How Dirt Biking Shaped the Bay Area—and the West
Sixty years ago, Bay Area bikers discovered the Panoche Hills, southeast of San José. Public lands management changed forever.
Author Archives: Julia Sizek
Julia Sizek is a writer and postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley's Social Science Matrix. Her research focuses on conflict over the California desert's future and past. She is currently at work on a history of dirt biking in California.
The History of Vaccines Through an East Bay Regional Park
Before it became a park, Sobrante Ridge was home to vaccine testing and the infamous "Cutter Incident"
