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Escalona Gulch, Capitola No data 1,200 625 166 105 18 0 9 15

Hope of Peace Cemetary, Santa Cruz No data 6 6 27 1 No data 1 8

Lighthouse Field, Santa Cruz 70,000 50,000 9,500 35,000 No data 3,200 11,000 6,000 22,000

Lifeguard QU, 14th Ave., Santa Cruz No data No data No data 43 13 4 0 30 No data

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New Brighton State Beach, Capitola No data 445 2,000 2,640 64 8 3 520 617

Rispin Mansion, Capitola No data 5 20 11 17 0 0 16 11

Seascape Golf Course, Aptos No data 240 280 1,050 1,400 4 No data 1,000 700

South Branciforte, Santa Cruz No data 2 27 24 23 No data 0 100 48

Citizen Scientist Monarch Count

pres·er·va·tion – noun1. the guarding of something from danger,

harm, or injury2. maintenance of something, especially some-

thing of historic value, in an unchanged condition

3. the keeping of something intangible intact

As you can see from the definition, preservation is key to the Friends mission. Over the years, we have fought to set our

local natural wonders aside for the future. The battle, however, is not over.

Within the ongoing battle we experience success. This is the fun part. At That’s My Park Day in April, pulling ice plant was a team effort that included one

3-year old, two teenagers, a couple of us middle-agers and two retired folks. We freed the wetlands of non-native plants and had a blast. My belief is that essential to ongoing preservation will be many small victories such as this one.

In this issue of ParkViews, we focus on the Monarch Grove at Natural Bridges. It is a true example of the definition of preservation. This is an active process and one that we often have to learn about as we go.

In future ParkViews, as we continue to feature other natural places that need “guarding from danger” and “maintenance in an unchanged condition,” I hope you will join me in a continued discussion of how to best ensure that preservation thrives in our local state parks.

BOARD & STAFF

OFFICerSLise Peterson – Chair ElectHeather Butler – SecretaryJim Toney – TreasurerIsabel AlvaradoStu BranoffJim BrownsonPat ClarkVal ColeJohn KegebeinLinda HoffLani LeBlancBarney LevyDon NielsenLisa SmithChief ranger

Kirk Lingenfelter - CAL

STAFFrandy Widera –

Executive DirectorChrista Stiner –

Operations DirectorAnnie MacHale –

Retail ManagerKelsey ramage –

PR & MembershipCynthia rybicki –

Accounting AssistantPeg Danielson –

Executive AssistantMarianne Wyllie –

Graphic Artist

STATe PArK INTerPreTIVe STAFFJodi ApeltJeff BarnesBarbara Cookseyelizabeth HammackBobbie HaverLinda HitchcockKerith KoontzJan LeppeMartha NitzbergJeff PriceTeresa rogowaySunny SchachterCarolyn SchimandleJosh Stark

Traditions SharedGrand Opening Pacific Migrations Visitor Center

Many people who came to the grand opening of the Pacific Migrations Visitor Center at New Brighton State Beach in early April mentioned being deeply moved. “Music for Two Strings”

performed beautifully evocative Chinese music. Children danced the weaving Lion Dance and pounded the big red drums. Sandy Lydon and many of the donors who helped create this new educational center savored the completion of a dream.

Friends’ fifth visitor center and museum explores human and animal migrations to our area and honors many histories, includ-ing early tourists and the prominent Chinese community based here from the 1840s to 1880s. School groups are signing up to tour the beautiful new exhibits and learn stories they could not access before this center opened. Friends, California State Parks, and local donors collaborated on this $325,000 project for four years. Friends’ new docent program here is attracting great people who want to help share the rich trove of stories with park visitors.

On saturday april 15, Friends launched our new cam-paign and new parks movement, “That’s My Park,” which directly benefits the Education and Stewardship

funds of Wilder Ranch, Natural Bridges, Seacliff and the Forest of Nisene Marks.

Our day began at Wilder Ranch, where hard-core docents and volunteers braved uncertain weather to come speak about why they love their parks. To all those who shared their passion for their parks and inspired others—a big thank you!

Sadly, due to our wet spring weather, we could not do the spring planting for Wilder’s heritage garden that day. If you’d like, please consider helping to tend that lovely garden now that the soil is dry enough to be worked. Please contact Carolyn Schimandle at Wilder Ranch, (831) 426-0505 or cschimandle@parks.ca.gov.

