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Regional in Nature Activity Guide MAY – JUNE 2021 Regional in Nature Activity Guide MAY – JUNE 2021 Visit ebparks.org for up-to-date information on parks and activities. Expanding a SF Bay Trail Connection. See page 2. inside • First Female General Manager, page 2 • Migrant Birds, page 11 • Swimming Facilities Open, page 3 • Plan a Fishing Trip, page 13 • Honoring the Past, page 8 • Sunol Events, page 14 Preparing for the 2021 Fire Season. • Least Terns, page 10 • Word Search, page 15 See page 4. Contents Trailblazer .............................. 2 New General Manager Takes the Helm SABRINA LANDRETH JOINS PARK DISTRICT Swim Facilities Reopen ....... 3 AS FIRST FEMALE GENERAL MANAGER Wildfire Protection ......... 4-5 Ardenwood ........................... 6 n Tuesday, March 2, As City Administrator of Oakland from 2015 to 2020, Big Break ................................ 7 O2021, the East Bay Ms. Landreth is credited with strong fiscal management Black Diamond ..................... 8 Regional Park District’s Board and developing a capital improvement program that of Directors appointed Sabrina included community equity goals. She created the first Coyote Hills .......................... 9 Landreth as General Manager municipal Department of Race and Equity in California, – the first female appointed which has become which has become a model throughout Crab Cove ........................... 10 in the Park District’s 87-year the United States. Her previous leadership in the public Del Valle ............................... 11 history. General manager sector includes serving as the City Manager of Emeryville Landreth’s first day was from 2012 to 2015 and in various state agencies. Mobile Education ............... 12 March 15, 2021. “I am honored to join such a respected organization,” Outdoor Recreation ......... 13 Ms. Landreth has deep roots in the said Landreth. “I look forward East Bay as a fifth generation native. to bringing a fresh perspective, Sunol ..................................... 14 She has held the top executive “She has all the right elements continuing to build upon the Tilden .................................... 15 leadership positions managing the of urban public sector leadership great work the District does cities of Oakland and Emeryville experience and understands to improve the quality of life Volunteer Program ............ 16 and has a master’s degree in the diversity of the East Bay for our East Bay community, public policy from UC Berkeley. communities we serve.” while adhering to its social and Landreth received her B.S. from – EBRPD Board President Dee Rosario environmental responsibilities.” the Massachusetts Institute Ms. Landreth succeeded Robert of Technology (MIT). Doyle, who retired as General “The Board is thrilled to have Sabrina join and lead Manager at the end of 2020 after an illustrious 47-year the Park District,” said Board President Dee Rosario. career with the Park District. “She has all the right elements of urban public sector ebparks.org leadership experience and understands the diversity of the East Bay communities we serve.” General Information 1-888-EBPARKS or 1-888-327- 2757 Park District Expanding SF Bay Trail Connection in Rodeo Camping and Picnic Reservations ... ................................1-888-EBPARKS n Rodeo, along the San Pablo Shoreline, lies the extension is complete, only two gaps will remain – one Naturalist and Recreation Ilittle-known Lone Tree Point, a small beach and shoreline near the Hercules Intermodal Transit Station and the other Programs ..............1-888-EBPARKS access point named after – you guessed it – a large lone between Point Pinole and Wilson Point. TRS Relay Service ....................7-1-1 tree along the shoreline. Lone Tree Point is owned by the The Lone Tree Point project costs $3.9 million and Park District and currently under construction for major received funding from the Park District’s Measure WW, public access upgrades, including additional parking, a San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority’s Measure EBRPD Board of Directors restroom, picnic area improvements, and a new half-mile AA, California Coastal Elizabeth Echols .........................Ward 1 SF Bay Trail extension Conservancy Bay Trail Funds, Dee Rosario (President) ..........Ward 2 with a 200-foot bridge California Transportation Dennis Waespi ...........................Ward 3 structure over protected Fund for Clean Air, California Ellen Corbett ..............................Ward 4 riparian habitat. Urban Greening-Cap & Trade Ayn Wieskamp ...........................Ward 5 Beverly Lane ...............................Ward 6 The half-mile Bay Trail Funds, and Contra Costa Colin Coffey ................................Ward 7 segment is an important County Transportation step toward creating Authority Measure J an