On August 19, more about
2015 there was a wildfire that burned over much of the Tesla park land from near Livermore to Carnegie SVRA. We are thankful there were no injuries or major property loss.
While the immediate impact of a fire on the natural landscape is shocking, stomach
we now understand that wildfires are part of natural ecological processes that have helped shape Tesla into such a biologically rich wild land. Tesla will regenerate and flourish again. In fact some vegetation and rare plants benefit from fire, so it may come back with even more abundance. The fire also provides an opportunity to study its impacts on rare plants and sensitive habitats. Tesla’s biological diversity is the perfect classroom for such research.
It would be careless to try to use the fire as justification to open Tesla to OHV use. In fact Tesla needs our protection all the more during this fragile period of regrowth.
Tesla exists beyond the moment, and its life cycle provides part of the unique wonder that we must permanently preserve for future generations. Nothing has changed – now there are just more reasons why we need to Save Tesla Park.
On August 19, hospital
2015 there was a wildfire that burned over much of the Tesla park land from near Livermore to Carnegie SVRA. We are thankful there were no injuries or major property loss.
While the immediate impact of a fire on the natural landscape is shocking, patient
we now understand that wildfires are part of natural ecological processes that have helped shape Tesla into such a biologically rich wild land. Tesla will regenerate and flourish again. In fact some vegetation and rare plants benefit from fire, so it may come back with even more abundance. The fire is also an opportunity to study the impacts of fire on rare plants and sensitive habitats. Tesla’s biological diversity is the perfect classroom for such research.
It would be careless to try to use the fire as justification to open Tesla to OHV use. In fact Tesla needs our protection all the more during this fragile period of regrowth.
Tesla exists beyond the moment, and its life cycle provides part of the unique wonder that we must permanently preserve for future generations. Nothing has changed – now there are just more reasons why we need to Save Tesla Park.
On August 19, information pills
2015 there was a wildfire that burned over much of the Tesla park land from near Livermore to Carnegie SVRA. We are thankful there were no injuries or major property loss.
While the immediate impact of a fire on the natural landscape is shocking, we now understand that wildfires are part of natural ecological processes that have helped shape Tesla into such a biologically rich wild land. Tesla will regenerate and flourish again. In fact some vegetation and rare plants benefit from fire, so it may come back with even more abundance. The fire also provides an opportunity to study its impacts on rare plants and sensitive habitats. Tesla’s biological diversity is the perfect classroom for such research.
It would be reckless to try to use the fire as justification to open Tesla to OHV use or facilitate the plan to open Tesla to OHV use. In fact Tesla needs our protection all the more during this fragile period of regrowth.
Tesla exists beyond the moment, and its life cycle provides part of the unique wonder that we must permanently preserve for future generations. Nothing has changed – now there are just more reasons why we need to Save Tesla Park.
On August 19, ophthalmologist
2015 there was a wildfire that burned over much of the Tesla park land from near Livermore to Carnegie SVRA. We are thankful there were no injuries or major property loss.
While the immediate impact of a fire on the natural landscape is shocking, we now understand that wildfires are part of natural ecological processes that have helped shape Tesla into such a biologically rich wild land. Tesla will regenerate and flourish again. In fact some vegetation and rare plants benefit from fire, so it may come back with even more abundance. The fire also provides an opportunity to study its impacts on rare plants and sensitive habitats. Tesla’s biological diversity is the perfect classroom for such research.
It would be reckless to try to use the fire as justification to open Tesla to OHV use or facilitate the plan to open Tesla to OHV use. In fact Tesla needs our protection all the more during this fragile period of regrowth.
Tesla exists beyond the moment, and its life cycle provides part of the unique wonder that we must permanently preserve for future generations. Nothing has changed – now there are just more reasons why we need to Save Tesla Park.
Following is a list of past News/Updates posts:
- Fight Climate Change
- Court Invalidates EIR
- UC Professors Statement
- Don’t Take Tesla Park Too
- Make Actions Match Words
- Advance Goals to Protect Biodiversity
- Newsom Should Protect Tesla Park
- Local Agencies Will Pay State
- Permanently Preserve Tesla Now
- Stop Pretending
- Times Up
- 30 x 30
- It Is Time
- Failed EIR Attempts
- Court Rules EIR & General Plan Invalid
- Powerful Call to the Governor
- Native American Features
- Follow The Science
- Redesignate Tesla
- Implement Biodiversity Executive Order
- Bay Nature Op Ed
- Save Mount Diablo Colloquium
- Tule Elk & Golden Eagles
- Biodiversity Executive Order
- Return Funds to State Parks
- Critical Linkage Habitat Corridor
- Travesty
- Support From Community Groups
- Educational Site
- Cultural Landscape
- Biodiversity Hotspot
- Mitigation for Destructive Impacts of OHV
- Best Management Practices
- Valley Fever
- Environmental Damage
- Governor’s Biodiversity Executive Order
- Time to Walk the Walk
- Increase Access to Nature
- Win-Win
- 28 Locally Rare Plant Species
- Fight Climate Change and Expand Motorized Recreation?