Dozens of dedicated folks joined Friends and our partners, Land Trust of Santa Cruz County and Trailworkers.com, for our after-noon work party in the wetlands of Natural Bridges. Kudos to all who participated in this effort! Our work eradicating non-native species from the park was a raging success!

Our late afternoon reception at Natural Bridges Visitor Cen-ter officially launched our campaign and capped the big day, complete with hilarious, moving speeches by local political hero Fred Keeley, sector superintendent ranger Kirk Lingenfelter, and renowned artist Michael Schwab, creator of the stunning images that are the heart of That’s My Park. Our day of celebrating together was a terrific start for our next 30 years of stewarding our local state parks.

Thank you to all of you who joined us for this special day. Don’t despair if you missed the launch, for the campaign continues over the next three years. Friends will provide more oppor-tunities for you to say “Hey—That’s My Park,” and to enjoy, learn and give back to our parks.

THAT’S MY PARK DAY: THE TERRIFIC LAUNCH OF OUR EXCITING NEW CAMPAIGN

by Randy Widera Friends Executive Director

By calling that number, this accidental lepidopterist (someone who studies butterflies and moths) added another piece of

key information to the mysteries of monarch butterfly migration.

In the Columbia Gorge of Southern Washington is where Robert Pyle, intentional lepidopterist, embarked on his journey to study the migra-tion of monarchs. He had captured and tagged the individual who arrived weeks later in Aptos. Mr. Pyle and other scientists have used tagging stud-ies to gain insight into the movements of monarchs.

From spring through late summer, monarchs leave their over-wintering homes here along the California Coast and in central Mexico. They fan out, following the emerging milkweed. The western population heads for the Sierra foothills, Oregon and Washington. The eastern population works their way up throughout the Midwest and Eastern seaboard, up into Canada. The Great Divide of the Rocky Moun-tains was once thought to divide in the populations, but in recent years, Robert Pyle’s work has given us a more complex picture, with individuals mov-ing among the Western and Eastern populations.

In the early fall, possibly triggered by the equinox, the fifth generation from the monarchs that left here last spring, turn around at the far reaches of their range. These individuals make the longest and most ambitious journey of any insect to return to their winter homes. These great-great-great-grand-children somehow find their way, over hundreds of miles, and have never been here before. In sheltered groves, like the grove at Natural Bridges State Beach, monarchs ride out the winter in their clusters until early spring, when they fly off in search of milkweed again.

This amazing story of the monarchs is told over and over again in the Natural Bridges Visitor Center, in the mon-arch sanctuary, and in this newsletter, to thousands of school children and visitors each year. Of the monarchs’ many over-wintering locations in Santa Cruz County, only Natural Bridges is managed so that school children can observe and learn first hand about the monarchs. Natural Bridges has also been an ideal location for scientists to study these hearty insects. Scientists have worked in the grove for years, analyzing the qualities and factors that make the grove a sound habitat, and the relationship between the differ-

ent over-wintering sites in the county. Their work inspired the Interpreters and docents of Natural Bridges to form a group of “Citizen Scientists” who for the past nine years have monitored the monarch population in the Natural Bridges grove throughout the winter, plus a Thanksgiving count of the monarch population in each grove in the county.

We face a threat at Natural Bridges that could render this grove unsuit-able as an over-wintering sanctuary for the monarchs: the grove is maturing, thinning out and growing taller. As older trees on the outside of the grove are blown over in winter storms, or die from age and disease, more wind and cold air are penetrating the grove.

Monarchs need a stable microcli-mate and are vulnerable to wind and temperature shifts. Heavy winter storms can now drive them from Natural Bridges. By last January, school children visiting Natural Bridges did not find monarchs clustering in the grove, forcing many teachers to cancel their field trips altogether. Data from the Thanksgiving counts indicate Santa Cruz County butterfly popula-tions are down, and proportionally, monarchs are choosing other locations than Natural Bridges. No conclusions have been drawn from the data, but do point to actions we can take now.

Though trees are susceptible to natural forces of change, careful management

like planting windbreaks around the periphery of the grove can provide the necessary habitat requirements for future generations of monarchs.

We have seen in the past what happens when a monarch grove matures or is disturbed: at the Santa Cruz Natural History Museum and at Washington Street in Pacific Grove, the monarchs have never returned. There is a tipping point where the butterflies will no longer seek shelter in the grove, and Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks are determined to prevent such a tragedy at Natural Bridges.

