Santa Monica Mountains for All: Expanding the Largest Urban National Park for Green Justice
By Ramya Sivasubramanian, Assistant Director and Counsel with The City Project The Santa Monica Mountains are L.A.’s backyard, but for children of color living in poverty with no access to a car, they may as well be worlds away. Expanding the largest urban national park in the country and creating adequate public transportation to the park will bring this resource to all [...]
Get Healthy in the Parks—Five Events to Keep You Motivated
Did you kick off the new year with a resolution to get more exercise? Me too. With such wide-ranging health benefits— from lowering stress to improving brain function to getting a better night’s sleep—it’s no wonder so many of us start January by putting on our workout gear. (All that carbo-loading in December helps, too!) So join the club—but maybe [...]
“Win-Win” Partnership for Wounded Warriors Benefits Veterans and the Park Service
For a great read, I recommend this profile of Army 1st Sgt. Tim Thompson, a veteran of seven tours of duty in both Iraq and Afghanistan, who is interning at Florissant Fossil Beds through a “win-win” partnership with the Park Service. Thompson has already put his skills to work saving the federal government thousands of dollars by helping oversee the construction of [...]
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