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Multicultural Wellness Walks & Trail Maintenance

On a clear Spring day in April 2017, 100 attendees from various ethnic communities (54% Asian, 30% South Asian, 5% Latino, 10% Caucasian, 1% African-American) from the entire Bay Area convened at the Sunol Regional Wilderness with the mission of fixing 1.4 miles of damaged trails. The group worked together with East Bay Regional Park District staff to provide the much-needed assistance to repair trails after a very wet winter.

As part of the East Bay Regional Park’s Ivan Dickson Trail Maintenance Day, these diverse members of our community spent 2.5 hours cutting and moving logs and lopping of branches to clear up the overgrown trail so that hikers and equestrian riders can enjoy the trail unimpeded. The happy and energetic group also stabilized sections of the Indian Joe and Canyon View trails, assisted with erosion control by redefining trail tread and drainage features, rerouted a 70-foot segment of the Indian Joe Trail up and away from the adjacent stream to reduce any water quality concerns while also protecting the trail from future high water impacts, and removed invasive species along the trail. In exchange for their enthusiastic support, the participants were treated to a delicious lunch from a middle-eastern restaurant while they were serenaded by a Latin folk singer and a Korean youth drumming group.

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