– Doug McConnell

Angel Island Monument by Stacy Geiken

It turns out that I couldn’t join Carl Bidleman and Jim Wirth on the trip to Woodside yesterday. But they did go and had a terrific time with Jamis MacNiven at Buck’s Restaurant, and we’ll have a video in this spot soon that depicts their journey.

They also interviewed on video environmental blogger Rhett Butler about his good work and his love of Big Basin State Park near Santa Cruz, California. Rhett’s video will be posted here soon as well. About Big Basin, by the way, it was California’s first state park established in 1902 in large part to protect its threatened old growth redwood forest. In the 105 years since, California’s state park system has grown dramatically. We’ve included stories about quite a few of the state parks already on OpenRoad.TV with more to come. Here’s a sampling of what we have: Hearst Castle and Ranch and Big Sur’s Molera State Park.

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