- Access For All NOT Access For All Uses
- Top 3 Priorities
- 30 x 30
- 42 Special Status Species
- Preserve Nature for Underserved Communities
- Demand for Nature Areas Increases
- Tesla Is Not The Place
- Expand OHV As We Push To Reduce Carbon Emissions?
- Fighting Climate Change
- Overwhelming Local Support
- Gas Tax Transfers
- Top Conservation Priority
- UN Study on Biodiversity
- Valley Fever
- Red Flag Days
- Spare the Air Days
- Tricolored Blackbirds
- Air Pollution & Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation
- Golden Eagles & Tule Elk
- 30 By 30
- UC Berkeley Study
- Golden Eagle Nesting Area
- UC Berkeley Study Shows Tesla a Conservation Priority
- Tesla Park Should Not Be Sacrificed
- What is Tesla Park?
- Historical Places
- Home to 42 Special Status Species
- Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog
- 1956 East Bay Regional Park District Plan
- Off-Highway Vehicles Environmental Damage
- Fire at Carnegie SVRA
- Help Build Support for Tesla
- We will Save Tesla Park
- AB 1086 vetoed- Fight to Save Tesla Continues!
- Ask Governor to sign AB 1086 into law
- AB 1086 (Bauer-Kahan) Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area bill PASSED by Legislature
- Contact Appropriations Committee to support SB 767
- Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee approves SB 767
- Next SB 767 Hearing – July 3, 2019 in Accountability and Administrative Review Committee
- SB 767 passes Assembly WPW Committee
- SB 767 Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee Hearing Tuesday, June 18, 2019
- SB 767 passes Senate
- SB 767 passes out of Senate Committees to Floor Vote
- SB 767 Passes Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee
- Support SB 767 – Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area
- Work to Save Tesla Park Continues – Remember Tesla in year-end Donations
- SB 1316 falters in Assembly, but fight to Save Tesla Park continues
- Support Tesla at OAS Annual Potluck June 5
- SB 1316 passes the Senate
- Support SB 1316 – Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area
- More Legislators Support Tesla Preservation Proposal
- Friends drops support for SB 249
- SB 249 Passes Assembly Committee
- Contact your State Senator to Support SB 249
- State studies document OHV getting excess fuel taxes
- Senator Glazer and Assembly Member Baker support Tesla Preservation Proposal
- Scientist Consensus Statement on Tesla Preservation
- Tesla Park First Proposed in 1956!
- Help Protect Tesla and Reform the Off-Highway Vehicle Program
- Support SB 249 at Senate Transportation and Housing Committee Hearing
- Support SB 249
- Keep Tesla Beautiful – NO OHV Use
- We need your help! – DONATE to Support Legal Costs to Save Tesla Park
- FRIENDS FILES LAWSUIT TO PROTECT TESLA FROM CARNEGIE EXPANSION
- Fight to Save Tesla Park Continues
- Mark your Calendars for October 21, 2016 Tesla Hearing in Sacramento
- Email NOW to SAVE Tesla Park
- Ask Baker ad Glazer to support Tesla
- Upcoming Tesla Events
- Help Tesla – attend ‘Pelican Dreams’ Fundraiser May 22, 2016
- OHMVR Commission Hearing on CSVRA/Tesla General Plan and EIR expected in Summer
- Recap of 2/5/16 OHMVR Hearing on CSVRA Final Draft EIR
- Our work for the last several years has been building for this important hearing!
- Carnegie Final EIR Delayed to Early 2016
- Email your State Legislator
- DONATE Today to Help SAVE Tesla Park
- Tule Elk still on Tesla
- California Native Grassland Association joins work to Save Tesla
- Tesla Fire
- What’s next?
- Thank you Friends of Tesla Park!
- Alameda County and City of Livermore support Tesla Preservation
- Email your Comments by June 29, 2015 Deadline!
