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Save Strawberry Canyon is a citizens' group that seeks to preserve and protect the watershed lands and cultural landscape of Strawberry Canyon. Save Strawberry Canyon formed out of the urgent need to take action in response to the threat of intrusive, inappropriate development on the Canyon lands.
Strawberry Canyon, opposite the Golden Gate, is a unique link to the East Bay Regional Park district lands and, by its streams and views, to the San Francisco Bay. The Canyon itself with its streamside vegetation, oak-bay woodlands, grasslands, and surrounding slopes, is a rich repository of wildlife directly adjacent to the dense urban populations of the UC Berkeley Campus and the cities of Berkeley and Oakland.
Save Strawberry Canyon seeks to inform the public about the impacts of proposed developments, to encourage location of such developments to more suitable sites, and to promote better public access to the beautiful Canyon with its wildlife and scenic resources.
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Eyes on the Sky With mid-summer approaching, song birds in the Canyon are less active and mostly silent now the breeding season is over. Now is the time to notice activity in the sky.
— photo by Bob Lewis A pair of Red-shouldered Hawks dominate the lower Canyon, their clear, repeated "keeyur keeyur" calls noticed by even the most distracted among us. The larger, quieter Red-tailed Hawk patrols the open hillsides ever vigilant for a careless rodent or an unsuspecting snake. And there's always the possibility of a visit from the most regal raptor of all — the Bald Eagle who recently perched on a high-tension tower above the Botanical Garden, stopping off on his commute from the Bay shore to the inland reservoirs where they bred. — Phila Rogers Read more of Phila's writings about the natural history of Strawberry Canyon at the Lawrence Hall of Science website. |
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LATEST NEWS
Taking a Strike and Dip in Strawberry Canyon. Beds of shale above UC dorms are sloping--but which way? Are the dorms in danger? Read more.
July 9: Save Strawberry Canyon sent a letter to the UC Regents urging them not to certify the Environmental Impact Report for LBNL's proposed Seismic Phase 2 Project because it fails to consider fully the impacts to the natural environment, the risks to the health and safety of the community, and the use of resources without degradation and unintended consequences. Read it here.
July 2: Save Strawberry Canyon sent a letter to the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board requesting that they initiate a risk assessment of LBNL's proposed construction which may pose a risk to water quality. Read a PDF copy here.
Grant Funding: Save Strawberry Canyon is proud to announce that it recently received grant funding from The Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment.
Will Berkeley Be the Next Haiti? Read an article by Steven Newton, a project director for the National Center for Science Education, on the Huffington Post.
Toxic Waste: Has LBNL released toxic waste into the Strawberry Canyon watershed? How well is this being monitored? Read this report by the Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste.
Videos: We have two videos on YouTube. See them here.
See additional events on our What's New page.