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Nearly every state park in the Bay Area - from the towering redwoods at Big Basin to Angel Island, Mount Tamalpais to Mount Diablo and every state beach from
Año Nuevo in San Mateo County to Big Sur - would close as part of budget cuts proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In all, 220 of California's 279 state parks, about 80 percent, would be padlocked starting as soon as Labor Day, under details of a historic closing plan released Thursday night by the state parks department.
"We've never been in as serious a predicament as we are facing right now. It is potentially devastating," said state parks spokesman Roy
Stearns.
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