- CSVRA Public Comment Period Extended to June 29, 2015
- CSVRA Releases Preliminary General Plan and EIR for Public Review – submit comments by June 8, 2015 deadline
- CSVRA Releases Preliminary General Plan and EIR for Public Review
- Online Donations Now Available
- Tule Elk Range on Tesla
- Carnegie SVRA delays release of Draft EIR and General Plan to early 2015
- DEIR Release Expected in “Fall 2014”
- Tesla Road Residents support preservation
- Tesla Buckeye
- Support grows to preserve Tesla
- Support for Preserving Tesla Keeps Growing
- Non-Motorized Nature Parks in highest demand
- Carnegie SVRA Draft EIR delayed to Fall 2014
- Support for Tesla Preservation Grows
- Beautiful Tesla
- Watch for email updates – DEIR now expected in Spring 2014
- A Livermore resident’s call to SAVE Tesla Park
- Say NO to OHV Use in Tesla – December 13, 2013 comment deadline
- ACTION ALERT – Attend November 12 Public Meeting to SAVE Tesla Park
- EBRPD Keeps Tesla in Master Plan
- Historic Harrisville part of Tesla Park
- Tell State Parks: no OHVs in Tesla Park
- Action Alert – Comment by July 15, 2013
- OHMVR announces June 10 workshop on DEIR Alternatives
- Local Legislators support protection of Tesla Park
- Update – Carnegie SVRA General Plan and EIR
- Tesla Park Up Close
- What do you want for Tesla Park?
- Tesla Park can be preserved under OHMVR Statute
- Donate to SAVE Tesla Park
- Wild Tesla
- How can Carnegie SVRA get away with it?
- Beautiful Tesla
- Carnegie SVRA/Tesla Park EIR update
- More Friends join to save Tesla Park
- The Truth About OHMVR Divi$ion Funding
- Fall in Tesla Park
- Tesla Park Critical Habitat Corridor
- Tesla paleontology research site
- Bio-diversity is part of Tesla Park’s lure
- NOP Comment Deadline extended to July 11, 2012
- Biologically rich Tesla Park requires protection
- The Independent backs saving Tesla Park
- The TRUTH about OHMVR Divi$ion funding
- NOP Comment Deadline – June 11, 2012
- State launches General Plan/EIR process
- Cultural Wonders
- Treadwell House connection to Tesla Park
- Natural Wonders
- On the Spanish Trail
- Anza Trail near Tesla Park
- Tesla in Botanical Priority Protection Area
- Native Americans left their mark on Tesla
- Tesla historic resources need protection
- Join Us!
- Friends Web Site launched
Back to Resources
Following is a list of past News/Updates posts:
- Fight Climate Change
- Court Invalidates EIR
- UC Professors Statement
- Don’t Take Tesla Park Too
- Make Actions Match Words
- Advance Goals to Protect Biodiversity
- Newsom Should Protect Tesla Park
- Local Agencies Will Pay State
- Permanently Preserve Tesla Now
- Stop Pretending
- Times Up
- 30 x 30
- It Is Time
- Failed EIR Attempts
- Court Rules EIR & General Plan Invalid
- Powerful Call to the Governor
- Native American Features
- Follow The Science
- Redesignate Tesla
- Implement Biodiversity Executive Order
- Bay Nature Op Ed
- Save Mount Diablo Colloquium
- Tule Elk & Golden Eagles
- Biodiversity Executive Order
- Return Funds to State Parks
- Critical Linkage Habitat Corridor
- Travesty
- Support From Community Groups
- Educational Site
- Cultural Landscape
- Biodiversity Hotspot
- Mitigation for Destructive Impacts of OHV
- Best Management Practices
- Valley Fever
- Environmental Damage
- Governor’s Biodiversity Executive Order
- Time to Walk the Walk
- Increase Access to Nature
- Win-Win
- 28 Locally Rare Plant Species
- Fight Climate Change and Expand Motorized Recreation?
- Access For All NOT Access For All Uses
- Top 3 Priorities
- 30 x 30
- 42 Special Status Species
- Preserve Nature for Underserved Communities
- Demand for Nature Areas Increases
- Tesla Is Not The Place
- Expand OHV As We Push To Reduce Carbon Emissions?
- Fighting Climate Change
- Overwhelming Local Support
- Gas Tax Transfers
- Top Conservation Priority
- UN Study on Biodiversity
- Valley Fever
- Red Flag Days
- Spare the Air Days
- Tricolored Blackbirds
- Air Pollution & Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation
- Golden Eagles & Tule Elk
- 30 By 30
- UC Berkeley Study
- Golden Eagle Nesting Area
- UC Berkeley Study Shows Tesla a Conservation Priority
- Tesla Park Should Not Be Sacrificed
- What is Tesla Park?
- Historical Places
- Home to 42 Special Status Species
- Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog
- 1956 East Bay Regional Park District Plan
- Off-Highway Vehicles Environmental Damage
- Fire at Carnegie SVRA
- Help Build Support for Tesla
- We will Save Tesla Park
- AB 1086 vetoed- Fight to Save Tesla Continues!
