Projects &
Classes
The following classes
are held at either:
Coyote Hills
Regional Park
8000 Patterson Ranch Road
Fremont, California
Garin/Dry Creek Pioneer
Regional Parks
1320 Garin Avenue
Hayward, California
Quarry
Lakes Regional Recreatioun Area
2250 Isherwood Way
Fremont, California
Mission Peak Regional Preserve
East end of Stanford Avenue, off Mission Boulevard
Fremont, California
Registration is through the East
Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD).
Registration information:
1. If there is no fee required, please contact Coyote Hills Regional
Park (or EBRPD Central Registration) to pre-register. There is a maximum
number of participants for each class. Call the phone number indicated
in the description.
2. If there is a program fee, please register with EBRPD Central Registration,
through on-line registration or by phone. To register on-line,
access http://www.ebparks.org/webreg.To
register by phone, call 1-888-327-2757 (option 2, 3). Phone registration requires
a credit card. Call between 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays
and 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Fridays. The Central Registration office
is closed on weekends and holidays. The course code for fee programs
is indicated in the description (some of the programs may not have the course code yet).
Some of the classes will be at locations other than the parks mentioned above. See the "Location" description in the text of the class.
COYOTE HILLS FLINTKNAPPERS GET-TOGETHER KNAPPING SESSION
The Coyote Hills Flintknappers is a knapping get-together of flintknappers who like to flake stones, learn from each other, trade for materials, socialize and meet fellow knappers. The knapping get-together is open to beginners, intermediate and advanced flintknappers. Anyone who is interested in learning about the skill of flintknapping is more than welcome. We will meet one day in every month.
Date: February 27, 2010
Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Karl Nordvik Park, 5850 Commerce Dr, Fremont, CA 94555
The park is on the corner of Commerce Dr. and Ardenwood Blvd. We will be located near the children's swings, under a pine tree. Parking is free.
Contact Dino Labiste for more information at kahikoarts@yahoo.com or access http://www.primitiveways.com/Coyote%20Hills%20Flintknappers.html
No fee to attend the knapping get-together. Open to the public.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL VILLAGE SITE: OHLONE CULTURE
Learn about the Ohlone culture as we tour a model of village life at the Visitor Center. We’ll hike to a 2,500-year-old Tuibun Ohlone village site, see replicated structures and examine reproductions of artifacts. Along the trail, we’ll look at plants that provided food, medicine and tools for the first people that lived in the Bay Area.
Date: March 7, 2010
Time: 1:30 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road, Fremont, CA 94555
Meet at the Coyote Hills Visitor Center.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
COYOTE HILLS FLINTKNAPPERS: BEGINNERS
Unearth the art of turning an obsidian flake into a functional Paleolithic cutting tool. Learn about prehistoric equipment, such as hammer stones, and use modern materials, like copper pressure flakers. Practice beginning skills to create a Stone Age microblade or shape an arrowhead.
Date: March 14, 2010
Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road, Fremont, CA 94555
Meet at the Coyote Hills Visitor Center.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
EDIBLE AND USEFUL PLANTS HIKE
The California Natives and European settlers gathered wild plants for food, medicine and tools. We’ll look at plant samples and go on a springtime hike to identify edible and useful plants. We’ll gather Miner’s lettuce, Chickweed, Milk thistle, Black mustard and Wild radish for a tasty salad. We'll also process Manzanita cider, snack on dried Huckleberries, munch on acorn cookies, sip on Yerba buena tea and sample other savory wild foods.
Date: March 21, 2010
Time: 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Min/max Age: 12-yrs-old / Adult, Parent participation required
Location: Garin/Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Park, 1320 Garin Avenue, Hayward, CA 94544
Meet at the Garin Red Barn.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
SKILLS OF THE PAST: CORDAGE MAKING
The ability to twist, twine or braid fibers into cordage allowed indigenous cultures to tie their world together. You’ll learn the methods of gathering, preparation, extraction and plying of plant materials to create cordage. The efficient method of leg rolling dogbane fibers will be practiced.
Date: March 28, 2010
Time: 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Min/max Age: 9-yrs-old / Adult. Parent participation required
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road,
Fremont, CA 94555
Meet in front of the Visitor Center.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
SKILLS OF THE PAST: FIRE MAKING
Ever wondered how fire was created before matches or a lighter? What materials were used? We’ll unravel the secrets of fire-by-friction, fire-by-percussion and fire-by-compression. Discover the techniques required to produce a glowing ember as we practice our fire making skills through hands-on activities.
