>> State parks will stay open, but most will have “reduced hours of operation and maintenance levels,” reports The L.A. Times. Also, “The park system faces a larger budget cut of $22 million next year.”

>> Construction begins on Malibu Legacy Park, a private/public partnership that’ll create a central park for the city as well as function “like an environmental cleaning machine to reduce pollution impacts and improve water quality in Malibu Creek, Malibu Lagoon and the world-famous Surfrider Beach.” (via ecosalon)

>> Report roadkill via the California Roadkill Observation System. According to The Sierra Club’s The Green Life:

The project, developed at UC Davis, aims to increase understanding of how roads affect ecosystems, and is part of an emerging field called ‘road ecology.’ We already know that cars kill large numbers of animals every year; the project’s aim is to get more detailed information about where roadkill occurs most often, and which animals tend to fall victim.

The roadkill photo gallery’s rather gruesome.

>> L.A. Times profiles the East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, “part of a new generation of urban, blue-collar environmentalists” tackling the disproportionately bad environmental pollution in their working class neighborhoods.

Photo of Montana de Oro State Park by docentjoyce

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