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 brush clearing on the nearby Wildcat […]
V-O-Cal at Tilden Regional Park Sept 15-17 Read More »
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 person and discussed key priorities of
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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 do not intend to short change
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BTCEB volunteer trail maintenance at Crockett Hills completed our most successful year yet. This program is possible through the partnership with and support from the EBRPD park and trails program staff.
Over 100 different volunteers were able to give back to the trails. 650 volunteer hours in total at a value of over $19,000 were contributed.
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The East Bay Regional Park District board held a Trail Study Session on December 2nd. The first half of the session was a summary highlighting some of the parks trails projects. “Trails” include both paved and natural surface trails and width ranging from roads to narrower paths. Paved regional trails such as the Bay Trail
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BTCEB has been a proud supporter of the NorCal NICA League with its mission to build strong body, mind, character, and community through the inclusive sport of interscholastic cycling. This year, we strived to amplify our impact by increasing our donation by 5x and focusing on the grassroots level needs of NICA teams in our local East Bay area.
Based on the needs that we heard, we awarded $5,000 across the following six local NICA teams: Oakland Composite High, Bishop O’Dowd High, Wildcat Composite Middle, El Cerrito High, Skyline High, and East County Shred Composite.
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The November 8th elections have the Oakland District 4 council seat and Mayoral races of interest. Joaquin Miller Park is located in Oakland’s 4th District. We ask that you become an informed voter and participate in these elections. Candidates were requested to participate in our survey. Links to their responses are posted below along with
November 2022 Oakland District 4 & Mayoral Candidate Survey Read More »
BTCEB Board of Directors elections will be held at our February 2 meeting. Nominations are open until Sunday, January 30. Five positions will be up for election.
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by Scott Bartlebaugh, BTCEB Advocacy Director Wildcat Canyon Flow Trail THANK YOU to all of you that signed the Wildcatflowtrail.org petition taking it to nearly 2000 signatures. After the public comments by us at the EBRPD on December 7th, the staff reports that they have started to study the site further and get some plant/bio surveys under contract
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By Scott Bartlebaugh, Advocacy Director We’ve been part of an effort working with EBPRD staff on a concept for a bike flow trail at Wildcat Canyon Regional Park (East Bay Regional Park District) for the last year and it’s progressed to a point of needing some broader community participation. “The Park staff has reviewed the
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