Big Basin State Park Regenerates Itself

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Aug 11, 2023 | All Talk, Climate Change, Local, Outdoors, Program, Rachel Anne Goodman, Santa Cruz History, Science, Science & Nature, Talk of the Bay | 0

Talk of the Bay from KSQD

Big Basin State Park Regenerates Itself

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Big Basin State Park is the oldest state park in California and also the most devastated by the CZU Fire that swept through in 2020. In this show, we hear from Bonny Hawley, Executive Director of the Friends of the Santa Cruz State Parks, and Erin Dunning, State Park Interpreter, about the history and current state of this iconic and beloved redwood park.

Erin Dunning, Park Interpreter

Bonny Hawley, Executive Director, Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks

Regrowth of the redwood forest

A CZU fire survivor

About The Author

Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.