Join us at Brushy Peak Regional Preserve in Livermore on September 13th and 14th from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm both days for a wonderful weekend of building new trails. If you like to hike, bike, or ride and enjoy well maintained trails, think about becoming a trail maintenance volunteer. The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) manages more than 98,000 acres of land in 65 parks, and maintains 1,150 miles of trails. Maintenance and rehabilitation of the existing trails is an ongoing process (similar to repairing potholes on public roadways) and is required due to public use, annual vegetation growth, and other forces of nature, particularly from erosion caused by the flow of water over and adjacent to trails. In order to provide for visitor safety and to protect parkland resources, EBRPD staff and volunteers provide a much-needed source of labor to repair and enhance existing trails and construct new narrow trails. In turn, the public learns concepts of land stewardship and resource conservation while givi ... read more