SPRAWLDEF is the Sustainability, Parks, Recycling, and Wildlife Legal Defense Fund

SPRAWLDEF is a non-profit organization created to take on environmental issues that others cannot or will not pursue. It is primarily focused on legal action, and has successfully sued agencies and cities over misguided landfill and development projects, as well as ill-conceived policies. SPRAWLDEF seeks to redress the imbalance created by the massive human footprint on the environment, protecting the fragile state of our wildlife and habitat caught under that footprint.

Point Molate Park

CURRENT CAMPAIGNS

Protecting Pt. Molate as Accessible Open Space

After years of litigation and advocacy by SPRAWLDEF and coalition partners, our advocacy helped secure $36 million of funding by the East Bay Regional Park District to purchase this one of a kind site, to be developed as a future waterfront park.

Bike park for trail and enduro bike in Bratislava vrakuna.

CURRENT CAMPAIGNS

Protecting Wildcat Canyon

SPRAWLDEF and Friends of Wildcat Canyon are extremely concerned about the undemocratic process by which the mountain bike “thrill” trail has been proposed for construction in Wildcat Canyon’s natural area, including impacts on plants and wildlife in currently undisturbed riparian and grassland habitat. To join our coalition in efforts to oppose this proposal, please learn more on our Parks page, and also visit protectwildcatcanyon.org

Golden gate

CURRENT CAMPAIGNS

The Future of Golden Gate Fields:
What’s Next?

Another major campaign on the horizon involves the critical question of what type of activities or development will succeed the 2024 closure of Golden Gate Fields racetrack, which has significant bay front territory in both Berkeley and Albany. SPRAWLDEF has long advocated for reactivation of this 140 acre site as a restored marsh land that would provide the critical connection between existing parklands.

Marsh Landscape, Coyote Hills Regional Park, East San Francisco

CURRENT CAMPAIGNS

Cleaning up the Zeneca Toxic Bayfront Site

SPRAWLDEF is part of a coalition working to demand proper, updated environmental review and to limit development on an extremely toxic 90 acre site currently known as the Zeneca property, which sits on the bay shoreline in Richmond, California

“The San Francisco Bay is a remarkable wild resource—we are fighting to keep it that way.”

NORMAN LA FORCE, CO-FOUNDER, SPRAWLDEF

Point Molate Park

Success Story

Protecting Pt. Molate as Accessible Open Space

After years of litigation and advocacy by SPRAWLDEF and coalition partners, our advocacy helped secure $36 million of funding by the East Bay Regional Park District to purchase this one of a kind site, to be developed as a future waterfront park.