State urged to turn over parks to local governments, nonprofits
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 01:00
in Earth & Climate
The Little Hoover Commission says California has more land than it can manage, with a system that is obsolete and staffed by rangers schooled in law enforcement, not innovation. SACRAMENTO — California's first attempt to run a park more than a century ago was a disaster. Over a campfire in the backcountry, John Muir himself urged President Theodore Roosevelt to rescue thousands of acres in the Yosemite Valley from the state's neglect — and it remains a national park to this day.