Sierra State Parks Foundation

Founded in 1974, the Sierra State Parks Foundation, a California Public Benefit Corporation, is the cooperative organization of the California State Parks in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee region. Its mission is to provide critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Truckee State Parks for education, interpretation, restoration and cultural and environmental preservation consistent with the mission of California State Parks.The objectives of this corporation are: to promote the education and interpretive activities of the State Park System, principally in the Sierra District; to produceand make available to park visitors, by sale or free distribution, suitable interpretive and educational literature and materials, including books, maps, pamphlets, visuals, and recordings; to acquire and display materials or objects pertaining to the cultural history or natural history of the area for the purpose of adding them to the interpretive collections of the State Park System;