California's newest state park, located 80 miles east of San Francisco, has an opening date. After a decade of planning and $40 million in funding, Dos Rios State Park in the San Joaquin Valley will open to the public on June 12, Gov. Gavin Newsom and California State Parks announced Monday. The 1,600-acre property, nestled between the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers, around eight miles from Modesto, is the largest public-private floodplain restoration project in the state. It's also the first...
The 1,600-acre (648-hectare) Dos Rios tract in the state's crop-rich Central Valley is set to open June 12 as California's 281st state park.
Ali Manzo, a Central Valley native and California State Parks interpreter, said the new park will help bring people together and allow them to develop a deeper respect for nature.
By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will open its first new state park in a decade this summer. The Dos Rios tract in the state’s Central Valley is set to open in June. Gov. Gavin Newsom made the announcement Monday. The land will become California’s 281st state park. The
California announces first new state park in a decade and sets climate goals for natural lands
By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — California will open its first new state park in a decade this summer, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state officials announced Monday, as the state sets targets for cutting planet-warming emissions on natural lands. The 1,600-acre (648-hectare) Dos Rios tract in the state’s crop-rich Central
Craig N. Ross Jr., 47, snatched the nine-year-old girl, who is not being named, during her camping trip to Moreau Lake State Park in New York near Saratoga Springs on September 30.
(FOX40.COM) -- California's newest state park, which is located near Modesto, was given a special dedication ceremony on Monday with Governor Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Since 2012, River Partners, the Tuolumne River Trust and many other organizations have led the restoration of Dos Rios Ranch Preserve near the confluence of the San []
On June 12, California will open its first new state park in nearly a decade, setting aside 1,600 acres near the confluence of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers in the San Joaquin Valley. The park will give visitors a glimpse of what the valley's waterways were like before the arrival of agriculture, but it will be a while before the site offers many activities. Or has a name. The site is known as Dos Rios, but state officials have yet to officially name it. It sits eight miles west of...
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BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) — A man was sentenced Wednesday to 47 years to life in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a state park in upstate New York last year. Craig N. Ross Jr. pleaded guilty in February to taking the girl in September from a campground […]
A man was sentenced Wednesday to 47 years to life in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a state park in upstate New York last year