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Regional Parks Newsletter
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Spring Lake Water Bark. Photo by Julie Vader.
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The Dog Days of Spring Lake are Here
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Measure M: Potential Funding for Parks
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Spring Lake Regional Park
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For the first time, Sonoma County voters in November will have an opportunity to create a stable source of funding for both their regional and neighborhood parks.
The
expenditure plan for "Measure M" shows how the county and cities would share the 1/8-cent sales tax and how it would be dedicated to repairing parks, reducing wildfire risks, building new trails, better protecting wildlife and waterways, and making other investments in public safety and access. This fact sheet explains more about the need for the measure.
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What's it Take to Build a Good Trail?
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Volunteers carving trail at Taylor Mountain
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A good trail is like a comfortable pair of shoes: It feels welcoming and pleasing under foot, and takes you confidently to a favorite destination and back.
But making a good
trail takes a lot more than meets the eye. Our latest blog post looks at local trail history, trail successes, and the challenges we face in expanding and renovating our trails network.
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The Benefits of Livestock Grazing in Parks
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You might have been surprised this summer to see sheep munching the dry grasses along the Laguna de Santa Rosa Trail or in Helen Putnam Regional Park. In this video and recent article, we explain how livestock can help us minimize wildfire hazards and promote native plant habitat.
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Join the Statewide Fight for Clean Beaches
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Debris gathered from the Russian River
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Junior Ranger Recruitment is Underway!
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Do you have a nature-loving kid in your life? A kid who'd like to hang out with our rangers and learn wilderness skills, like how to spot steelhead trout in a creek or how to create a first-aid splint from sticks? Sign them up for our new Junior Ranger sessions, and they can earn their own official Regional Parks badge!
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Final Stretch of the Trails Challenge
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Tag your pics #TrailsChallenge #SonomaCountyParks
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This is the last month of the 2018 Trails Challenge, so be sure to finish your five hikes to get a Trails Challenge T-shirt while supplies last. If you're down for an epic hike, the Sugar-Hood Shuttle runs Sept. 8-9, so you can park your car at Hood Mountain's Los Alamos Road lot, ride the shuttle to Sugarloaf Ridge, and make the 8-mile one-way trek from park to park. Or, if want to park at Sugarloaf and get dropped at Hood, you can do that too.
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Wildfire Anniversary: Community Healing Together
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Join us under the oaks at Shiloh Ranch
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As we reach the one-year anniversary of the wildfires, we invite you to Shiloh Ranch Regional Park on Oct. 6 for an afternoon of artistic expression focused on community resiliency and connections. This all-ages event will feature musical performances, arts and crafts, mural painting, poetry, and guided hikes through the park's recovering landscape.
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