Memorial Day weekend in the redwoods
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Skateboarding in the redwoods
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Wishing our friend Bob Doyle at EBRPD well as he retires
onAfter starting as a ranger at East Bay Regional Park District and becoming its general manager, Bob Doyle retires after 47 years of looking after many of the Bay Area’s most treasured landscapes.
Redwoods Helped Connect My Latino Family to the Outdoors
onGuest writer Amanda Machado in Redwoods magazine recounts how visiting the redwoods with her family and friends made the outdoors feel culturally like home. “People shouldn’t have to search outside their community to find magic outside,” she writes.
Workday Volunteers Protect Stream Habitat at Oakland’s Redwood Regional Park
onA group of volunteers from Workday came out to Redwood Regional Park in Oakland to work with the League and East Bay Regional Park District rangers on an important restoration project.
Tracking Seasonal Changes in Our Parks
onWhat determines when shrubs bloom? The study of seasonal life cycle events such as this is called phenology, and gathering long-term data on these cycles is the focus of the California Phenology Project (CPP). Collecting data is simple, and anyone can participate. For the past couple of months, I’ve been tracking some plants in Redwood Regional Park as part of the Redwood Phenology Project by Save the Redwoods League and the East Bay Regional Park District.
Student Perspectives: Driving Through the Redwoods
onWhat is home? For me, it is the redwoods. Whether you’re hiking, biking, or in my family’s case, driving, you just can’t beat the redwood forest. Not only are these trees beautiful beyond measure, but they are also a place of bonding and healing. Joaquin Miller Park and Redwood Regional Park have always been my family’s favorite places, and I will always think of them as places of comfort and sanctuary.
Student Perspectives: From Student to Teacher at Redwood Regional Park
onOne of my favorite places on Earth is Muir Woods, so when it was announced that we would be going to Redwood Regional Park as part of a field trip for my UC Berkeley/Save the Redwoods League joint internship, I was insanely excited.
Oakland Tech Takes to the Woods
onLast Friday, three school buses motored up into the Oakland Hills with 140 ninth graders from Oakland Tech High School. These students joined us to visit Chabot Space & Science Center and explore the coast redwood forest just beyond. Despite …
How Open Space Can Bring Us Together
onIn honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the National Park Service offered free admission to its parks on Monday. I hope you were able to take advantage, because visiting a park — whether national, state, or neighborhood — is …
A Surprise in the Forest
onHiking through the forest is often meditative for me. The familiarity of the trees, the sound of the birds, and the smell of the plants allow my mind to wander and ponder life. But sometimes I am stopped in my …
Where have all the flowers gone?
on“Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing.” -Pete Seeger Over 170 years ago, early loggers began extracting redwood from the San Francisco bay area. The trees they cut were monumental and today we can still find the remnant stumps …
The Last Redwood of the East Bay
onHigh above the sprawling city, the heat from rooftops and roads casts a shimmering haze mirrored by the ocean beyond. Here, rising above the oak and bay forest, its trunk twisted and scarred by centuries of wind and fire, it …
