Gov. Gavin Newsom announces three new state parks, including one along Fresno-Madera County line

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Governor Newsom toured Sycamore Island successful Madera County connected Wednesday, which is portion of 1 of California's adjacent authorities parks.

"We're celebrating a consciousness of belonging," Governor Newsom said.

This Earth Day, the authorities parkland strategy is acceptable to adhd Dust Bowl Camp successful Kern County and Feather River Park successful Yuba County, on with the Parkway connected the Madera-Fresno County line.

"We were, frankly, dealing with the existing abstraction and deferred maintenance, and this changeless dialectic that information that we shouldn't beryllium focused connected expansion," Newsom said. "'We gotta, actually, cleanable up what we've got,' and we were stuck connected that for decades and decades and decades."

It is the biggest parkland enlargement successful years.

"Governor, determination person been fiscal cuts to the parkland strategy implicit the years, projected cuts, arsenic well. How bash you money this expansion?" Action News asked.

"This is funded done existing resources and past the ongoing efforts to proceed to get much philanthropic support," Newsom said.

The Natural Resources caput aboriginal explained that the caller parks volition not outgo the authorities thing up front.

"They're held by entities that are consenting to transportation [them] to authorities parks," Sec. Wade Crowfoot said. "Over time, obviously, the staffing, etc., volition fig into the wide statewide budget."

Leaders astatine the San Joaquin River Conservancy are anxious to transportation the onshore and accidental they volition commencement the process connected Thursday.

"It could beryllium a authorities parkland wrong the adjacent 2 years," Conservancy CEO Kari Daniska told Action News.

Governor Newsom hopes the caller authorities parkland tin beryllium an outlet for Valley families.

"It's astir taking a heavy breath, and it's astir conscionable letting truthful overmuch of this go," helium said.

Officials volition soon big nationalist meetings to find what features the caller parks could have.

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