Date: March 28, 2010
Time: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Min/max Age: 12-yrs-old / Adult, Parent participation required
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road,
Fremont, CA 94555
Meet in front of the Visitor Center.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
TUIBUN OHLONE CULTURE
Discover how the first people that lived in the Bay Area utilized natural resources from the environment to create useful everyday items. Examine reproductions of functional tools and learn about plant uses. Watch flintknappers demonstrate the skill of flaking arrowheads from a volcanic stone called obsidian.
Date: April 10, 2010
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm & 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Instructors: Dino Labiste + assistance from the Coyote Hills Flintknappers Club
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road,
Fremont, CA 94555
Coyote Hills Visitor Center
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
LEARN TO CONSTRUCT A TULE BOAT
Experience how to build a tule boat from a marsh plant called tule. The California Native Americans made tule boats (or tule balsas) to cross inlets, deep marshes, lakes and the bay.
June 6, 9:00-2:00 pm (meet at the Coyote Hills Regional Park Visitor Center): We’ll gather tule. Then, we'll return back to the Coyote Hills Visitor Center to see a slide show about the indigenous uses of tule and learn about California Native tule boats.
June 27, 10:00-3:00 pm (meet at Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area): We’ll build a three-person tule boat and launch it for a paddle around the lake.
Participation in gathering tule is required to take the program.
Date: June 6, 2010 & June 27, 2010
Time: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm & 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Naturalist: Dino Labiste
Min/max Age: 12-yrs-old / Adult
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road,
Fremont, CA 94555 - June 6 & Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area, 2100 Isherwood Way, Fremont, CA 94536 (inquire at the Quarry Lake's kiosk entrance for the location of the program in the park) - June 27
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
SKILLS OF THE PAST: OBSIDIAN ARROWHEAD
Experience firsthand the skill of turning a volcanic rock into a functional Stone Age cutting tool. Learn the basic principles behind the ability to flake off obsidian chips predictably. Try hands-on knapping activities with hammer stones, antlers and copper tools. The Coyote Hills Flintknappers will assist.
Date: June 6, 2010
Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Naturalist: Dino Labiste
Age: Adult
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road,
Fremont, CA 94555
Meet in front of the Visitor Center.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
CELEBRATING FATHER’S DAY IN THE STONE AGE
Travel back in time as we explore the lives of hunters and gatherers. We'll bond as a Paleolithic tribe as we discover our world through a new language, learn to use primitive tools, create fire-by-friction and feast on meat (hot dogs) and grain (buns).
Date: June 20, 2010
Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Min/max Age: 7-yrs-old / Adult, Parent participation required
Fee: $10.00 ($12.00 for non-residents of Contra Costa and Alameda counties) + $5.00 parking fee/vehicle
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road,
Fremont, CA 94555
Meet in front of the Visitor Center.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
SKILLS OF THE PAST: FISH NET
Indigenous cultures utilized cordage and knots to create nets for catching fish. Discover the art of knotting to make a netted mesh. Learn the techniques to ply cordage and weave the start of a fishing net using a shuttle and gauge.
Date: July 3, 2010
Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Age: Adult
Fee: $15.00 ($17.00 for non-residents of Contra Costa and Alameda counties) + $5.00 parking fee/vehicle
Location: Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area, 2100 Isherwood Way, Fremont, CA 94536
Meet at the picnic table near the Boat Launch or
inquire at the Quarry Lake's kiosk entrance for directions to the program in the park.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
SKILLS OF THE PAST: SOAPROOT BRUSH
Create a brush made of fibers from the dry, outer layers of the Soap Plant bulb. California Natives utilized the soaproot brush for acorn flour processing or brushing hair. Identify and learn about the other applications of this useful plant during a short walk.
Date: July 10, 2010
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Min/max Age: 16-yrs-old / Adult, Parent participation required
Fee: $10.00 ($12.00 for non-residents of Contra Costa and Alameda counties) + $5.00 parking fee/vehicle
Location: Garin/Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Parks, 1320 Garin Avenue, Hayward, CA 94544
Meet at the Garin Barn Visitor Center (red barn).
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
SKILLS OF THE PAST: TULE BASKET
The marsh plant, called tule, was used by California Natives for various utilitarian items, like mats, boats, houses, duck decoys, as well as baskets. What makes this versatile plant so unique? Learn more as we create a berry picking basket from tule.
Date: July 10, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Age: Adult
Fee: $10.00 ($12.00 for non-residents of Contra Costa and Alameda counties) + $5.00 parking fee/vehicle
Location: Garin/Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Parks, 1320 Garin Avenue, Hayward, CA 94544
Meet at the Garin Barn Visitor Center (red barn).
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
SKILLS OF THE PAST: TULE MAT
Experience how to construct a California Native style tule mat from a marsh plant.
