“If surfers ever want to be a political force, we better learn to stand up. Now.”
- Matt Walker

I have a dream. Actually, it’s more of a nightmare. It’s a vision of coastal communities filled with pavement — but no parking. Where cultures founded on the idea of whole towns enjoying the beach together finally give [...]

Woody Smeck, Superintendent, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, writes:
Dear Friends:
This past week former U.S. Senators J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. (D-La) and
Howard H. Baker (R- TN) announced they are convening a year-long, blue
ribbon commission to recommend policies for the National Park System in the
next century. The system will turn 100 in 2016. The commission (National
Parks [...]

The First African Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1872. In 1903 construction was completed on a Gothic-style structure based on a design by English architect Sir Christopher Wren. The building was destroyed by fire in 1976.
Learn more about Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy.
Visit the Heritage Parkscape online and on flickr.

The Los Angeles Times reports on Jun 14, 2008, that United Coalition to Protect Panhe, a grassroots coalition of Native American tribal members, continues to oppose the toll road to save Panhe and San Onofre State Beach. One faction of the Juaneño band headed by David Belardes has approved a deal to receive $350,000 for [...]

“At the commission hearing, Los Angeles civil rights and environmental attorney Robert Garcia and Acjachemen activist Rebecca Robles and other Native American leaders provided a moving and passionate defense of San Onofre as a critical site for providing access to open space and recreational resources for underserved communities. The San Mateo Creek watershed is actually [...]

“It is the most important work of American art of the 19th century,” Sara Cedar Miller said.
She was referring to Central Park, not to the 3-foot by-8-foot pen-and-ink map over her shoulder. But the two are inseparable. The enormous map depicts “Greensward,” the plan by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux that won the park-design [...]

Dear Friends,
Please help the United Coalition to Protect Panhe (UCPP)—a grassroots alliance of Native Americans—and The City Project save Panhe and San Onofre State Beach, and find an alternative to the toll road that would devastate both.
The California Coastal Commission voted 8-2 to save the sacred Native American site of Panhe and San Onofre and [...]

San Onofre State Beach needs your help! The toll road backers in Orange County are appealing to the federal government to override the Coastal Commission and get special approval to build their toll road through San Onofre State Beach.
Send a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, urging him to deny the toll road appeal.
You’ll [...]

Click on the image to see all sizes of the map and detailed charts analyzing proposed park closures.
The Governor has proposed closing 48 out of 278 priceless State Parks to save money. The proposal would close one out of every six state parks, to save just $9 million.
Four counties with the greatest green access need [...]