CA State Parks Releases Special Edition Newsletter Focused on MPAs

This fall, the California State Parks Interpretive Newsletter released a special edition focused totally on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)!

We encourage anyone interested in learning about California’s network of 124 MPAs check out this newsletter to learn about MPAs, topics include:

  • MPA FAQs: An Introduction to California’s Marine Protected Areas

  • California State Parks’ MPA Outreach and Education Project

  • Understanding California’s Marine Protected Area Program California’s Tapestry, Interview with Skip Lowry: An Indigenous Perspective

  • MPA Collaborative: Fostering local stewardship and management of MPAs

  • WILDCOAST: MPA Enforcement & Compliance

  • Snapshot Cal Coast: Introducing the Bio‐Blitz!

  • MPA Watch: Community Science for Stewardship of Ocean Resources

  • Join the Respect Wildlife Campaign!

  • Are You Sea Otter Savvy?

  • Becoming a Community Scientist with EAC

  • Explore My MPA: Educational Programs with WILDCOAST

  • Exploring the Deep with Marine Applied Research & Exploration (MARE)

  • Seeing More with Seamore

  • Dive into Point Lobos

  • Monitoring MPAs with Reef Check California

  • SOS: Saving Our Seals and other marine mammals

  • Integrating Tech into MPA Interpretation

  • Resources for Interpreters

 

 

In addition to providing outstanding information about the California MPA Network, we are proud to report that our 2019 Summer Coastal Advocate Intern, Ashley Wemp, is featured as a co-editor. Following Ashley’s internship with EAC she joined the California State Parks team at Seacliff Beach in Santa Cruz. Ashley continues her work to promote and protect MPAs with State Parks and with the MPA Collaborative Network.