- Ask Governor to sign AB 1086 into law
- AB 1086 (Bauer-Kahan) Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area bill PASSED by Legislature
- Contact Appropriations Committee to support SB 767
- Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee approves SB 767
- Next SB 767 Hearing – July 3, 2019 in Accountability and Administrative Review Committee
- SB 767 passes Assembly WPW Committee
- SB 767 Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee Hearing Tuesday, June 18, 2019
- SB 767 passes Senate
- SB 767 passes out of Senate Committees to Floor Vote
- SB 767 Passes Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee
- Support SB 767 – Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area
- Work to Save Tesla Park Continues – Remember Tesla in year-end Donations
- SB 1316 falters in Assembly, but fight to Save Tesla Park continues
- Support Tesla at OAS Annual Potluck June 5
- SB 1316 passes the Senate
- Support SB 1316 – Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area
- More Legislators Support Tesla Preservation Proposal
- Friends drops support for SB 249
- SB 249 Passes Assembly Committee
- Contact your State Senator to Support SB 249
- State studies document OHV getting excess fuel taxes
- Senator Glazer and Assembly Member Baker support Tesla Preservation Proposal
- Scientist Consensus Statement on Tesla Preservation
- Tesla Park First Proposed in 1956!
- Help Protect Tesla and Reform the Off-Highway Vehicle Program
- Support SB 249 at Senate Transportation and Housing Committee Hearing
- Support SB 249
- Keep Tesla Beautiful – NO OHV Use
- We need your help! – DONATE to Support Legal Costs to Save Tesla Park
- FRIENDS FILES LAWSUIT TO PROTECT TESLA FROM CARNEGIE EXPANSION
- Fight to Save Tesla Park Continues
- Mark your Calendars for October 21, 2016 Tesla Hearing in Sacramento
- Email NOW to SAVE Tesla Park
- Ask Baker ad Glazer to support Tesla
- Upcoming Tesla Events
- Help Tesla – attend ‘Pelican Dreams’ Fundraiser May 22, 2016
- OHMVR Commission Hearing on CSVRA/Tesla General Plan and EIR expected in Summer
- Recap of 2/5/16 OHMVR Hearing on CSVRA Final Draft EIR
- Our work for the last several years has been building for this important hearing!
- Carnegie Final EIR Delayed to Early 2016
- Email your State Legislator
- DONATE Today to Help SAVE Tesla Park
- Tule Elk still on Tesla
- California Native Grassland Association joins work to Save Tesla
- Tesla Fire
- What’s next?
- Thank you Friends of Tesla Park!
- Alameda County and City of Livermore support Tesla Preservation
- Email your Comments by June 29, 2015 Deadline!
- CSVRA Public Comment Period Extended to June 29, 2015
- CSVRA Releases Preliminary General Plan and EIR for Public Review – submit comments by June 8, 2015 deadline
- CSVRA Releases Preliminary General Plan and EIR for Public Review
- Online Donations Now Available
- Tule Elk Range on Tesla
- Carnegie SVRA delays release of Draft EIR and General Plan to early 2015
- DEIR Release Expected in “Fall 2014”
- Tesla Road Residents support preservation
- Tesla Buckeye
- Support grows to preserve Tesla
- Support for Preserving Tesla Keeps Growing
- Non-Motorized Nature Parks in highest demand
- Carnegie SVRA Draft EIR delayed to Fall 2014
- Support for Tesla Preservation Grows
- Beautiful Tesla
- Watch for email updates – DEIR now expected in Spring 2014
- A Livermore resident’s call to SAVE Tesla Park
- Say NO to OHV Use in Tesla – December 13, 2013 comment deadline
- ACTION ALERT – Attend November 12 Public Meeting to SAVE Tesla Park
- EBRPD Keeps Tesla in Master Plan
- Historic Harrisville part of Tesla Park
- Tell State Parks: no OHVs in Tesla Park
- Action Alert – Comment by July 15, 2013
- OHMVR announces June 10 workshop on DEIR Alternatives
- Local Legislators support protection of Tesla Park
- Update – Carnegie SVRA General Plan and EIR
- Tesla Park Up Close
- What do you want for Tesla Park?
- Tesla Park can be preserved under OHMVR Statute
- Donate to SAVE Tesla Park
- Wild Tesla
- How can Carnegie SVRA get away with it?
