General Information

"Dedicated to research on the development and use of wild lands" 

Russell Reservation is a 283 acre research station located adjacent to Briones Regional Park in the coastal hills of Contra Costa county, California. Since 1961 it has provided a location for wildland resource research and teaching for the University of California, Berkeley.

Russell Reservation encloses a small but complete watershed. The property is bordered on three sides by 5,700 acre Briones Regional Park. Adjoining Briones Park, and less than a mile from Russell Reservation, is the East Bay Municipal Utility District's (EBMUD) Briones Reservoir. The EBMUD land extends for three miles west to Tilden and Wildcat Canyon Regional Parks. This makes the Reservation part of one of the largest continuous wildland areas in the San Francisco Bay area.

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