California League of Parks Association Records

Series

Identifier: RG-02

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of documents and correspondence pertaining to CALPA's administration, leadership, advocacy, history, annual conference and events. Additional materials include reports, newsletters, and educational material related to California State Parks and CALPA member organizations.

Dates

1992 - 2014

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Presidio Research Center. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Copyright restrictions also apply to digital facsimiles of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Biographical / Historical

The California League of Parks Associations (CALPA) is a coalition of a non-profit coperating associations affiliated with specific State Park sites in California.

The California State Parks Cooperating Program began in 1971, with the founding of the League of California State Parks Non-Profit Organizations, shortly after. The Program was partly founded on the National Park Service model, which established the Yosemite Natural History Association in the 1920s, and 'Public Law 633', enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1946. The Program was originally designed to support and further the interpretive and education activities of the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), together with raising funds for the State Park System.

Formally established in 1983 as California League of Park Associations, CALPA has since served as the umbrella for organizations working to support the California State Parks system and its 280 individual park sites in improving access to protected lands and waters, and sharing resources and knowledge about park management with its memebr organizations. The first annual conference was held in 1984.

Extent

2 boxes

5 Optical Disks

4 Optical Disks : Magnetic (floppy) disks

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The collection includes institutional records created by the California League of Parks Associations (CALPA) from 1992 to 2014. CALPA was established in 1983 to facilitate communication between non-profit park associations and the state Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR). The majority of materials in this collection are documents and correspondence related to CALPA's administration, leadership, membership, advocacy, history, annual conferences and events. Additional materials include conference photos, newsletters and publications.

Arrangement

The collection is organized in nine series, with folders organized chronologically within each series.

Bibliography

Janice B. Pitts, California League of Park Associations: The First Twenty Years 1983-2003 (M.A. Thesis, California State University, Sacramento, 2003);