Press Banner - Local state parks in jeopardy of closing

06/05/09

Henry Cowell State Park and Big Basin State Park would be among the 220 California state parks and beaches that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposes to close as part of his latest plan to narrow California’s $24.3 billion budget deficit.

“It would be dismantling a system that has taken more than 150 years to build,” said Bonny Hawley, the executive director of Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks. “I don’t think we’ve ever experienced something like this.”