- Beautiful Tesla
- Carnegie SVRA/Tesla Park EIR update
- More Friends join to save Tesla Park
- The Truth About OHMVR Divi$ion Funding
- Fall in Tesla Park
- Tesla Park Critical Habitat Corridor
- Tesla paleontology research site
- Bio-diversity is part of Tesla Park’s lure
- NOP Comment Deadline extended to July 11, 2012
- Biologically rich Tesla Park requires protection
- The Independent backs saving Tesla Park
- The TRUTH about OHMVR Divi$ion funding
- NOP Comment Deadline – June 11, 2012
- State launches General Plan/EIR process
- Cultural Wonders
- Treadwell House connection to Tesla Park
- Natural Wonders
- On the Spanish Trail
- Anza Trail near Tesla Park
- Tesla in Botanical Priority Protection Area
- Native Americans left their mark on Tesla
- Tesla historic resources need protection
- Join Us!
- Friends Web Site launched
Back to Resources
Following is a list of past News/Updates posts:
- Fight Climate Change
- Court Invalidates EIR
- UC Professors Statement
- Don’t Take Tesla Park Too
- Make Actions Match Words
- Advance Goals to Protect Biodiversity
- Newsom Should Protect Tesla Park
- Local Agencies Will Pay State
- Permanently Preserve Tesla Now
- Stop Pretending
- Times Up
- 30 x 30
- It Is Time
- Failed EIR Attempts
- Court Rules EIR & General Plan Invalid
- Powerful Call to the Governor
- Native American Features
- Follow The Science
- Redesignate Tesla
- Implement Biodiversity Executive Order
- Bay Nature Op Ed
- Save Mount Diablo Colloquium
- Tule Elk & Golden Eagles
- Biodiversity Executive Order
- Return Funds to State Parks
- Critical Linkage Habitat Corridor
- Travesty
- Support From Community Groups
- Educational Site
- Cultural Landscape
- Biodiversity Hotspot
- Mitigation for Destructive Impacts of OHV
- Best Management Practices
- Valley Fever
- Environmental Damage
- Governor’s Biodiversity Executive Order
- Time to Walk the Walk
- Increase Access to Nature
- Win-Win
- 28 Locally Rare Plant Species
- Fight Climate Change and Expand Motorized Recreation?
- Access For All NOT Access For All Uses
- Top 3 Priorities
- 30 x 30
- 42 Special Status Species
- Preserve Nature for Underserved Communities
- Demand for Nature Areas Increases
- Tesla Is Not The Place
- Expand OHV As We Push To Reduce Carbon Emissions?
- Fighting Climate Change
- Overwhelming Local Support
- Gas Tax Transfers
- Top Conservation Priority
- UN Study on Biodiversity
- Valley Fever
- Red Flag Days
- Spare the Air Days
- Tricolored Blackbirds
- Air Pollution & Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation
- Golden Eagles & Tule Elk
- 30 By 30
- UC Berkeley Study
- Golden Eagle Nesting Area
- UC Berkeley Study Shows Tesla a Conservation Priority
- Tesla Park Should Not Be Sacrificed
- What is Tesla Park?
- Historical Places
- Home to 42 Special Status Species
- Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog
- 1956 East Bay Regional Park District Plan
- Off-Highway Vehicles Environmental Damage
- Fire at Carnegie SVRA
- Help Build Support for Tesla
- We will Save Tesla Park
- AB 1086 vetoed- Fight to Save Tesla Continues!
- Ask Governor to sign AB 1086 into law
- AB 1086 (Bauer-Kahan) Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area bill PASSED by Legislature
- Contact Appropriations Committee to support SB 767
- Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee approves SB 767
- Next SB 767 Hearing – July 3, 2019 in Accountability and Administrative Review Committee
- SB 767 passes Assembly WPW Committee
- SB 767 Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee Hearing Tuesday, June 18, 2019
- SB 767 passes Senate
- SB 767 passes out of Senate Committees to Floor Vote
- SB 767 Passes Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee
- Support SB 767 – Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area
- Work to Save Tesla Park Continues – Remember Tesla in year-end Donations
- SB 1316 falters in Assembly, but fight to Save Tesla Park continues
- Support Tesla at OAS Annual Potluck June 5
- SB 1316 passes the Senate
- Support SB 1316 – Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area
- More Legislators Support Tesla Preservation Proposal
- Friends drops support for SB 249
- SB 249 Passes Assembly Committee
- Contact your State Senator to Support SB 249
- State studies document OHV getting excess fuel taxes
- Senator Glazer and Assembly Member Baker support Tesla Preservation Proposal
- Scientist Consensus Statement on Tesla Preservation
- Tesla Park First Proposed in 1956!
