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.

Join this afternoon of conversations on March 21... read more.

A Nature Note Early spring has come to the Canyon with vivid orange California poppies blooming along the edge of Centennial Drive. And in amongst the larger trees, wild plums have exploded into clouds of ethereal white blossoms bringing brief beauty and a sweet fragrance before the flowers drop and are replaced by green and bronze leaves. — Phila Rogers See also Phila Rogers' Late Winter Musings on the Hill at the Lawrence Hall of Science website.

March 12, 2010: The California Court of Appeals reversed a previous Alameda Superior Court judgement that would have required the Regents to recirculate part of their Environmental Impact Report on construction projects in Strawberry Canyon for possible revisions...read more...

Attend our Special Event on March 21 and learn about the danger of earthquakes in Strawberry Canyon. See the drawing to the left and read more...

New Videos: We now have two new videos on YouTube. See them here.

March 15, 2010 is the deadline for submitting comments on LBNL's Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on the construction of a new 43,000 gross square foot General Purpose Laboratory in the upper watershed of Strawberry Creek in a landslide area...read more

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.

February 23: An appeal on the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Lab's 2006 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) was heard by a three judge panel in the 1st District, Division 4, in San Francisco...read more

February 9: We sent a letter expressing our strong support of FEMA's decision to do a more thorough environmental review of the proposed vegetation management project in the East Bay Hills...read more