July 17, 2:00-4:00pm (meet at the Coyote Hills Regional Park Visitor Center): Gather tule.
July 24, 10:00-2:30pm (meet at the Coyote Hills Regional Park Visitor Center): Learn the skill to twine the tule with cordage to create a comfortable mat to sit on.
Participation in gathering tule is required to take the program.
Date: July 17, 2010 & July 24, 2010
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm & 10:00 am - 2:30 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Age: Adult
Fee: $10.00 ($12.00 for non-residents of Contra Costa and Alameda counties) + $5.00 parking fee/vehicle
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road,
Fremont, CA 94555
Meet in front of the Visitor Center.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
BOW DRILL & HAND DRILL FIRE MAKING
Learn the secrets of making fire. Indigenous cultures throughout the Americas utilized the hand drill method. The bow drill is used more by contemporary practitioners of fire making. Explore the difference between the two techniques of fire-by-friction. Learn how fire was created through hands-on activities.
Date: July 31, 2010
Time: 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Min/max Age: 12-yrs-old / Adult, Parent participation required
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road,
Fremont, CA 94555
Meet in front of the Visitor Center.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
SKILLS OF THE PAST: PALEOLITHIC TOOLS
Explore the world of human technological prehistory through stone tools. Learn tool making techniques and manufacture scrapers, burins and simple cutting implements using obsidian, chert and dacite. Practice how these lithic tools were used for drilling holes, shaping wood and processing food.
Date: July 31, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Age: Adult
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road,
Fremont, CA 94555
Meet in front of the Visitor Center.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
1st ANNUAL COYOTE HILLS ATLATL COMPETITION & KNAP-IN
Join us for a day of competitive primitive technology contests and stone tool making demonstrations. Learn from experienced Paleolithic spear (dart) throwers as they compete for atlatl championship scores in the International Standard Accuracy Competition (ISAC). Watch skilled knappers as they transform stone into functional tools. Age appropriate Stone Age activities for the public at the beginning of the event.
Date: September 5, 2010
Time: 10:00 pm - 4:00 pm [atlatl International Standard Accuracy Competition (ISAC) before noon]
Fee: No fee to attend the event (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road, Fremont, CA 94555
Meet at the Dairy Glen campsite (8 minutes walk towards the bay from the Old Quarry parking lot).
Open to the public.
Call Dino Labiste for informatiuon: (510) 544-3215. If you want to compete in the atlatl International Standard Accuracy Competition (ISAC) and/or be a part of the Knap-In, contact Dino Labiste at dlabiste@ebparks.org.
OHLONE VILLAGE SITE TOUR
Learn about the Tuibun Ohlone culture as we tour a model of village life at the Visitor Center. Walk to a 2,500-year-old Ohlone village site, see replicated structures and examine reproductions of artifacts. Along the trail, we’ll identify plants that provided food, medicine and tools for the first people of the Fremont/Bay Area.
Date: September 19, 2010
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm & 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road, Fremont, CA 94555
Meet in front of the Visitor Center.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
ACORN PROCESSING
The fall season is upon us and the acorns are dropping. Learn the skill of gathering acorn to produce a nutritional meal from the oak tree. The preparation of extracting the nut, pounding the flour, leaching and cooking will be demonstrated. Hands-on activity and tasting.
Date: September 26, 2010
Time: 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Garin/Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Parks, 1320 Garin Avenue, Hayward, CA 94544
Meet at the Garin Barn Visitor Center (red barn).
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
SKILLS OF THE PAST: FLINTKNAPPING
Unearth the art of turning an obsidian flake into a functional Paleolithic cutting tool. Learn about prehistoric equipment, such as hammer stones, and use modern materials, like copper pressure flakers. Practice beginning skills to create a Stone Age microblade or shape an arrowhead.
Date: October 16, 2010
Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Fee: No fee for the program (only $5.00 parking fee/vehicle)
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road, Fremont, CA 94555
Meet in front of the Visitor Center.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
SKILLS OF THE PAST: KNOTLESS STRING BAG
Acquire the skill to create a bag using the ancient technique of looping cordage. Knotless netting has been used to create bags, baskets, nets, garments and more for over 40,000 years. You’ll also learn about plant fibers and process a dogbane stalk to make cordage.
Date: October 23, 2010
Time: 12:30 am - 4:30 pm
Instructor: Dino Labiste
Fee: $5.00 ($7.00 for non-residents of Contra Costa and Alameda counties) + $5.00 parking fee/vehicle
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park, 8000 Patterson Ranch Road, Fremont, CA 94555
Meet in front of the Visitor Center.
Registration Required: 1-888-327-2757, option 2, 3
Call Naturalist Dino Labiste for info: (510) 544-3215
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