Support for California’s state parks can be found everywhere: in thousands of petition signatures and letters, at the shore of Mono Lake, and all over the internet. Check out these two short videos from Folk4Parks, a web-based grassroots movement dedicated to showing people what’s at stake if 70 parks across the state were to be closed.
In Part 1, Folk4Parks explores a question many people have been asking: “What does it mean to ‘close’ a California State Park?” Watch for the familiar faces of the Mono Lake Committee’s Geoff McQuilkin, Mono Lake Volunteer Program Coordinator Janet Carle, and Tufa State Natural Reserve Ranger Dave Marquart in this video.
In Part 2, the question is “What makes a park significant?” The Committee’s Morgan Lindsay appears in this video, and points out that the answer is often very personal—when the state decides which parks are significant, something gets lost in the process.