We are initiating the Natural Bridges Monarch Grove Education & Steward-ship Fund this July. Our goal is to aid the State Parks in fully managing the sanctuary as prime monarch habitat. Thankfully we have the insight and knowledge of experienced scientists, the passion and hard work of State Park Interpreter Martha Nitzberg and her volunteers, plus the expertise of State Park ecologist Tim Hyland.

The plan being developed includes:• Planting and caring for new trees• Establishing weekly monitoring

protocol so volunteers can add to our knowledge base.

• Evaluating the surrounding habitat for monarch nectar resources.

• Community and visitor outreach and education

• Ongoing grove stewardship projects• Recruiting stewardship volunteers

For over twelve years I have had the pleasure of being one of the volun-teers at Natural Bridges; monitoring the grove as a citizen scientist, leading groups of children, and playing guitar in the 5Ms band at Welcome Back Monarchs Day.

I believe that we all have to act now to ensure that we are welcoming back monarchs for years to come at Natural Bridges. We may not know “How that butterfly found its way here from Washington State” but we can make sure that when they arrive, they have safe place where they can ride out the winter, where children can watch them in their clusters and where scientists, both accidental and intentional, can unravel more of their mysteries.

Natural Bridges Monarch Grove Education

and Stewardship Fund

Here is how you can help: • Donate to Friends and receive our

new artwork as limited edition fine art silkscreen print(s), signed and numbered by artist Michael Schwab. Donations are 100% tax deductible and all proceeds go to the Education and Stewardship Funds for respective parks. See page 6 for more information.

• Volunteer at Natural Bridges as a docent and citizen scientist. Help protect the grove. To secure your place, please contact Martha at 831-423-4609. See page 5.

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by Randy Widera, Friends Executive Director

t Fred Keeley & Randy Widera at That's My Park Day s Park Volunteers restore habitat at Natural Bridges s Drummers and lion dancers help open Pacific Migrations Visitor Center

How did that butterfly find it’s way here from Washington State?” A young Aptos boy found a worn and tattered monarch butter-fly struggling for life in the middle of his street. He picked up the 1-oz. insect after it gave its last breath and noticed on one of its hind wings, a white sticker with a phone number and an identification number.

s Arial photo of the Monarch Grove, Natural Bridges

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Learn Wilder Ranch State Park1401 Coast Road, Santa Cruz 2 miles north of Santa Cruz on Highway 1 • 831-426-0505Visitor Center & Park Store open 10a– 4p Thursday – Sunday (& July 4th)

Living History Demonstrations11a–3p most Saturdays & SundaysDocents in period dress bring history alive

Tour the Historic Ranch Buildings1p Saturdays & Sundays (1 hr)

Walking Tour of Gray Whale Ranch Area 10a 2nd Saturday (3 hrs)

Coast Nature Walks10a each Saturday (2 hrs)Bring water, lunch & walking shoes

Seacliff State Beach201 State Park Drive in Aptos831-685-6444Visitor Center & Park Store open 10a– 4p 7 days/week until Labor Day

Cement Ship FestivalSaturday June 3 11a – 4p

Celebrate the 1920s, WW1 Concrete Ship Palo Alto, ancient fossils & those living in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. enjoy music, food, and fun. Learn with arts, crafts, games & stories. Make a kite to fly on the beach. Shop in our Park Store for apparel and gifts with our new artwork.

Discover Seacliff History 1p most Saturdays (1 hr)One-eyed-Charley, Spreckels sugar, logging & surfing

Ancient Fossil Beds at SeacliffNooN 1st & 3rd Sunday (1 hr)Touch the history of an inland sea

The Forest of Nisene Marks State ParkAptos Creek Road at Soquel Drive, Aptos Village • Call 831-763-7123 or 831-685-6444 to schedule guided walks enjoy ferns, redwood ecology & local logging history. Bring water, sunscreen & good walking shoes

Natural Bridges State Beach3531 West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz831-423-4609 Call for infoVisitor Center & Park Store open 10a – 4p Friday – Monday – summer

Tide Pool Explorations at low tideexplore diverse, fascinating tide pools, intertidal habitat.Wear layered clothing & shoes with good traction

Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park 144 School Street, downtown Santa Cruz • 831-425-5849Mission Adobe, Visitor Center & Park Store open 10a–4p Thursday – Sunday Oldest building in Santa Cruz tells of many peoples

Guided Tour 1p Sundays

Sunset State Beach201 Sunset Beach Road, Watsonville • Call 831-763-7123 for more info

Summer Campfire Programs Friday & Saturday eves

Junior Rangers Fridays & Saturdays – summer

enjoy• Colorful profusion of spring

and summer wildflowers bloom forth, especially at Wilder ranch and Sunset

• Bright, soft new ferns grace woodland shade, especially in the Forest of Nisene Marks

• Great flocks of Sooty Shearwaters (Puffinus Griseus) arrive from New Zealand and circle offshore around Monterey Bay all summer. View their migration path in our new Pacific Migrations Visitor Center at New Brighton.

