Local Heroes 2025: Susan Schwartz, Community Hero
Susan Schwartz has decades of experience as a weed warrior.
Tag: Tilden Regional Park
Local Heroes 2024: Naji Lockett, Young Leader
Fallen oak branches, tangles of dense undergrowth, heaps of eucalyptus bark, and packed stands of fir trees cover thousands of acres of public land in the East Bay. Scrambling to...
A Photo Birding List for the Regional Parks Botanic Garden
Photos of nine birds the Botanic Garden Survey Team has spotted in the garden in the last few years.
Hikes for waning New Year’s resolutions
Some great hikes to inspire you as your New Year's resolution to "get in shape" starts to falter.
River Otters on the Rebound
Hungry river otters are popping up around the Bay Area in places where they haven't been seen in a while. Have fun watching them, but guard your chickens!
Depicting conservation success stories
It’s easy to get depressed about the loss of biodiversity when every day, it seems, some new species pops up on a watch list like a death toll. But there...
The Otter and the Perch
River otters have been wildlife stars at Jewel Lake in Tilden Regional Park off and on over the last year. But did you know they're chowing down on rare fish?
Up close with Berkeley’s wildlife at Tilden Regional Park
Photographer Elaine Miller Bond didn’t have far to go to take these beautiful photographs of a coyote and a red-shouldered hawk. They were shot right here in Tilden Regional Park...
A Lifetime at the Garden
Lifelong Bay Area resident Stephen Edwards has run the botanic garden in Tilden Park since 1983. Well-versed in geology as well as botany, Edwards says, "My main goal in life...
A Classroom in the Woods
The East Bay Regional Park District is not just the nation's largest and oldest regional park district. It also has what’s likely the largest corps of professional naturalists of any...
