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Opinion: Saving California parks

By Karin Klein
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Reports are in that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t going to close 100 state parks or anything like that number. Closing parks isn’t the big moneysaver the governor had expected; the Times editorial page warned him about that in early June.

There also were small towns whose financial lives depend depend on the tourism brought by state monuments or parks.

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The Times will editorialize tomorrow on the reasons why the governor should have thought this out better before donning his parks-Terminator costume.

--Karin Klein

Opinion L.A.
Karin Klein

Karin Klein is a former Los Angeles Times board member who wrote editorials about education, environment, food and science. She was the 2006-07 winner of the Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writers and was a 2012 and 2014 Logan Environmental Journalism fellow and a 2014 Metcalf Environmental Reporting fellow. She is the author of the 2010 book “50 Hikes in Orange County.” Klein attended Wellesley College and UC Berkeley.

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