Preserving Tesla Park with no motorized recreation protects nature and our planet. With accelerated climate change we have an added duty to protect Tesla’s biodiversity, not expand OHV use which generates carbon emissions and air pollution. https://lat.ms/2Es9rGT
There’s overwhelming support for Tesla preservation from local agencies like the County of Alameda, City of Livermore and East Bay Regional Park District. How can State Parks ignore local conservation objectives?
State Parks OHMRV Division and Carnegie SVRA is not primarily funded by OHV users. Its main funding is from State gas tax transfers, most of which have nothing to do with OHV recreation. All Californians driving to a nature park or an SUV subsidize the OHV program.
The northern Diablo Range where Tesla is located is a very top conservation priority for the entire state according to a 2018 UC Berkeley study. It’s not the right place for damaging off-road recreation. #saveteslapark
The UN’s report of dramatic decline in species is more reason why our State Parks cannot allow Tesla’s extraordinary biodiversity to be destroyed by damaging OHV recreation. #savetslapark https://n.pr/3hC4YPu
Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis) is endemic in the Corral Hollow area where Tesla’s located. UCB Professor, John Taylor’s 2016 warning of increased health risks of this extremely serious fungal disease from dust-generating OHV recreation was dismissed by State Parks. https://teslapark.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Carnegie_DEIR_Response_Taylor_J_r_20160204.pdf