If approved, Governor Schwarzenegger's new budget plan will close at least 80% of California's entire state park system. Beginning July 1st, the Governor will cut the parks core funding in half and then eliminate all core funding in 12 months. Without this money, there will be no choice but to close the majority of our park system. Our featured guests include: Jerry Emory - CA State Parks Foundation; Gwenn Marie - Borrego Springs Chamber of Commerce; Linda Tandle & Ray Mouton - Anza-Borrego Foundation; Mike Menghini - Julian Chamber of Commerce; Nanci Sikes - Tuolumne County Visitors Bureau; and more.

Join hosts Nancy & Lisa (BigBlendMagazine.com editors) and their special guest co-host Craig C. Downer - ecologist, biologist & naturalist; and featured guests: Karen Taschek – Author of ‘Hanging with Bats: Ecobats, Vampires, and Movie Stars’; Anna Fiedler - Ph.D student at MSU in Doug Landis’ Invasive Species Ecology & Biological Control Lab; Kelly Stettner - Black River Action Team in Vermont; and Christine Kirk -Director of the Outdoor Education Center in Southern California.

Join hosts Nancy J. Reid & Lisa D. Smith (Editors of BigBlendMagazine.com) for a special episode focusing on Wild Horses & Burros, and Nature Horse Care. Craig C. Downwer (Biologist, Ecologist & Wild Horse & Burro Activist) will join as a special co-host again. Special guests include Deanne Stillman - Author of 'Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West'; Kathleen Hayden & Cindy McDonald -advocates for the Wild Horses in Coyote Canyon, CA; Karen Pomroy – Equine Voices, AZ; and Cheryl Henderson – Oregon School of Natural Hoof Care.

Featured Guests Special Co-host Craig C. Downer – Author, Ecologist & Naturalist and Wild Horse Activist; Dr. David Gillette – Colbert Curator of Paleontology, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff; Ronald J. Tipton, Senior Vice President of Programs from the National Parks Conservation Association; J. Dietrich "Diet" Stroeh – Water Management & Conservation; Lorenz Schilling - President Director/Chairperson for The Deconstruction & Building Materials ReUse Network, Inc.; and Robin Avery - environmentally conscious singer/songwriter.

Special Co-host Craig C. Downer – Author, Ecologist & Naturalist; Dale Anderson – Project Survival’s Cat Haven; Trefoni M. Rizzi - Author of ‘Teddy's Travels - America's National Parks’; Karen Pomroy – Founder of Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary; Stephanie Wilson - The Arboretum at Flagstaff; Allen W. Nyhuis and Jon Wassner – Co-authors of ‘America's Best Zoos: A Travel Guide for Fans & Families’