Abalone Cook-Off & Festival 2008
Saturday, October 4

Location: Noyo Harbor
South Harbor Dr,
Fort Bragg

Advanced Tickets (Active members only, or Join MAPA)

Cook’s Information and Application Form

Vendor Information and Application Form

Abalone Cook-Off & Festival 2007

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Welcome to Mendocino Area California State Parks.  Our Parks include some of the finest ocean views, Redwood groves, beaches, ocean bluffs, lake shore, trails, and campgrounds in the world.

Mendocino Area Parks Association (MAPA) is a non-profit cooperating association formed to benefit the State Parks in the Mendocino District. Supported by volunteers, MAPA's goals include providing top-quality educational activities, interpretive programs and exhibits in our local state parks. MAPA also assists with the Visitor Centers in six State Parks, publishes and sells publications on local natural and cultural history, and consistently raises money to "keep things local" and improve the park experiences for visitors, local residents, and the abundant flora and fauna that thrive along the magnificent Mendocino Coast.

Whether for a local school child or an International traveler, MAPA strives to make each program enjoyable and interesting as well as educational, stressing the vital interconnection of all life and the encouragement of personal stewardship.

"All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We did not weave the web of life. We are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves."
- Ted Perry, attributed to Chief Seattle

MAPA helps to preserve our parklands and cultural history through:

• MAPA Facts: MAPA’s Interpretive programs reach more than 5000 school children and adults each year   MAPA’s visitor center and museums impact over 1/2 million people each year.  Stop by a Visitor Center next time you’re in one of our State Parks.

  Park Interpreters (Experts who interpret the language of nature to humans)
• Nature Programs, Campfire programs and Jr. Rangers
• School Nature programs and Field Trips
• Greenwood/Elk Visitor Center - Logging History
• Ford House State Park Visitor Center, Mendocino Headlands State Park/ Logging History
• Hendy Woods State Park Visitor Center - Nature Exhibits
• MacKerricher State Park Visitor Center - Nature Exhibits
• Van Damme State Park Visitor Center - Underwater-scene Diorama
• Pine Grove
• Gray Whale Reconstructed Skeleton Exhibit, MacKerricher State Park
• Volunteer Docent Councils at various District State Parks
• Sponsor of Bo-Cah Ama, the Docent Council planning a Pomo Demonstration Village and museum/visitor center.
• Permanent and seasonal exhibits at District State Parks
• Educational publications, materials and equipment.

YOU can make a difference!

Your participation in the many MAPA programs and events makes a positive influence on the quality of our natural and cultural history programs in our local state parks, which, in turn, makes a positive impact on our parklands: Junior Rangers; Campfire Programs; Nature Walks/Talks; School Field Trips; In-school Programs; Living History Programs; Park Interpreters; Volunteer/Docent Councils and Trainings; Natural and Cultural History Seminars; Exhibits; Interpretive Trail Signage; and six Museums/Visitor Centers.