Over 100 Businesses Behind State Parks

Business Leaders Sign Statement Urging Governor to Keep Parks Open

Environment California

SACRAMENTO- Over 100 leaders from local businesses across California have lent their names to a statement calling on Governor Brown to keep state parks open and re-think the dangerous trigger cuts included in his FY2012-2013 budget proposal. These trigger cuts would cut lifeguards on state beaches and 20% of state park rangers, threatening public safety. The statement was coauthored by Environment California and the California State Parks Foundation.

As park closures loom, business owners are beginning to wonder what will happen when the natural tourist attractions in their communities are closed and visitors are turned away.

Timm Kennedy of The Spoke Cyclery in Berkeley reflected that, “My customers rely on these places to use our products and we don’t want to see them go.”

By signing the statement of support for state parks, these local business leaders add their voices to the more than 20,000 petitions that Environment California has already collected from every day citizens who want to see California’s state parks stay open.

Each business owner who signed the statement is receiving a poster for their storefront that shows where state parks are closing and urges Californians to get involved in order to save them.