Tesla Park Information Sheet

SAVE Tesla Park
Dedicated to protecting this biologically unique and
culturally sensitive landscape as a non-motorized
historic and natural resource preserve
Who
Friends of Tesla Park is an alliance dedicated to protecting the biologically unique and culturally sensitive Tesla Park land.
Current list of organizations and agencies that support protecting Tesla Park include:
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Friends of the Vineyards
Greenbelt Alliance
Indian People Organizing for Change
Livermore Heritage Guild
Livermore Hill Hikers
Mount Diablo Audubon Society
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Nototomne Cultural Preservation
Ohlone Audubon Society
Public Employees for Environmental
Responsibility - PEER
Regional Parks Association
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Alameda Creek Alliance
California Native Grasslands
Association
California Oaks
California Sports Fishing Association
Center for Biological Diversity
Citizens Committee to Complete the
Refuge
East Bay Chapter of the California
Native Plant Society
Friends of the Arroyos
Friends of Livermore
Friends of Springtown Preserve
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ALAMEDA COUNTY Board of Supervisors voted to support preservation of Tesla on June 23, 2015
LIVERMORE City Council voted to support preservation of Tesla on May 18, 2015
LARPD Board voted to support preservation of Tesla on June 10, 2014
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Sacred Sites Protection & Rights of
Indigenous Tribes - SPP&RIT,
Vallejo
Save Mount Diablo
Save the Frogs Foundation
Sfbaywildlife.info
Society of American Indians,
Livermore
Sierra Club
SPRAWLDEF
Tesla Road Resident’s Alliance,
including neighboring ranchers
Tri-Valley Trail Blazers
What
Our goal is to permanently protect the Tesla Park land as a non-motorized low impact recreation historic and natural resource preserve.
Where
Tesla Park is located in eastern Alameda County. The existing Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area (SVRA) is directly east of the Tesla Park
land and is located in San Joaquin and Alameda Counties. Tesla is in the East Bay Regional Park District service area and is identified in the Park
District’s Master Plan as a potential regional preserve. Part of Tesla is in the Tri-Valley watershed and view shed. Tesla is part of the East Bay.
When
The public comment period closed on June 29, 2015 for the Carnegie SVRA Preliminary General Plan and Draft EIR for the existing Carnegie
SVRA and expansion into Tesla Park. This is the third time the OHMVR Division has tried to obtain environmental approval to expand OHV (OffHighway Vehicle) recreation use into Tesla. The Final EIR and General Plan could be issued as early as Fall 2015. We need to act now to protect
Tesla Park.
Why
Tesla Park includes a unique concentration of rare natural, historic, cultural, and scenic resources that will be damaged by OHV use. Tesla is also
important grazing land which will be lost to agriculture if opened to OHV use. Tesla contains the historic town site of Tesla, important Native
American features, at least seven Threatened and Endangered species/critical habitats, numerous targeted listed and sensitive biological
resources, critical wildlife corridors, and vistas of Mount Diablo, the Central Valley and the Sierras. OHV use is inherently damaging to the
environment. The adjacent Carnegie SVRA has caused significant environmental. OHMVR Division plans to expand Carnegie SVRA and open
Tesla for OHV use. Incredibly, the Preliminary General Plan and Draft EIR concluded that the project to establish a nearly 5,000 acre OHV park
will have no significant environmental impacts and no mitigation is required beyond existing management practices. We must take action now
to permanently protect Tesla as a non-motorized preserve for future generations or its wonders will be destroyed if the CSVRA General Plan and
EIR are approved.
Friends of Tesla Park - www.teslapark.org; [email protected]
9/24/15
TESLA
CARNEGIE SVRA