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BCTEB trail stewardship advocates met with EBPRD trails program staff to discuss expansion of volunteer trail opportunities.  BTCEB has been working in partnership with EBPRD since 2015 at Crockett Hills on volunteer trail work ranging from large trail work days, smaller group work sessions, to individual work sessions.   BTCEB…

Help us build a new trail segment in the Tilden Park’s Botanic Garden to provide new planting opportunities. This trail is in a steep section of the garden and we will build a stone retaining wall to anchor the trail. In addition, we will work on tread, drainage and…

BTCEB advocates reached out to EBRPD board members ahead of their July 21st  planning workshop.   Each board member discussed their particular top priorities for the district at this workshop in the series.   We met with 5 of the 7 board members either virtually, by phone, or in…

Photo Courtesy TeslaPark.org The  California State Parks planning process is moving forward and they’ve got a mailing list, website and Facebook page up.  The project is a planning effort to incorporate over 3,000 acres of land, located on Tesla Road in eastern Alameda County and known as the Alameda-Tesla…

In case you’re not aware of the Briones Pilot Program here’s a little background first.  After 100’s of hours of meetings and trail tours with EBRPD planning staff and members of organizations that have historically advocated against increased bike access on public lands, BTCEB is thrilled to report on…

The Briones Pilot Project is the result of a broad variety of actions from a number of stakeholders from different user groups who in many cases are not particularly connected.  As such this perspective certainly won’t reflect everything that has happened or everybody that has played a part.  We…

Thank you BTCEB community for supporting this fundraiser.   Your donations raised nearly $3400 for BTCEB and an additional $850 for CAMTB.   Your donations will support local trails and advocacy along with state level advocacy.   The dream bike winner was Bill Chin from Newport Beach.   Locally Erica Sander from San…

Commentary article published in Bay Area News Group papers today co-written by BTCEB Advocacy Director Scott Bartlebaugh.  BTCEB Advocacy is working incredibly hard these days. Unlike this article much of it is invisible and behind the scenes developing positive relationships and trust with staff and elected decision makers. If…

The Briones Pilot has kicked off and is underway.  Details can be found on the EBRPD Briones Pilot web site.  The pilot establishes a pilot area in the northeast portion of the park.  Within the pilot area the program allows downhill bike only access to four “bootleg” trails, bike…

EBRPD held their first public meeting focused on the Wildcat Flow Trail Project on April 25th. About 260 people attended with the vast majority being mountain bike riders and a large number of those being either middle or high school mtb program students or adults associated with those programs. …