California State Parks Foundation Celebrates 10th Year of Legacy Award

The California State Parks Foundation (CSPF) has released a video commemorating its tenth year of awarding its State Parks Legacy Award to deserving state park heroes. The Legacy Award recognizes the efforts of policymakers who have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the protection and enhancement of California’s state parks. The video, produced by Primary Focus Productions, revisits the 10 years of the award with quotes and interviews with awardees about why state parks are so important to them.

State Parks Legacy Award

Each year, CSPF sponsors Park Advocacy Day where participants from across California converge at the state Capitol to lobby policymakers on critical issues facing the state park system, including park protection, funding and closures. At the culmination of the event each year, CSPF gives the Legacy Award to a deserving policymaker(s). To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Park Advocacy Day, CSPF created a retrospective video interviewing past winners.

California State Parks Foundation (CSPF) recognizes the following 15 California policymakers who have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to state parks:

2003 Sheila Kuehl, California State Senator

2004 Fran Pavley, California State Assemblymember

2004 Tom Torlakson, California State Assemblymember

2005, Denise Ducheny, California State Senator

2005 John Laird, California State Assemblymember

2006 Wes Chesbro, California State Senator

2006 Tom Harman, California State Assemblymember

2007 Pedro Nava, California State Assemblymember

2007 Don Perata, California State Senator

2008 Wilmer Amina Carter, California State Assemblymember

2008 Susan Davis, United States Congresswoman

2008 Christine Kehoe, California State Senator