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Protest at UC Berkeley (Memorial Oak Grove)
This group is camped out at a site where old, mature oak trees are scheduled to be torn out
to make way for a new gym.
The group's website: www.saveoaks.com (now expired)
The following is from a flyer the group was handing out:
UC Berkeley is pursuing plans to destroy the Memorial Oak Grove (including the ~200 year old
heritage oak shown at right) [Refers to photo in flyer] to make way for an athletic training facility
and concrete patio. The development plans would gut the heart of the oak woodland, cutting
down 38 mature Coast Live Oaks, leaving only a thin line of 12 oaks along the edge of the grove.
The plan is in blatant violation of the City of Berkeley Coast Live Oak Moratorium that forbids cutting down any mature Coast Live Oaks within city limits. Every oak in the Memorial Grove should be protected by law, but because the University is part of state government they have said they "are not obliged to follow local environmental laws." By choosing to break this law, UC is dismissing
the values of the community, ignoring the significance of a native ecosystem, and setting a terrible example for its students.
The Memorial Oak Grove is the largest surviving Coast Live Oak woodland in the Berkeley lowlands. Native oak woodlands support the most complex terrestrial ecosystems in the state of California.
The University has suggested that it would be OK to cut down the trees because they would "replace them 3 to 1" with new trees. There are three fundamental problems with this:
1. The existing ecosystem would be destroyed.
2. Three small trees can't begin to replace the biomass of a mature oak, a true replacement would need to be at least one hundred to one.
3. UC recently revealed that most of the "replacement" trees wouldn't even be oaks! And the "replacements" would be scattered across the campus.
Meanwhile, alternative construction sites exist that would not require this needless destruction.
We believe a University that has produced 27 Nobel laureates can figure out a way to build a new gym without cutting down a valuable natural area or breaking local environmental laws.
Saving the Memorial Oak Grove is Endorsed by
The Sierra Club
The California Native Plant Society
The California Oak Foundation
Julia Butterfly Hill
Berkeley Castle, located on a ridge above Berkeley Springs State Park in West Virginia, was built in 1885 by businessman Samuel Taylor Suit for his young bride, although he didn't live to see its completion. Built of local sandstone, it was open for house tours for many years but is now privately owned. More information is located on the town's website.
I took this picture from a distance in downtown Berkeley Springs, and obviously the foliage obscures much of the building, but I liked the appearance of it peeking out from the trees.
I was sad to hear that Oscar's, a 65-year-old burger joint in Berkeley, is soon shutting down. It didn’t have the best customer service, but you don't often run into places that have been operating since 1950 in this area.
Harriet Kung, associate director of science for DOE's Office of Basic Energy Sciences, was one of the kick-off speakers at last week's joint meeting of the Advanced Light Source and Molecular Foundry user and took advantage of her visit to the lab to inaugurate the TEAM 1.0 microscope at the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM). Cutting the ribbon that launched TEAM, Kung was assisted by (from left in photo) Uli Dahmen, heat of NCEM and the TEAM collaboration, TEAM Project Manager Peter Denes, and Berkeley Site Office Manager Aundra Richards.
4H High school students tour and learn from employees at Bayer on Friday, April 5, 2019 in Berkeley, Calif. ( Alison Yin/AP Images for National 4-H Council)
Saturdays at UC Berkeley
camps.berkeley.edu/year-round/archery/
camps@berkeley.edu
510-643-2267
Cal Archery Academy, Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) is a program of USA Archery that teaches archery to young people, provides great opportunities for awarding achievement, and helps archers to enjoy the sport recreationally or progress to the excitement of competition! CAL Archery Academy is designed as a RECURVE only archery training program and has a more serious, skill-development-oriented atmosphere. Beginners without equipment are welcome and competition does not need to be a required goal for participation.
Berkeley 96
2016-09-07 - Dardenne Prairie MO
04:58:56 - 05:38:48 UTC
Astro-Tech AT90EDT - SBIG ST-8300M
Luminance: 8x300s binned 1x1
BERKELEY LAKE PARK
North shore of Berkeley Lake, Tennyson St., W. 46th Ave. & Sheridan Blvd.
National Register 9/17/1986, 5DV.5307
"Berkeley Lake Park provides an attractively forested and lawned setting. It is a fine example of the early design and use of parks for public recreation programs (including swimming, horseshoes, tennis, etc.), for family picnics, for informal field games, and for public facilities (including a major senior and recreation center and a branch of the Denver Public Library). The park was originally developed between 1906 and 1910, but it was redesigned by Saco R. DeBoer in the 1920s."--Description from the Colorado Historical Society Website.
Saturdays at UC Berkeley
camps.berkeley.edu/year-round/archery/
camps@berkeley.edu
510-643-2267
Cal Archery Academy, Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) is a program of USA Archery that teaches archery to young people, provides great opportunities for awarding achievement, and helps archers to enjoy the sport recreationally or progress to the excitement of competition! CAL Archery Academy is designed as a RECURVE only archery training program and has a more serious, skill-development-oriented atmosphere. Beginners without equipment are welcome and competition does not need to be a required goal for participation.
Saturdays at UC Berkeley
camps.berkeley.edu/year-round/archery/
camps@berkeley.edu
510-643-2267
Cal Archery Academy, Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) is a program of USA Archery that teaches archery to young people, provides great opportunities for awarding achievement, and helps archers to enjoy the sport recreationally or progress to the excitement of competition! CAL Archery Academy is designed as a RECURVE only archery training program and has a more serious, skill-development-oriented atmosphere. Beginners without equipment are welcome and competition does not need to be a required goal for participation.
Saturdays at UC Berkeley
camps.berkeley.edu/year-round/archery/
camps@berkeley.edu
510-643-2267
Cal Archery Academy, Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) is a program of USA Archery that teaches archery to young people, provides great opportunities for awarding achievement, and helps archers to enjoy the sport recreationally or progress to the excitement of competition! CAL Archery Academy is designed as a RECURVE only archery training program and has a more serious, skill-development-oriented atmosphere. Beginners without equipment are welcome and competition does not need to be a required goal for participation.
Photos from the 2010 Berkeley Kite Festival. The two-day event in Cesar Chavez Park at Berkeley's Marina was put on by the Bay Area Sport Kite League, with one day of competition and one day of public exhibition.
Berkeley, CA 01 August 2010