pioneer \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikola Tesla\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marilyn Russell, an avid horse rider who taught biology at Livermore High for 33 years, would also like to see a park here. Russell says the hills are home to all kinds of critters, from spadefoot toads and whipsnakes to red-tailed hawks and golden eagles. She adds, with a wink in her eye, “It would be wonderful to connect trails from Yosemite to Mount Diablo and beyond. You know, that’s a vision I have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just a question of love for the flora and fauna. Backers of Tesla Park also argue more attention should be paid to the region’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TeslaHistory.pdf\">history\u003c/a>. In Carnegie, a now-defunct mining site has been cordoned off to protect it from bikers. (The area has also been left free of signage to protect it from archeological poachers, a common problem in California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 13 years, the \u003ca href=\"http://ohv.parks.ca.gov/\">Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division\u003c/a> of State Parks has launched and abandoned two EIRs for the Carnegie expansion. The division is working now on a third one, which is the first one to consider the old property as well as the new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defining ‘sustainable’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to counter accusations that Carnegie isn’t being run properly, park Superintendent Randy Caldera does a lot of monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every bare piece of dirt in this park has been GPS’ed, and it’s evaluated annually for soil loss. Pictures are taken,” Caldera explains. “These all are required now to meet our resource code. You can have a denuded area, or an area that doesn’t have vegetation. As long as we’re monitoring it and identifying that, it’s sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, just to be clear, “sustainable” doesn’t mean sustainable for flora and fauna, so much as it means the soil isn’t eroding down the hillside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/state-plan-to-expand-carnegie-state-park-struggles-to-gain-traction/carnegiegrooves/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93929\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93929\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/CarnegieGrooves-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"What the grooves look like. (Credit: TeslaPark.org)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What the grooves look like. (Credit: TeslaPark.org)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Caldera talks, there’s no escaping the visual of deep grooves worn into the hillsides behind him. But the hills outside the park also show evidence of human interference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana Mead of Concord comes here on a regular basis with her family, including her 18-year-old son, Logan, who’s become a top competitor on the hill-climb circuit. She’s also an organizer with CORVA, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.corva.org/\">California Off Road Vehicle Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Impacts on the Landscape\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that ranchers have remade the local landscape. With the naked eye, you can see how nibbling grazers in the area have worn ridges of their own into the hills, (albeit soft horizontal ones that grass grows over quickly). Those small clutches of oak trees surrounded by green in winter, yellow in summer? That’s a new vista, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wide open vistas are not indigenous to this area,” Mead says. “They’re that way because of the cattle. It’s beautiful, but let’s understand: There’s all kinds of human activity that impacts our environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Yes, she acknowledges, motorbike trails tear up the hillsides and some of her fellow Californians might find that “abhorrent. I understand that when you see that trail, that that viscerally bothers you in the pit of your stomach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she pointed out that ranching carries a cost, too. “I find what cattle do to our water systems to be abhorrent,” she said. “But I’m not a vegetarian, so I kind of understand we need to manage this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mead argues off-roaders are trying to operate inside the boundary lines set by the law, the \u003ca href=\"http://ca.regstoday.com/law/prc/ca.regstoday.com/laws/prc/calaw-prc_DIVISION5_CHAPTER1p25.aspx\">Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Act of 1988\u003c/a>. Garamendi counters the law needs to be reassessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, there will be a series of public meetings over Carnegie’s environmental impact report and \u003ca href=\"http://carnegiegeneralplan.com/\">general plan\u003c/a>. The process is expected to wrap up by the end of the year—but that just means the state parks’ Off-Highway Division will then be free to start the approval process with the general parks leadership, the state Finance Department and state lawmakers. That could take another three to four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hear the story as it sounded on The California Report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Funds for coverage of California state parks are provided by the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In the years since, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">Department of Parks and Recreation\u003c/a> bought another 3,400 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clash Over Environmental Reports\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that property is still off-limits to off-roaders because the state didn’t do an environmental impact report first. Pre-purchase EIRs weren’t standard practice in the past. But then, most state parks involve a few hiking trails and a parking lot. Local environmentalists argue the need for an EIR at Carnegie should have been obvious from the get-go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those environmentalists is Celeste Garamendi, the sister of \u003ca href=\"http://garamendi.house.gov/\">Rep. John Garamendi.