Hismet Warep, a State Park Reserve: Ten Good Reasons Why

Hismet Warep, a State Park Reserve: Ten Good Reasons Why

A light crunch, crunch, crunch. My shoes remind me that I am treading on soft earth punctuated with small stones left by long gone streams marking the trail. Soft winds agitate the leaves and trigger a peep from an overhead eagle nest. Urban noise does not interrupt my tranquility, and I keep walking to… where? No goals, just wander among…

Help Create a Tesla Reserve

Classify Tesla as a 3,100 acre State Reserve under Public Resources Code 5019.65. State Reserve classification helps to fully preserve particularly rare and sensitive plants, animals, scenic qualities, geological features and cultural resources of statewide significance. Tesla has all of these qualities.  People are still allowed and encouraged to visit reserves. There is public access for day use within reserves…

Classify Tesla as a Reserve and establish the Hismet Warep Reserve

Classify Tesla as a Reserve and establish the Hismet Warep Reserve

Tesla is part of the ancestral homelands of the Northern Valley Yokuts from the Central Valley and Ohlone in the East Bay.  On this Indigenous Peoples Day, State Parks should classify Tesla as a Reserve, giving it the name ‘Hismet Warep’ (meaning ‘Sacred Earth’ in the Chochenyo language of the Ohlone people) so that its cultural and natural heritage can…