Thanks for your work, California Audubon! You can find tricolored blackbirds at Tesla Park. To help save this wonderful species in decline, we need to #SaveTeslaPark. https://ca.audubon.org/news/177000-tricolored-blackbirds-saved-2020
A major unavoidable environmental impact of opening Tesla Park to off-highway vehicle recreation is air pollution. With air quality already hit hard by climate change & wildfires, this is the wrong use for public land.
It’s no mystery why Golden Eagles & Tule Elk frequent Tesla Park but not neighboring Carnegie SVRA. Off-highway vehicles damage habitats, vegetation & wildlife. Time to protect this biodiversity hotspot!
“Researchers have found that habitat destruction & biodiversity loss are making it easier for [viruses like Covid-19] to spread from animals to humans.” Tesla is a top CA biodiversity hotspot. Don’t let it be destroyed. (Sierra Club quote tweet) #SaveTeslaPark https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2020-05-21/boiling-point-save-natural-world-protect-30-percent-earth-boiling-point
A UC Berkeley study in The Royal Society found that to protect biodiversity, the North Diablo Range should be a top conservation priority for CA. Governor Newsom can #SaveTeslaPark with the stroke of a pen! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2017.0397
Tesla Park is a Golden Eagle nesting and foraging area, designated an Audubon Society Important Bird Area.