\u003c/a> (She’s quick to say he’s not involved in this conflict).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Off-road riding damages the land, she says: “It erodes the hillsides. It destroys vegetation. It pollutes the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi married into a local ranching family with big holdings near both Carnegie tracts. She said state parks officials should lay off their expansion plans—and do a better job of caring for what properties it runs now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where some might see an endless range of undifferentiated rolling hills, Garamendi sees a delicate ecosystem deserving more respect than it gets. “When I first came here [in 1990], I certainly didn’t have an appreciation for what this is,” she says. “Over the years, I’ve come to understand how very special this is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“High ridge tops, cascading canyons, a wonderful riparian Corral Hollow creek, variation in vegetation from savannah grasslands to blue oak woodlands, chaparral, sage, pine forests: all of this is contained within Tesla Park,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/\">Tesla Park\u003c/a>? There is no Tesla Park, yet. But Garamendi wants to establish one on the very land the state bought to expand the Carnegie SVRA. (Why name it Tesla, you ask? The area is the former site of \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TeslaHistory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an industrial town named Tesla\u003c/a>, once the site of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslacoalmines.org/Tesla.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most productive coal mine in California\u003c/a>. There’s no connection between the proposed park and with Fremont’s Tesla Motors–except for the fact the Teslas are named for the Serbian-American inventor and alternating-current pioneer \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikola Tesla\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marilyn Russell, an avid horse rider who taught biology at Livermore High for 33 years, would also like to see a park here. Russell says the hills are home to all kinds of critters, from spadefoot toads and whipsnakes to red-tailed hawks and golden eagles. She adds, with a wink in her eye, “It would be wonderful to connect trails from Yosemite to Mount Diablo and beyond. You know, that’s a vision I have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just a question of love for the flora and fauna. Backers of Tesla Park also argue more attention should be paid to the region’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TeslaHistory.pdf\">history\u003c/a>. In Carnegie, a now-defunct mining site has been cordoned off to protect it from bikers. (The area has also been left free of signage to protect it from archeological poachers, a common problem in California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 13 years, the \u003ca href=\"http://ohv.parks.ca.gov/\">Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division\u003c/a> of State Parks has launched and abandoned two EIRs for the Carnegie expansion. The division is working now on a third one, which is the first one to consider the old property as well as the new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defining ‘sustainable’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to counter accusations that Carnegie isn’t being run properly, park Superintendent Randy Caldera does a lot of monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every bare piece of dirt in this park has been GPS’ed, and it’s evaluated annually for soil loss. Pictures are taken,” Caldera explains. “These all are required now to meet our resource code. You can have a denuded area, or an area that doesn’t have vegetation. 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"content": "\u003cp>Released today: The Attorney General’s “Report of Investigation into Discrepancies in Financial Reports Submitted by the California Department of Parks and Recreation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit of the California state parks department sheds light on why senior officials covered up an unreported funding surplus of as much as $29 million for a decade or more. The report says department managers hid the surplus first because they were concerned about future budget cuts, then out of fear of \"embarrassment\" if the cover-up were to be disclosed. The report's executive summary concludes the extra money seems \"to have represented an essentially useless reserve that could not be spent by the Parks Department as there was no legislative appropriation to do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former State Parks Director Ruth Coleman resigned when the surplus was reported last July. She denied any knowledge of the hidden funds, and the audit found that reports that she was aware of the extra funds are \"unreliable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says charges that the department also hid more than $34 million in the parks Off-Highway Vehicle fund were unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://resources.ca.gov/attorney_generals_investigation_into_discrepancies_in_financial_reporting_by_california_state_parks/\">\u003cstrong>Entire report online\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million/#interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Interview w/ former State Parks Chief Ruth Coleman\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (Jul 2012, News Fix)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revelation of the surplus engendered outrage\u003c/a> this summer in light of the scheduled closure of dozens of 70 state parks because of what was thought to be a $22 million budget gap over two fiscal years. But, as The California Report's Rachael Myrow wrote in July, \"Most of those closures did not happen because of near-heroic fundraising from non-profits across the state. (T)he money, [however], could also have prevented cutbacks in hours, staffing and services systemwide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's report says the disparity between reported funds and actual funds \"grew unintentionally during a challenging financial budgeting and tracking period from 1995 to 2003.