The East Bay Chapter of the California Native Plant Society’s Corral Hollow Botanical Priority Protection Area overlays most of Tesla, highlighting Tesla’s botanical biodiversity. Thus far, 45 special status (rare) plants have been found on Tesla, with 74 more that are on the locally rare watchlist. One more reason why Tesla should be classified as a Reserve. Email the California…
Summer, Winter, Spring or Fall – Tesla is special. Email the California State Park and Recreation Commission [email protected] calling in them to classify Tesla as a State Reserve so that this land can be protected forever.
Among Tesla’s many vital biological functions is that a Critical Linkage Habitat Corridor runs through it, with Tesla as the narrow chokepoint. Preventing fragmentation and damage to habitats and movement corridors for plants and wildlife is essential to preserve biodiversity. Protecting Tesla from higher intensity uses and associated facilities development is essential to preserving this critical habitat corridor which supports…
There are so many reasons to establish Tesla as a Reserve: Help us protect Tesla forever by establishing Tesla as a Reserve. Email State Parks and the State Park and Recreation Commission calling on them to classify Tesla as a Reserve. Click for more information.
Local Indigenous leaders working to protect Tesla as Reserve have given it the name Hismet Warep Horsetka, meaning Sacred Earth in Harmony in the Chochenyo language of the Ohlone people of the East Bay. And that is what Tesla is – Sacred Earth. Help us keep it that way and establish Tesla as a Reserve. You can help by emailing…
Wildflower season is starting in Tesla. Rains are good for the land. (photos from 2023)