Donate to Friends for fine art silkscreen prints of our new compelling artwork, limited edition, signed and numbered by renowned artist Michael Schwab. 100% tax deductible. All proceeds go to education & Stewardship Funds for respective parks. See page 6 and visit www.thatsmypark.org for info.

Buy your own square foot of historic Meder Home at Wilder Ranch. Help us furnish this

innovative “Touch and Use” Living Museum, with sturdy replica antiques, so curious children and visitors can grasp rural life in 1900. For each $30 donation, receive one limited edition, copper coated Wilder ranch coin or key ring coin, 1.5.” Available at our 1906 Fourth of July Celebration or contact us. We’re over halfway to our $50,000 goal!

Attend Monarch University at Natural Bridges in September and become a docent:• Learn remarkable Monarch

butterfly science from uniquely knowledgeable teachers

• Lead Monarch butterfly tours for schoolchildren & other visitors

• Host people from around the corner and the globe at our Visitor Center & Park Store

• Become a citizen scientist & monitor Monarch Grove habitat

To secure your place, please contact Martha at 831-423-4609 or mnitzberg@parks.ca.gov

Shop Friends’ park stores at Seacliff, New Brighton, Natural Bridges Wilder ranch, Mission Adobe and online at www.thatsmypark.org. All proceeds benefit our parks. Discount 15% for all members of Friends! Watch for our new Friends’ store coming soon to the Rancho del Mar Shopping Center.

Give a Friends’ membership to a loved one and help bring our local state parks alive with learning and wonder.

Saturday June 10 Forest of Nisene Marks Vigorous! 5.5 miles min, 800 feet elevation, 4 hour minHike through coastal history & rich second growth redwood forest, with experienced docent leaders, ed Gilbert and Jim Toney. Bring water, lunch and good hiking shoes.

Saturday June 17 10a Natural Bridges Tide Poolseasy .5 mile Hidden treasures appear at low tide in fascinating intertidal habitat, with Pat Clark, longtime Natural Bridges docent & Friends’ former board chair. Wear sturdy shoes with good traction.

Member Hikes RSVP 831-429-1840 or kelsey@thatsmypark.org

W hen you think of Friends, you may think of the many educational and interpretive programs we sponsor in our parks, and maybe the cool

merchandise you can pick up in our park stores. This summer, Friends has even more for you to enjoy.The Plein Air Affaire: Outdoor Painting in Scenic Santa Cruz County is a commu-nity event hosted by the Museum of Art and History in downtown Santa Cruz. This is MAH’s second annual celebration of outdoor painting, this year featuring Natural Bridges as one of the environmental painting sites. Friends is honored to sponsor the award for best “wet” painting, acknowledging the best wet painting created specifically for this event. In collaboration with MAH’s Plein Air Affaire, we will celebrate the Friends’ That’s My Park campaign to support the Natural Bridges Monarch Grove Education and Stewardship fund.

Friday July 7 from 5–8p: The weekend begins with a gala Museum Member’s Preview, reception and sale at MAH. Members of both Friends and MAH can mingle and enjoy the artwork. At this reception, we will conclude our raffle of a lovely painting by local artist Barbara Bailey Porter, along with some other prizes. The painting, “Spring at Lighthouse Field” (shown below), can be viewed at the Friends office.

Saturday July 8 & Sunday July 9: The artwork (see the MAH website www. santacruzmah.org for Plein Air Affaire details) will be on display at Abbott Square (the Museum courtyard) during the public sale, with demonstrations from 11a–5p daily.

Sunday July 9 at 3p: Friends will sponsor a symposium highlighting how art can inspire environmental stewardship.