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it goes on to implicate a number of department personnel in a deliberate cover-up:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is clear, however, that by no later than 2003, and perhaps as early as 1999, the failure to accurately report all [State Parks Recreation Fund] monies to the [Dept of Finance] became conscious and deliberate. The facts show that former budget officer Becky Brown noticed the growing disparity as early as 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By late 2002, when the discrepancy in SPRF balance reports had reached $26.8 million, the budget and accounting officers and their supervisor, Tom Domich, then-manager of fiscal\u003cbr>\nservices, were all aware of the discrepancy. Thereafter, from 2002 to 2012, numerous individuals failed to take appropriate action to ensure the monies were revealed to the DOF. The primary reason consistently given for not doing so was fear that the Department would see its already-reduced general funding cut further if the extra monies in the SPRF were revealed. The embarrassment expected to result from revealing the funds was another motivating factor...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout this period of intentional non-disclosure, some Parks employees consistently requested, without success, that their superiors address the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Aaron Robertson arrived as head of the Department’s administrative services division and recognized his duty to report the matter up the chain of command, both within and outside the Department. Until then, no one had been willing to report the matter beyond their supervisors. Instead, people have consistently followed the directions of those above them that the fund balance disparity would not be disclosed to the DOF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conclusively identifying everyone who knew of the funds and gave orders that they not be reported to the DOF is difficult. 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Parks director Ruth Coleman resigned as a result of the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1589, by Assemblymember Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), requires that the Department of Parks & Recreation develop an “action plan” for generating revenue, as well as for collecting unpaid user fees at state parks. A lot of people are anticipating, to offer one example, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmv.ca.gov/online/elp/elp.htm\">special-interest license plate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1589 also allows taxpayers to redirect portions of their tax refunds to the California State Parks Protection Fund in exchange for an annual state park day-use access pass. \u003c!--more-->AB 1478, by Bob Bloomenfield (D-Woodland Hills) appropriates $10 million from the fund for park maintenance projects and $10 million as matching funds for private grants for parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1478 is the more interesting bill for Bob Patrie of the Coe Park Preservation Fund. You may recall that organization wrangled a whopping $1 million of private money to keep their beloved local park open another three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>“AB1478 directly impacts our relationship with the DPR,” Patrie writes. He notes that half of the unreported $20.5 million in the State Parks and Recreation Fund will go towards the $1 billion deferred maintenance backlog, “rather than being entirely spent on keeping the threatened 70 parks open – a bad idea. The smell of money in the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late July, the Fund and its sister non-profit, the \u003ca href=\"http://coepark.net/pineridgeassociation/support-coe/pra\">Pine Ridge Association\u003c/a>, issued a \u003ca href=\"http://coepark.net/pineridgeassociation/documents/Summer_2012.pdf\">press release\u003c/a> that more-or-less demanded the state not use the “found” money for purposes other than state parks…a temptation in these budget-strapped times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no doubt, that many of these funds were collected by the DPR from California citizens visiting and enjoying our beautiful state parks,” writes Daniel McCranie, CPPF treasurer and board member (and also the guy who wrote the biggest check to keep Coe open.) “It is both logical and morally correct that these discovered funds be allocated to the department from which they were collected – the California State Parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_75071\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/1-IMG_1585.