Updated Bioassessment reconfirms Tesla’s irreplaceable natural resources requiring protection as a State Reserve
The comprehensive report, Reserve Classification of California State Parks Alameda-Tesla Property, Alameda County, California based on an Assessment of Biological Resources and the Effects of Recreational Activities on those Resources was updated September 1, 2025. The report documents why Tesla is not just like any other place and cannot just be replaced or substituted with other land.
Some Key Findings:
- Currently there are 55 special-status plants and animals, 45 special-status (rare) plants, with an additional 56 local watchlist plants detected, and 9 sensitive natural communities.
- Tesla’s unique location at the transition between biotic zones from the drier Central Valley to the wetter Bay Area has species that exist at the outmost extent of their range.
- Tesla spans a Critical Linkage Habitat Corridor along the Diablo Range allowing for wildlife and plant movement essential to gene flow and protecting biodiversity.
- Tesla has the large Corral Hollow Creek watershed which feeds its biodiversity.
- Tesla’s topography and physical characters. plus its location. provide vital refugia for wildlife and plants during climate change.
These reasons and more are why the best classification option available to protect Tesla’s 3,100-acres of irreplaceable biodiversity and broad ecosystem values is for the California Department of Parks and Recreation Commission to classify Tesla as a State Reserve
Now the challenge is to get State Parks to recognize this irrefutable evidence, and act to establish Tesla as the Hismet Warep State Reserve.