- Help Protect Tesla and Reform the Off-Highway Vehicle Program
- Support SB 249 at Senate Transportation and Housing Committee Hearing
- Support SB 249
- Keep Tesla Beautiful – NO OHV Use
- We need your help! – DONATE to Support Legal Costs to Save Tesla Park
- FRIENDS FILES LAWSUIT TO PROTECT TESLA FROM CARNEGIE EXPANSION
- Fight to Save Tesla Park Continues
- Mark your Calendars for October 21, 2016 Tesla Hearing in Sacramento
- Email NOW to SAVE Tesla Park
- Ask Baker ad Glazer to support Tesla
- Upcoming Tesla Events
- Help Tesla – attend ‘Pelican Dreams’ Fundraiser May 22, 2016
- OHMVR Commission Hearing on CSVRA/Tesla General Plan and EIR expected in Summer
- Recap of 2/5/16 OHMVR Hearing on CSVRA Final Draft EIR
- Our work for the last several years has been building for this important hearing!
- Carnegie Final EIR Delayed to Early 2016
- Email your State Legislator
- DONATE Today to Help SAVE Tesla Park
- Tule Elk still on Tesla
- California Native Grassland Association joins work to Save Tesla
- Tesla Fire
- What’s next?
- Thank you Friends of Tesla Park!
- Alameda County and City of Livermore support Tesla Preservation
- Email your Comments by June 29, 2015 Deadline!
- CSVRA Public Comment Period Extended to June 29, 2015
- CSVRA Releases Preliminary General Plan and EIR for Public Review – submit comments by June 8, 2015 deadline
- CSVRA Releases Preliminary General Plan and EIR for Public Review
- Online Donations Now Available
- Tule Elk Range on Tesla
- Carnegie SVRA delays release of Draft EIR and General Plan to early 2015
- DEIR Release Expected in “Fall 2014”
- Tesla Road Residents support preservation
- Tesla Buckeye
- Support grows to preserve Tesla
- Support for Preserving Tesla Keeps Growing
- Non-Motorized Nature Parks in highest demand
- Carnegie SVRA Draft EIR delayed to Fall 2014
- Support for Tesla Preservation Grows
- Beautiful Tesla
- Watch for email updates – DEIR now expected in Spring 2014
- A Livermore resident’s call to SAVE Tesla Park
- Say NO to OHV Use in Tesla – December 13, 2013 comment deadline
- ACTION ALERT – Attend November 12 Public Meeting to SAVE Tesla Park
- EBRPD Keeps Tesla in Master Plan
- Historic Harrisville part of Tesla Park
- Tell State Parks: no OHVs in Tesla Park
- Action Alert – Comment by July 15, 2013
- OHMVR announces June 10 workshop on DEIR Alternatives
- Local Legislators support protection of Tesla Park
- Update – Carnegie SVRA General Plan and EIR
- Tesla Park Up Close
- What do you want for Tesla Park?
- Tesla Park can be preserved under OHMVR Statute
- Donate to SAVE Tesla Park
- Wild Tesla
- How can Carnegie SVRA get away with it?
- Beautiful Tesla
- Carnegie SVRA/Tesla Park EIR update
- More Friends join to save Tesla Park
- The Truth About OHMVR Divi$ion Funding
- Fall in Tesla Park
- Tesla Park Critical Habitat Corridor
- Tesla paleontology research site
- Bio-diversity is part of Tesla Park’s lure
- NOP Comment Deadline extended to July 11, 2012
- Biologically rich Tesla Park requires protection
- The Independent backs saving Tesla Park
- The TRUTH about OHMVR Divi$ion funding
- NOP Comment Deadline – June 11, 2012
- State launches General Plan/EIR process
- Cultural Wonders
- Treadwell House connection to Tesla Park
- Natural Wonders
- On the Spanish Trail
- Anza Trail near Tesla Park
- Tesla in Botanical Priority Protection Area
- Native Americans left their mark on Tesla
- Tesla historic resources need protection
- Join Us!
- Friends Web Site launched
Back to Resources
Following is a list of past News/Updates posts:
- Fight Climate Change
- Court Invalidates EIR
- UC Professors Statement
- Don’t Take Tesla Park Too
- Make Actions Match Words
- Advance Goals to Protect Biodiversity
- Newsom Should Protect Tesla Park
- Local Agencies Will Pay State
- Permanently Preserve Tesla Now
- Stop Pretending
- Times Up
- 30 x 30
- It Is Time
- Failed EIR Attempts
- Court Rules EIR & General Plan Invalid
- Powerful Call to the Governor
- Native American Features
- Follow The Science
- Redesignate Tesla
- Implement Biodiversity Executive Order
- Bay Nature Op Ed
- Save Mount Diablo Colloquium
- Tule Elk & Golden Eagles
- Biodiversity Executive Order
- Return Funds to State Parks
- Critical Linkage Habitat Corridor
- Travesty
- Support From Community Groups
- Educational Site
- Cultural Landscape
- Biodiversity Hotspot
- Mitigation for Destructive Impacts of OHV
- Best Management Practices
- Valley Fever
- Environmental Damage
- Governor’s Biodiversity Executive Order
- Time to Walk the Walk
- Increase Access to Nature
- Win-Win
- 28 Locally Rare Plant Species
- Fight Climate Change and Expand Motorized Recreation?