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-75071\" title=\"1-IMG_1585\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/1-IMG_1585-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It takes a team to keep a state park like Henry Coe open. Ranger Cameron Bowers and non-profit advocate Bob Patrie (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>AB 1478 also prohibits the Department of Parks and Recreation from closing or even proposing the closure of a state park until mid-2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For over a year, we were told that there was no alternative [to park closures],” Blumenfield writes KQED. “We were told park closures were a necessary sacrifice as the state faces tough budget challenges. Californians responded by rallying to raise funds to keep them open. This inspiring accomplishment cannot be soiled by the isolated acts of rogue bureaucrats who concealed over $50 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About that figure…could be more, could be less. Over the weekend, the Sacramento Bee’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/matt_weiser\">Matthew Weiser\u003c/a> wrote that the figure most everybody is bandying about ($54 million) … \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/02/4780548/numbers-on-hidden-funds-in-california.html\">may not be so correct\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $20 million was in the State Parks and Recreation Fund, as previously mentioned; the rest in “a dedicated pot of money known as the Off Highway Vehicle Trust Fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, Finance Department chief deputy director Michael Cohen says his agency is no longer sure how much money was hidden in the OHV fund, and that answer will have to wait on three separate investigations by the attorney general, the state auditor and the Legislature. Those could take the rest of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OHV fund serves the state’s eight parks dedicated to off-roaders, among other things. The OHV fund has routinely maintained a large balance. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ruth Coleman resigned this morning and her second in command has been fired. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/20/4645141/state-parks-director-resigns.html#storylink=cpy\">\u003cstrong>Sacramento Bee\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> first broke the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inciting incident? The department has been sitting on nearly $54 million in surplus money for as long as 12 years. A rainy day fund, perhaps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moves come in the wake of a scandal, revealed by The Bee on Sunday, in which a deputy director at \u003ca href=\"http://topics.sacbee.com/State+Parks/\" rel=\"nofollow\">State Parks\u003c/a> carried out a secret vacation buyout program for employees at headquarters last year. That buyout cost the state more than $271,000. The Bee submitted a Public Records Act request, started digging, and learned more gob smacking stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://topics.sacbee.com/John+Laird/\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Laird,\u003c/a> secretary of the state Natural Resources Agency, which oversees \u003ca href=\"http://topics.sacbee.com/State+Parks/\" rel=\"nofollow\">State Parks,\u003c/a> told The Bee that investigations have been launched by both the Attorney General's office and the Department of Finance to figure out how -- and why -- the \u003ca href=\"http://topics.sacbee.com/Department+of+Parks+and+Recreation/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Department of Parks and Recreation\u003c/a> squirreled away so much money for so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million/#updates\">\u003cstrong>Updates on the story\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"//ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million/#interview\">\u003cstrong>Interview with Ruth Coleman\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Ruth has stepped up and taken personal responsibility,\" Laird said of Coleman, who is the longest-serving director in the 150-year history of the department. \"It's an incredibly troubling discovery.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surplus money consists of $20.3 million in the Parks and Recreation Fund, and $33.5 million in the Off Highway Vehicle Fund, which are the two primary operating funds at the agency. This money was not reported to either Finance or the State Controller's Office, in contrast to normal budgeting procedures.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind that 70 state parks were set to close for the want of $22 million dollars over two fiscal years\u003ca>. A reminder: in late June, just ahead of the July 1st \"deadline,\" the Department announced that 65 parks either have a deal, or one in the works, to avoid closure.\u003c/a> The Governor also signed legislation that provides some money to give a little extra time to hash out those couple dozen deals still in the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Most of those closures did not happen because of near-heroic fundraising from non-profits across the state, but the money could also have prevented cutbacks in hours, staffing and services system wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview Friday morning with The Bee, Laird said the discovered funds are \"one-time\" money and it will be up to the Legislature to decide how to use it. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"updates\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12 p.m.\u003c/strong>: \u003cem>Paul Rogers covering the story\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/PaulRogersSJMN/status/226389317961019395\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Brown appoints interim director, launches investigation\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Natural Resources Agency says Gov. Brown has appointed Undersecretary Janelle Beland as acting interim director of Parks. Also from the agency:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At the request of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., the state Attorney General’s Office is investigating the circumstances surrounding significant budgetary irregularities at the California Department of Parks and Recreation dating back to at least 2000. Governor Brown has also directed the state Department of Finance to conduct a comprehensive audit of Parks’ fiscal controls and the California Natural Resources Agency Secretary John Laird to conduct a sweeping review of Parks’ management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary investigation into Parks’ finances has revealed that for at least 12 years the department underreported tens of millions of dollars to the state Department of Finance. As a result, the Department of Finance was not aware that the State Parks and Recreation Fund and the Off Highway Vehicle Fund held $20,378,000 and $33,492,000 respectively above their official, most recently reported balances. The underreporting occurred over the course of two prior gubernatorial administrations.