T ickets for the raffle will be $10 each, 3 for $25 or a book of 10 for $75. Friends needs you to get out and sell tickets. We

will make it worth your time with our raffle ticket incentive plan. Sell a book of 10 and receive a set of eight distinctive That’s My Park notecards. Sell two books and receive the beauti-ful That’s My Park T-shirt of your choice. Sell three books and the That’s My Park Sweatshirt you’ve had your eye on is yours. The person selling the most tickets will receive our fabulous grand prize —a back country ride-along for two through the Coast Dairies Property (which is currently closed to the public) and the back country at Wilder Ranch with Ranger Joe Con-nors and our own Randy Widera. If you just want to pick up a couple of tickets for yourself, please call Peg at the Friends’ Office, (831) 429-1840. Tickets sold at the reception on July 7th will cost the full face value, so get them early for the best deal.

Reception June 28 5:30pm

Santa Cruz County Bank 595 Auto Center Drive Watsonville

Please join us for a reception at the bank honoring this stunning artwork and the artists. All pieces will be sold at that time, with an exciting live auction of select pieces, including the Schwab prints. To submit a proxy bid for an auction item, or pre-purchase one of the other pieces, please call Peg by Friday, June 23 at the Friends Office (831) 429-1840. All sale proceeds directly benefit the education and Stewardship funds of Wilder ranch, Natural Bridges, Seacliff and the Forest of Nisene Marks.

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s Bobcat, Moore Creek Watershed. Photo: Frank Balthis

Independence Day

CelebrationTuesday July 4 11am – 4pm

Wilder ranch State Park1401 Old Coast Road, Santa Cruz

Independence Day conjures up images of a small-town 100 years ago: a band playing, noon parade, 3-legged races, lemonade, watermelon, hand-cranked ice cream. enjoy relaxed family atmosphere, as folks return year after year for our most popular special event. View Meder House under renovation.

s Carol Brownson & Kelsey Ramage at Meder House, 1905 Fourth of July

s “ Spring at Lighthouse Field” by Barbara Bailey-Porter ~ Oil on CanvasDonated to Friends for First Prize in Raffle ~ $1,000 value

s Lupin and tiny tips surround fallen oak tree. Photo: Don Nielsen s Poppies on Wilder hillside. Photo: Don Nielsen.

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Stunning Artwork Celebrating Our ParksOn Exhibit Now

Friends is pleased to bring the natural beauty of our parks inside for you to appreciate and own at our first art exhibit and sale at Santa Cruz County Bank’s dramatic new Watsonville Branch, up now through June 28.

The show is a great opportunity to see the serigraph fine art prints in our first series of park artwork for That’s My Park, created by renowned graphic artist, Michael Schwab, in celebration of Santa Cruz County’s coastal state parks. For more information about these fine art prints, please see page 6 or go to www.thatsmypark.org.

Gorgeous photos taken in our parks by prominent local artists complement the artwork, including works by Frank Balthis, John Goldberg, Mike Miller, Don Nielson, and our very own Randy Widera (see photos above). When you go to see the exhibit, be sure to drop your name into the drawing to win beau-tiful That’s My Park apparel and merchandise.

Background image: Vista from Big Basin.

Background image: Wilder Wildflowers. Photo: Don Nielsen

Major Donors rowland & Patricia rebele $25,000Anonymous $25,000Anonymous $10,000Anonymous $5000Anonymous $5000Lode Data Systems $5000Anonymous $4000Anonymous $2000Finkelman Family Foundation $2000Anonymous $1850Jon and Jill Winston $1500Bonnie & George Clark $1000Val Cole & Freny Cooper $1000Linda & Ted Hoff $1000Anne Lynn & Todd Patterson $1000Julie Packard & robt Stephens $1000Ted Burke $800

That’s My Park Lynne and Dan AlperBruce BangertMary and Steven BignellBorina FoundationCalifornia State ParksAndrew and eisha CarrollShannon and Curtis CobbVal Cole and Freny CooperJoe CollongeCommunity Printers *Peggy and Paul DanielsonJanice DiCiuccioMary edmundFood Bin & Herb room *Joseph FranksMegan JohnsonLand Trust Santa Cruz County *Lani LeBlancMark Leitch and Jan WestLinda LesterNancy MachadoLinda PrestonJane reid and Alan AllwardtPamela rhodesJean SchaafGeoff SealJoe SimitianTom Stearns and Joy BertrandBarry Swenson Builders *David and Monica TerrazasTrailworkers.com *Maria Widera & Familyrandy Wildera and Julie Sidel* in kind donations

