Check out any of the six state parks within 25 miles of the city limits.
Below is a breakdown of park staffing at Arizona State Parks in 2010, the nadir of their budget woes.
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In California, many state parks are booked well into the spring, said Sheryl Watson, spokeswoman for California State Parks.
State parks are among the cheapest places to sleep under the stars.
Here in Arizona, as in California and many other states, the state parks budget has been cut substantially, leading to threats of park closures.
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Among that agency's tasks is to study whether there is a way to make drilling legal in state parks a proposal that has riled environmental groups.
Now, the building is being converted into the Outdoor Adventure Center, featuring exhibits on state parks and simulated outdoor recreation experiences, and set to open by January 2015.
In 1998 an imprisoned serial rapist in Washington State was caught sending suggestive notes to callers who were giving their addresses to request information about state parks.
State parks provide solitude, recreation, living laboratories, inspiration to artists, habitat for plants and animals and connections to cultural, historical and natural places, the National Park Trust report notes.
He promotes the concept of an Eastern wildway to physically connect America's state parks, conservation areas and forests so wide-ranging animals such as bears, wolves and eagles can roam freely.
Nearly 10, 000 square miles were effected by the spill, including a national forest, four national wildlife refuges, three national parks, five state parks, four state critical habitat areas and a state game sanctuary.
California lawmakers should outsource management of some state parks to cope with chronic under funding, advised an influential state commission, which found that the state had expanded its park system without providing adequate income to support it.
He suspended the use of prescribed burns by state agencies on state lands -- including state parks, refuges, State Land Board lands and any agency that manages lands -- or under contract on nonstate lands, such as by the Colorado State Forest Service.
Elizabeth Goldstein, president of the California State Parks Foundation, which helped provide funding for some parks last year, praised the report but said time is short to implement a new plan, given that a moratorium on park closures passed by the legislature last year expires in 2014.
Florida, home to Walt Disney World, for example, has state officials who inspect rides at theme parks with fewer than 1, 000 employees, but the state relies on large parks like Disney World and Universal Studios to regulate themselves.
The Little Hoover Commission, in a report released Monday, asked Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders to help the state Department of Parks and Recreation restructure the way it manages its 280 parks to avoid the kind of fiscal crisis that led to plans to close 70 parks in 2012 before last-minute maneuvers spared them.
The settlements ended claims against state agencies including the Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Office, Downstate Medical Center, the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp.
In the US, on the other hand, the federal government only regulates rides at travelling carnivals and fairs, while state governments regulate stationary parks.
Men like Malone, Turner and Bacon have the means to save properties as large as state and even national parks in one fell swoop.
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While acknowledging that DEC staffing was at the lowest level in a decade, Martens said there were no plans to close any state facilities such as parks, campgrounds, fish hatcheries, or the pheasant-breeding farm in central New York.
Watson said parks near the state's urban centers are especially popular, because camping can be an inexpensive way for someone to visit a city like San Francisco, where hotels can cost 10 or 20 times the price of a camping spot.
Theme parks are sensitive to the state of the economy, and the stock trades at a nosebleed valuation of 32 times expected 2013 earnings.
In Oklahoma, the state allowed one of its most popular parks to deteriorate badly before selling it to a development company, which is turning it into a luxurious private resort.
The Mpumalanga Parks Board, which manages state-owned reserves in Mpumalanga province, home to most of South Africa's wildlife, has just sold a lease to develop some of its best reserves to the Dolphin Group, a Dubai company, in a deal which also did not go out to tender and was indeed originally kept secret.
Even while Governor Brown brags of a balanced budget, he ignores the off-budget pension fund deficit which threatens loss of government services and closure of parks and libraries, prompts municipal bankruptcies, and keeps the state deeply in debt.
In the 35-page complaint, the residents and parks groups argue that the city is required to ask the state Legislature for permission to lease Damrosch Park under a statute known as the public trust doctrine, which provides that public spaces should be used for public purposes.
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The state also named the stretch of I-55 after civil rights activist Rosa Parks, according to the St.
Alaska is criss-crossed with old mining roads and trails established before the national parks, monuments and wildlife refuges that cover 75% of the vast state.
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