Our letter to the editor responding to a recent wonderful story in the Bee about Gold Rush Park, was published today.
Here is our letter and a link to the story.
Exciting river plans
Re "Park plan thinks big," June 6: This is the most exciting riverside park idea since the American River Parkway, and the marriage with it at the confluence of our two rivers will create one of the nation's truly great parks, forming the pendant of a golden necklace of greenways, parks and trails along the rivers, through the trees and into the deep canyons from which so much gold once came.
In the late 1800s, Fredrick Law Olmstead Sr. created the Emerald Necklace, a world-renowned linking of green space, parks and trails along the Charles River in Boston. It took almost 20 years to complete. In roughly the same amount of time, we may have a golden necklace linking our river communities in another beautiful marriage of land and water a continent away.
This is a wonderful and visionary plan for Sacramento.
- David H. Lukenbill, Sacramento
Senior Policy Director, American River Parkway Preservation Society
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/14264425p-15077090c.html