- Access For All NOT Access For All Uses
- Top 3 Priorities
- 30 x 30
- 42 Special Status Species
- Preserve Nature for Underserved Communities
- Demand for Nature Areas Increases
- Tesla Is Not The Place
- Expand OHV As We Push To Reduce Carbon Emissions?
- Fighting Climate Change
- Overwhelming Local Support
- Gas Tax Transfers
- Top Conservation Priority
- UN Study on Biodiversity
- Valley Fever
- Red Flag Days
- Spare the Air Days
- Tricolored Blackbirds
- Air Pollution & Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation
- Golden Eagles & Tule Elk
- 30 By 30
- UC Berkeley Study
- Golden Eagle Nesting Area
- UC Berkeley Study Shows Tesla a Conservation Priority
- Tesla Park Should Not Be Sacrificed
- What is Tesla Park?
- Historical Places
- Home to 42 Special Status Species
- Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog
- 1956 East Bay Regional Park District Plan
- Off-Highway Vehicles Environmental Damage
- Fire at Carnegie SVRA
- Help Build Support for Tesla
- We will Save Tesla Park
- AB 1086 vetoed- Fight to Save Tesla Continues!
- Ask Governor to sign AB 1086 into law
- AB 1086 (Bauer-Kahan) Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area bill PASSED by Legislature
- Contact Appropriations Committee to support SB 767
- Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee approves SB 767
- Next SB 767 Hearing – July 3, 2019 in Accountability and Administrative Review Committee
- SB 767 passes Assembly WPW Committee
- SB 767 Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee Hearing Tuesday, June 18, 2019
- SB 767 passes Senate
- SB 767 passes out of Senate Committees to Floor Vote
- SB 767 Passes Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee
- Support SB 767 – Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area
- Work to Save Tesla Park Continues – Remember Tesla in year-end Donations
- SB 1316 falters in Assembly, but fight to Save Tesla Park continues
- Support Tesla at OAS Annual Potluck June 5
- SB 1316 passes the Senate
- Support SB 1316 – Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area
- More Legislators Support Tesla Preservation Proposal
- Friends drops support for SB 249
- SB 249 Passes Assembly Committee
- Contact your State Senator to Support SB 249
- State studies document OHV getting excess fuel taxes
- Senator Glazer and Assembly Member Baker support Tesla Preservation Proposal
- Scientist Consensus Statement on Tesla Preservation
- Tesla Park First Proposed in 1956!
- Help Protect Tesla and Reform the Off-Highway Vehicle Program
- Support SB 249 at Senate Transportation and Housing Committee Hearing
- Support SB 249
- Keep Tesla Beautiful – NO OHV Use
- We need your help! – DONATE to Support Legal Costs to Save Tesla Park
- FRIENDS FILES LAWSUIT TO PROTECT TESLA FROM CARNEGIE EXPANSION
- Fight to Save Tesla Park Continues
- Mark your Calendars for October 21, 2016 Tesla Hearing in Sacramento
- Email NOW to SAVE Tesla Park
- Ask Baker ad Glazer to support Tesla
- Upcoming Tesla Events
- Help Tesla – attend ‘Pelican Dreams’ Fundraiser May 22, 2016
- OHMVR Commission Hearing on CSVRA/Tesla General Plan and EIR expected in Summer
- Recap of 2/5/16 OHMVR Hearing on CSVRA Final Draft EIR
- Our work for the last several years has been building for this important hearing!
- Carnegie Final EIR Delayed to Early 2016
- Email your State Legislator
- DONATE Today to Help SAVE Tesla Park
- Tule Elk still on Tesla
- California Native Grassland Association joins work to Save Tesla
- Tesla Fire
- What’s next?
- Thank you Friends of Tesla Park!
- Alameda County and City of Livermore support Tesla Preservation
- Email your Comments by June 29, 2015 Deadline!