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:45 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Local park fundraisers speak out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Patrie, who helped line up more than $1 millon in funding to \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201203120850/a\">keep Henry W. Coe State Park in Morgan Hill\u003c/a> open, had this to say via email:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These scandals within DPR won't make it any easier for us to raise additional donations to fund an endowment. I'm very disappointed with DPR leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/13/whatever-it-takes-city-of-benicia-pays-calif-to-keep-state-park-open/\">Bob Berman, VP of the Benicia State Parks Association\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, needless to say I am both shocked and disappointed. If it turns out that this undercounting is true and deliberate, this likely will damage support and sympathy for state parks from members of the State Legislature and the public. This is especially true since so many of the 70 targeted State Parks have not closed because so many nonprofits (such as the Benicia State Parks Association) and their volunteers have stepped forward to keep the parks open.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:56 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Jared Huffman comments\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a06/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Rafael State Assemblyman Jared Huffman\u003c/a> tells KQED's Scott Shafer, the situation is “extremely troubling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very distressing. I think like everyone, when you hear this news, it just sort of makes you sick frankly, cause this is not way to manage the public’s money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said he applauds Gov. Brown’s leadership in immediately involving the Attorney General’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 1:50 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Coleman blames deputy\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_21121187/california-parks-director-resigns-amid-scandal\">Ruth Coleman spoke to the Mercury News' Paul Rogers\u003c/a>, and she's blaming the scandal on her former deputy, Manuel Lopez:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On Sunday, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/15/4631669/unauthorized-vacation-buyouts.html\">Sacramento Bee reported\u003c/a> that former deputy parks director Manuel Lopez had approved $271,000 in vacation buy backs for parks staffers without authorization. Coleman demoted Lopez in October and in May, he resigned under pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Coleman said that the $54 million in unreported money had been concealed by Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was part of his job,\" she said. \"He did not elevate it to my attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she learned of the problem when Lopez's successor, Aaron Robertson, uncovered it as part of an investigation. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_21121187/california-parks-director-resigns-amid-scandal\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"interview\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:31 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Interview with Coleman\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Report's Scott Shafer talked to Ruth Coleman this afternoon. Coleman said again she didn’t know about the extra balance of funds. “Once I found out, we took action and we’re cleaning it up, and the administration is going to continue doing that, and I respect their ability to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she takes responsibility for the actions of her subordinates, and that she offered her resignation to the governor last night. “I just think that right now, the right [thing] is for me to move on, and take this one for the team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coleman said the money isn’t going to solve the park’s ongoing financial issues, but it will help. “It’s important to remember that these funds are still there. They have not been taken from the taxpayers. They’re safe. They can be appropriated subject to the legislature. They should have been day-lighted to finance, but now that they are I think that it’s important to move on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what her former underling, Lopez, who she says is responsible for concealing the funds, may have been thinking, Coleman said, \"It's so hard to get inside somebody else's head.\" She said that she had heard from another person that Lopez' argument for hiding the funds was that they would have been appropriated for the state general fund anyway, but that the comment was only hearsay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3:18 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Interview with Sierra Club California Director Kathryn Phillips\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Governor Jerry Brown, she says, \"has been signaling his disinterest with an interim person in the top post\" of the Parks Department, referring to the fact Coleman is a holdover from the Schwarzenegger Administration. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Brown appoints interim director, launches investigation\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Natural Resources Agency says Gov. Brown has appointed Undersecretary Janelle Beland as acting interim director of Parks. Also from the agency:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At the request of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., the state Attorney General’s Office is investigating the circumstances surrounding significant budgetary irregularities at the California Department of Parks and Recreation dating back to at least 2000. Governor Brown has also directed the state Department of Finance to conduct a comprehensive audit of Parks’ fiscal controls and the California Natural Resources Agency Secretary John Laird to conduct a sweeping review of Parks’ management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary investigation into Parks’ finances has revealed that for at least 12 years the department underreported tens of millions of dollars to the state Department of Finance. As a result, the Department of Finance was not aware that the State Parks and Recreation Fund and the Off Highway Vehicle Fund held $20,378,000 and $33,492,000 respectively above their official, most recently reported balances. The underreporting occurred over the course of two prior gubernatorial administrations.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:45 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Local park fundraisers speak out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Patrie, who helped line up more than $1 millon in funding to \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201203120850/a\">keep Henry W. Coe State Park in Morgan Hill\u003c/a> open, had this to say via email:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These scandals within DPR won't make it any easier for us to raise additional donations to fund an endowment. I'm very disappointed with DPR leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/13/whatever-it-takes-city-of-benicia-pays-calif-to-keep-state-park-open/\">Bob Berman, VP of the Benicia State Parks Association\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, needless to say I am both shocked and disappointed. If it turns out that this undercounting is true and deliberate, this likely will damage support and sympathy for state parks from members of the State Legislature and the public. This is especially true since so many of the 70 targeted State Parks have not closed because so many nonprofits (such as the Benicia State Parks Association) and their volunteers have stepped forward to keep the parks open.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:56 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Jared Huffman comments\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a06/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Rafael State Assemblyman Jared Huffman\u003c/a> tells KQED's Scott Shafer, the situation is “extremely troubling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very distressing. I think like everyone, when you hear this news, it just sort of makes you sick frankly, cause this is not way to manage the public’s money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said he applauds Gov. Brown’s leadership in immediately involving the Attorney General’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 1:50 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Coleman blames deputy\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_21121187/california-parks-director-resigns-amid-scandal\">Ruth Coleman spoke to the Mercury News' Paul Rogers\u003c/a>, and she's blaming the scandal on her former deputy, Manuel Lopez:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On Sunday, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/15/4631669/unauthorized-vacation-buyouts.html\">Sacramento Bee reported\u003c/a> that former deputy parks director Manuel Lopez had approved $271,000 in vacation buy backs for parks staffers without authorization. Coleman demoted Lopez in October and in May, he resigned under pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Coleman said that the $54 million in unreported money had been concealed by Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was part of his job,\" she said. \"He did not elevate it to my attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she learned of the problem when Lopez's successor, Aaron Robertson, uncovered it as part of an investigation. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_21121187/california-parks-director-resigns-amid-scandal\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"interview\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:31 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Interview with Coleman\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Report's Scott Shafer talked to Ruth Coleman this afternoon. Coleman said again she didn’t know about the extra balance of funds. “Once I found out, we took action and we’re cleaning it up, and the administration is going to continue doing that, and I respect their ability to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she takes responsibility for the actions of her subordinates, and that she offered her resignation to the governor last night. “I just think that right now, the right [thing] is for me to move on, and take this one for the team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coleman said the money isn’t going to solve the park’s ongoing financial issues, but it will help. “It’s important to remember that these funds are still there. They have not been taken from the taxpayers. They’re safe. They can be appropriated subject to the legislature. They should have been day-lighted to finance, but now that they are I think that it’s important to move on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what her former underling, Lopez, who she says is responsible for concealing the funds, may have been thinking, Coleman said, \"It's so hard to get inside somebody else's head.