Baumberg Tract
Subtitle: from the proposed shorelands development to the wetlands restoration (Eden Landing Ecological Reserve), 1982-1999
By: interviews conducted by Malca Chall in 1996, 1997, and 1998. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley,
Contributors: Cogswell, Howard L.; Delfino, Janice, 1926-; Thorpe, John M., 1932-$ive; Cooper, Roberta G., 1937-; Douglass, Robert C., 1943-; Foreman, Steve, 1953-; Weissman, Karen G.; Sorensen, Peter C., 1950-; Wilcox, Carl G., 1950-; Cole, Carolyn.; Murray, Richard.; Chall, Malca.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Wetlands -- California -- Hayward.; Wetland restoration -- California -- Hayward.; Land use -- California -- Hayward.; Real estate development -- California -- Hayward.; City planning -- California -- Hayward.; Racetracks (Horse-racing) -- California -- Hayward.; Baumberg Tract (Calif.); Eden Landing Ecological Reserve (Calif.)
Other titles: California water resources oral history series.
Description: Interviews with eleven persons involved in controversy over plans to build a racetrack and business park (denied) on a wetland site along the Hayward shoreline and approval to restore it as a wildlife sanctuary. Leslie Salt Division (Cargill Corporation); environmental regulations; compilation of Environmental Impact Reports/Statements; correspondence, memoranda, research papers appended.