Gold $500AnonymousBruce BangertMary and Steven BignellBorina FoundationCathy and Jack BradleyShannon and Curtis CobbVal Cole and Freny CooperJoe CollongeDiane and Don CooleyPeggy and Paul DanielsonMary edmundJoseph FranksGranite ConstructionLinda and Ted HoffMegan JohnsonMark Leitch and Jan WestAnne Lynn and Todd PattersonNancy MachadoGretchen and Jim MairLinda MeltonCraig & Dusty MillerJoan and Bob Murphy Julie Packard & robert StephensLise Peterson and Don PeattiePlantronicsLeland and Vivian PrussiaDebbie and Louis SalkindGeoff SealTom Stearns & elizabeth NowickiDavid and Monica TerrazasJim and Carol ToneyGloria Hihn WelshTanya WendlingJulie, randy & Denali WideraTanya Wendling

SilverAnonymousLynne & Dan Alper FundStu BranoffKaren CogswellDiane Crawfordricardo de la CruzDaryl DichekCraig FrenchLinda Lee LesterJan Pfiffner and Timmy Fasteenredtree Properties, LPPamela rhodesMaria Widera & FamilyChris Young

BronzeAnonymousJack BassettDennis and Terese BorondaJim and Carol BrownsonDr. Fred and Kate ChenMark and eve DavidsonAdela FeranJim and Jean GervaisDr. John and Susan GlinaMelanie Grabe and Barry Hoglundrobin GriffithDan and rebecca HaifleyDavid HeynGlenn JohnsonJeannie and John KegebeinPat and Charlie KiefferMike and Karen LasdayPhyllis and Dick LeshinArlene Levy and Paul FigueroaDiane and Stephen McIntryeMichael MerrithewKatharine MinottLinda PrestonCheryl and Joe PrussPatricia and William rackstrawJane reid and Alan AllwardtHerbert richardsJonah and Jennifer rubinJean SchaafPhilip and Irene SidelBrewster and Deborah SmithChrista StinerPaul Thiltgen and Maureen roleGrace VossLenore WaxBirgit Weskamp

Park StewardsArt AndrewsKarin BehrensLyn and Bill BinchWilliam BrooksLynne and John CaldwellKaren ChristensenPat Clark and Chela LucasCarol ClarkKate ClarkPeter and Sharleen ColeMaree and Mark CreedBill CummingsBrad DavisJoanie and Joe Dellos-TaylorPat and Ted DurkeeJames and Marianne FranksMark Hamersly and ruth Updegraff Tonya HaroDeAnne and rich HartJoni JaneckiKathleen Loughlin and randall reaJoe and Lee Mac DonellLew MerrillMike Morton and Nancy LewisDania MossDon NielsenJo and ron OlmsteadPamela Poetsch and James PellegrinLiz ryanCynthia rybickirandall Schragg and Jody PeughJudy and Jim SchultzeJanet SchwindCelia and Peter ScottMari TustinNancy Walker

FamilyIsabel Alvarado and eddy DeesLeslie and richard AndrewsNannette BenedictGeorge BunchCynthia Chang and Thomas YinMark ConoverChris and Pat CrossGenevieve DeanMaria del rio and Glen IshiwataBill and Ann Frohn Marcella and Joe HallTom and Joan HamiltonAnn and Tom HarrisJohn Horvath and Marlene WaiteBen and Mary ellen IronsBurton Kendall and Sally TowseKevin Klein and Amy LocksStephen and Jane LauDebbie and Alex LiardetMike McConnellCiro and Sheri MilazzoBonnie MurphyDoris and Leo PfiffnerCris and Linda SanguinoSusan SchaeferMargaret and William ShakespeareKirk and Pat SmithBud and Betty StumpPamela and Herb TaylorDonna and Peter ThomasBonnie and Lee Tinderelaine and Jerry WaggonerPeter and Christine WangLinda Wilshusen and rock Pfotenaur

SupportingDeborah AllenCarole and Tom BeckettDavid Berklandrichard BoyceHolly ButlerDevon CattrellGreg ChristopherPeggy and James CliffordSonia and Thomas DeetzMaggie DicksonBetsy eakmanJan and Jerry Finneyearlene FreemanLeslie FreundLorraine GaudinDotty GibbLaura GigesJim GrossmanDiane and Howard GrunesGrace HansenDyane and Craig HarwoodHedwig HeerschopTrish HucklebridgeMiriam KaplanMolly KeeslingSue and Bruce KissellGerry MartinCarol McCarthyLynn and Bill MoffatAmy NewellNick PapadakisJoyce PassowHelene PaulyBill and Jutta PerryKelsey ramageMathilde randAudrey rockstrohFrancine ronaldAnne SherwoodPath StarGabrielle StockerNancy ThomasDavid-Ladd WilsonMarsha WisemanMargaret and Jan Ysselstein