- CSVRA Public Comment Period Extended to June 29, 2015
- CSVRA Releases Preliminary General Plan and EIR for Public Review – submit comments by June 8, 2015 deadline
- CSVRA Releases Preliminary General Plan and EIR for Public Review
- Online Donations Now Available
- Tule Elk Range on Tesla
- Carnegie SVRA delays release of Draft EIR and General Plan to early 2015
- DEIR Release Expected in “Fall 2014”
- Tesla Road Residents support preservation
- Tesla Buckeye
- Support grows to preserve Tesla
- Support for Preserving Tesla Keeps Growing
- Non-Motorized Nature Parks in highest demand
- Carnegie SVRA Draft EIR delayed to Fall 2014
- Support for Tesla Preservation Grows
- Beautiful Tesla
- Watch for email updates – DEIR now expected in Spring 2014
- A Livermore resident’s call to SAVE Tesla Park
- Say NO to OHV Use in Tesla – December 13, 2013 comment deadline
- ACTION ALERT – Attend November 12 Public Meeting to SAVE Tesla Park
- EBRPD Keeps Tesla in Master Plan
- Historic Harrisville part of Tesla Park
- Tell State Parks: no OHVs in Tesla Park
- Action Alert – Comment by July 15, 2013
- OHMVR announces June 10 workshop on DEIR Alternatives
- Local Legislators support protection of Tesla Park
- Update – Carnegie SVRA General Plan and EIR
- Tesla Park Up Close
- What do you want for Tesla Park?
- Tesla Park can be preserved under OHMVR Statute
- Donate to SAVE Tesla Park
- Wild Tesla
- How can Carnegie SVRA get away with it?
- Beautiful Tesla
- Carnegie SVRA/Tesla Park EIR update
- More Friends join to save Tesla Park
- The Truth About OHMVR Divi$ion Funding
- Fall in Tesla Park
- Tesla Park Critical Habitat Corridor
- Tesla paleontology research site
- Bio-diversity is part of Tesla Park’s lure
- NOP Comment Deadline extended to July 11, 2012
- Biologically rich Tesla Park requires protection
- The Independent backs saving Tesla Park
- The TRUTH about OHMVR Divi$ion funding
- NOP Comment Deadline – June 11, 2012
- State launches General Plan/EIR process
- Cultural Wonders
- Treadwell House connection to Tesla Park
- Natural Wonders
- On the Spanish Trail
- Anza Trail near Tesla Park
- Tesla in Botanical Priority Protection Area
- Native Americans left their mark on Tesla
- Tesla historic resources need protection
- Join Us!
- Friends Web Site launched
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With so much work by so many people to prepare for the OHMVR (Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division) Commission Hearing on the CSVRA (Carnegie State Vehicle Recreation Area) Draft Final EIR on 2/5/16, here we wanted to provide an update. As expected, asthma
the Commission did not vote, disinfection
but just took testimony for future action.
Friends of Tesla Park and many supporters spoke at the OHMVR Commission Hearing commenting on the CSVRA Draft Final EIR. We achieved our objective to document the broad community opposition to the CSVRA expansion plan into Tesla and the substantive reasons why Tesla is not appropriate for OHV use. Comments focused on the defects in the Final EIR and on the inadequate responses to earlier comments on the DEIR in June.
The Tracy City Council Chambers was overflowing with standing room only by 8:45 a.m. The testimony at the hearing did not start until about 10:00 a.m. and closed after lunch at about 3:30 p.m. While there were more industry reps, staff and others in favor of the OHV/Carnegie expansion, most did not speak. Tesla had the majority of speakers. About 42 speakers testified for Tesla preservation and in opposition to CSVRA EIR/expansion, and 23 speakers for CSVRA expansion. Friends Organizations represented at the hearing included:
- Ohlone Audubon Society
- Mount Diablo Audubon Society
- Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge (CCCR)
- Sierra Club
- Center for Biological Diversity
- East Bay CNPS
- Livermore Heritage Guild
- Friends of Springtown Preserve, Livermore
- Friends of The Vineyards
- Friends of Livermore
- Tesla Road Residents Alliance
- Rancher Group
- Society of American Indians, Livermore
- Friends of the Arroyos
- Alameda Creek Alliance
- Save Mount Diablo
- Tri-Valley Trailblazers
- Save the Frogs
- SPRAWLDEF
- Regional Parks Association
Representatives from four agencies also spoke to object to the EIR including LARPD; Alameda County CDA; Alameda Parks, Recreation and Historic Commission; and Alameda County Resource Conservation District.
At the end of the hearing, the Chair stated that there would be no more hearings, the record was closed and the matter would come back to the Commission for a decision at a public meeting in about six months.
We cannot thank you all enough for the help, excellent work and expertise. To the organizations who have made saving Tesla a program priority – Thank you. To the group leadership who reviewed the FEIR and prepared a written comment letter – Thank you. To the citizens who attended the hearing in support and to testify for Tesla – Thank you. To our Friends who provide other support – Thank you. This was another important step in the process to Save Tesla.
We will keep you posted on the EIR process. Watch for updates on next steps!
Below is a photograph of the Tule elk on Tesla – just one of the many reasons why we need to SAVE Tesla.