\" She said that she had heard from another person that Lopez' argument for hiding the funds was that they would have been appropriated for the state general fund anyway, but that the comment was only hearsay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3:18 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Interview with Sierra Club California Director Kathryn Phillips\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Governor Jerry Brown, she says, \"has been signaling his disinterest with an interim person in the top post\" of the Parks Department, referring to the fact Coleman is a holdover from the Schwarzenegger Administration. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>This just in: the state Department of Parks and Recreation says it's got 65 deals going to keep parks open. Forty of those deals are signed; 25 more are still in the negotiation phase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=519\">Candlestick Point\u003c/a> in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/26/one-state-park-still-slated-for-closure-candlestick-point/\">recently left for dead\u003c/a>, is now annotated as \"California State Parks Foundation exploring options\" on the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/Parks-List-6-28-12.pdf\">master list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves just five parks with \"no partnership, donor or concession agreement,\" as the department puts it. But acting spokesman Clark Blanchard says he's not even willing to count out the Last Five: \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=476\">Benicia State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=588\">California Mining and Mineral Museum\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=528\">Gray Whale Cove State Beach\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=615\">Providence Mountains State Recreation Area\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=572\">Zmudowski State Beach\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg title=\"More...\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And groups like the Sierra Club (\"At last some good news!\") and the Natural Resources Defense Council are cheering the language tucked in the Governor's \u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/documents/FullBudgetSummary_web.pdf\">budget summary\u003c/a> out today that $10 million in additional dollars will allows the Parks Department to stretch out rescue- deal talks past July 1st.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another $13 million will help the agency bolster its bottom line with capital improvements like credit card readers for parking fees and solar panels to reduce the energy bill in far-flung properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California State Parks Director Ruth Coleman put it on KQED Public Radio's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201206141000\">Forum\u003c/a> show the other day, \"We’re going to continue looking as long as we possibly can to infuse some level of human energy into every one of these parks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/Parks-List-6-28-12.pdf\">\u003cstrong>List: Current status of state parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I went down to Benicia earlier this week, and saw a steady stream of locals enjoying the paved walkway wedged between the 780 and the Southampton Bay Wetland Natural Preserve. Bob Berman of the \u003ca href=\"http://protectbeniciastateparks.com/state-recreation-area.html\">Benicia State Parks Association\u003c/a> told me a couple of new gates will go up to block vehicles on Sunday, but most people walk, jog or cycle in. So what will change? Locals say fewer fishermen will show up for salmon season when that starts in a couple of weeks. It depends on how heavy your tackle is, because you'll have to walk in with it.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69073\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 168px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/1-parkingcan1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-69073\" title=\"1-parkingcan\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/1-parkingcan1-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There has got to be a better revenue collection system. The Parks Department agrees. (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As I'm going to report for the California Report Friday, many of the rescue deals are only for one year, held together with duct tape and rubber bands. These local groups and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBwaJv-ffHg\">California State Parks Foundation\u003c/a> are raising lots and lots of private donations, but depending on the park, those donations give local lovers of California wildlife and history another one to five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Sacramento's 1877 Victorian \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/27/4591433/state-wont-close-mansion-after.html#storylink=cpy\">Governor's Mansion will remain open\u003c/a>, thanks to local donations from organizations as varied as the grocery chain Raley's and the Church of Scientology. (The Church owned a building opposite the mansion and apparently still holds a soft spot for the former home of 13 governors and their families.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mydesert.com/article/20120621/NEWS01/206200378/Council-supports-Salton-Sea-effort\">MyDesert.com\u003c/a> reports The Palm Desert City Council voted last week 5-0 to approve a $10,000 grant to the Sea And Desert Interpretive Association's move to keep the Salton Sea State Recreation Area open past June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of art galleries on First Street in Benicia are still raising money in hopes of saving the Recreation Area. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.beniciapleinair.com/Benicia_Plein_Air_Gallery/Home.html\">Benicia Plein Air Gallery\u003c/a> has a whole wall with wilderness inspired art. 40% of the profits go to support the Association's efforts. The oil refiner Vallero gave $3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So again, what can people expect from not-really-closed parks? 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