Student/SeniorSally AltickDavid Anaya Jane BorgKathy CurtazDarryl and Marilyn DillGinny DillinghamJack and Iris FarrDorothy ForsterMary FranichMarge and Malcolm FraserLinda and robert FrisbeyNan Goldsteinrose Gong and G. NessMarjorie JacksonDart and Peggy KeechDorothy KuklaWendell MaberryMarji Macruryemily MaloneyLenore Millsralph Mooersros and Jim MunroHannah NielsenJulia PattonMiriam and Vernon PikeBob PiwarzykDottie robinsonMarie romeroWolfgang rosenberg and Norma Del GaudioBrenda SchmidaHelen SchombergBonita SebastianPhyllis StollenwerkPat and Tom WhitakerCharlotte and William Wilson

Seacliff Pier Memorial BenchJohn Akeman & Family

to all our new and renewing members and donors

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Big basin state park, outside the township of Boulder Creek, was our first state park. Andrew P.

Hill’s affection and dedication in the 19th century gave us this jewel in the crown of the State Parks system, where so many, including me, fell in love with the natural beauty of parks, and our responsibility for them.

Several times each summer in the 1950s, my parents and grandparents took my older brother and I from our home in the oppressive heat of Sacramento to the cool, fog-engulfed wonderland that is Big Basin State Park, with majestic, cathedral-like redwood groves, sword ferns lining perennial and annual streams, and many birds living at every level of forest canopy.

I moved to Boulder Creek in the 1970s after graduating from San Jose State University and connected again to Big Basin. With my running partner, Dr. David Resneck-Sannes, I ran trails in Big Basin, Henry Cowell, Forest of Nisene Marks, and Wilder Ranch— each a gem in its own right, and each a world of wonder, natural beauty, and inspiration. Running is good for the body, and running in a State Park is great for the soul.

When Central Coast voters kindly sent me back to Sacramento as their representative in the California State Assembly, I naturally focused some work on State Parks. For future generations to access the wonders my parents and grandparents gave me, I authored Proposition 12 in 2000, and Proposition 40 in 2002, the two largest park and environmental protection bonds ever enacted in our nation’s history. Voters clearly demonstrated their great love and support for our California State Parks system by big majorities for both bond measures.

Propositions 12 and 40 have helped us meet the capital needs of our State Parks system, but cannot address their operational expenses. As California grows by nearly 500,000 people every year, pressures on our State Parks system dwarf the skeletal funds designated by the governor and the legislature. Our State Parks need and deserve a permanent, dedicated fund-ing source for their operational needs. One idea I find attractive is a tiny fee for recordation of all real property documents in California. Even a ten-dollar fee would generate millions of dollars dedicated to protecting and enhancing our state parks and other natural resources.

As we seek that elusive permanent, dedicated State Parks funding source for basic park operations, it is vital that we support the Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks. And after we acquire that funding source, we need Friends, too, for they ignite park stewardship by skillfully inspiring park visitors to enjoy, learn and give back to their beloved State Parks.

It is an honor and a pleasure to be associated with the Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks. I thank you and all the fine people who help Friends in their essential, wonderful and hard work.

Sincerely, Fred Keeley

Stewards Storytellers

Fred Keeley lives in

Santa

Cruz, where he is Treasurer of the County of Santa Cruz. From

1996 through 2002, Mr. Keeley represented the Monterey Bay

area in the California State Assembly, where he served as Speaker

pro Tempore of the Assembly from 1998 through 2002. Prior to

his service in the legislature, Mr. Keeley served for eight years on

the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, representing the San

Lorenzo Valley-Scotts Valley area. Mr. Keeley is a member of the

Board of Directors of the California League of Conservation Voters,

and has been widely recognized for his leadership in the making

of environmental policy, including by the University of California,

which established a lecture series in his honor, the Fred Keeley

Lectures on the environment at UCSC.

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MISSION STATEMENT

Friends of Santa Cruz

State Parks is dedicated

to promoting the

appreciation and

stewardship of our

local state parks’

natural and cultural

heritage by facilitating

and supporting

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