eventual 30-mile grant funds. Visit ebparks.org for map continuous segment from downloads, activity and event The project is due to information, and much more! Rodeo to Oakland. After be completed in early the Lone Tree Point summer 2021! Shoreline Renaissance SWIM FACILITIES REOPEN 55 MILES OF EAST BAY SHORELINE ACCESSIBLE Memorial Day Weekend THANKS TO THE PARK DISTRICT AND COMMUNITY After a year of lake closures due to COVID-19, we are pleased to reopen regional park swimming facilities on any people don’t realize that 11 regional parks are located along the Saturday, May 29 of Memorial Day Weekend. Mshoreline bringing public access to the San Francisco Bay. Over the past Regrettably, Shadow Cliffs’ swim facility will 50 years, the East Bay’s shoreline has seen a vast transformation from industrial remain closed due to low water levels until and railroad use to public parklands accessible by all, especially disadvantaged further notice. communities that live nearby. This great “Shoreline Renaissance” has been the Judge John Sutter result of extraordinary vision, hard work, and dogged determination by community To adhere to health department COVID-19 Regional Shoreline leaders in the East Bay and public agencies like the East Bay Regional Park District. requirements, swim facilities will allow limited capacity with RESERVATIONS For generations, the shoreline was a bustling industrial zone, reaching its heights REQUIRED. Visitors must make reservations during World War II when shipyards, railyards, and landfills dominated the landscape. prior to arriving at the swim facility. Payment But after the war, the shipyards shut down, and the rail yards eventually followed. will not be accepted at the swim gate. The East Bay’s shorelines became an abandoned and deteriorating wasteland The Park District’s guarded swim facilities closed off from the public. Gorgeous views were blocked by piles of garbage include Castle Rock Pool, Contra Loma Swim and fill, as beaches became refuse dumps before Save the Bay was founded Lagoon, Cull Canyon Swim Complex, Del and stopped such dumping into the SF Bay. Valle Swimming Beaches, Don Castro Swim “The only public access to Richmond’s shoreline was 64 feet back in 1964,” says Lagoon, Quarry Lakes Swim Beach, Roberts Bruce Beyaert, a longtime parks and trails advocate and resident from Richmond. Pool Complex, Shadow Cliffs Swim Beach, Today, thanks to thousands of community advocates led by some important Temescal Swim Beach, and Tilden Lake Anza. Bay Trail at Albany Beach visionaries, including Oakland’s Judge John Sutter and Berkeley’s Silvia McLaughlin Always visit ebparks.org PRIOR to your (now deceased), the East Bay shoreline of the SF Bay is not only protected but visit for up-to-date information on the now accessible for recreation. status of the Park District’s swim facilities. Of the 55 miles of East Bay shoreline operated by the Park District, 30 miles Reopening may be affected by low water are mostly contiguous with few gaps, except in Oakland from High Street to levels and blue-green algae toxins. Jack London Square. The promise of a new Oakland A’s baseball stadium at the former Howard Terminal in the Port of Oakland will open up the waterfront to the public even further at a spot only seen by container ship staff and longshoremen offloading goods. And the newly opened Judge John Sutter shoreline park at the foot of the Bay Bridge connects the Bay Bridge Trail to Emeryville. However, turning a few feet of public access into miles of shoreline parks and San Pablo Bay trails alive with nature and open to all was not an overnight success. The Park Regional Shoreline District has been working on acquiring bits and pieces of parcels along the East Bay Regional Park District shoreline for the past 50 years, slowly but surely stitching together beautiful SHORELINE PARKS destinations available by walking, biking, automobile, or public transit. It has taken years of community advocacy, legislation, legal actions, regional planning, • Hayward Regional Shoreline, Hayward and, ultimately, much funding. Today, these parks provide an urban oasis for • Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline, San Leandro nearby communities to access parks and nature close to home – a significant • Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, Oakland social and environmental achievement. • Crown Memorial State Beach, Alameda • Judge John Sutter Regional Shoreline, Oakland Later this year the Park District will open the Berkeley Brickyard (behind the • McLaughlin Eastshore State Park, Emeryville, Seabreeze Café) at the entrance to McLaughlin Eastshore State Park with new Berkeley, Albany, and Richmond shoreline trails, parking and restrooms. • Point Isabel Regional Shoreline, Richmond • Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline,
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