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Documents

  • July 9, 2010 - 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 a PDF copy here, and the attachments here.

  • July 2, 2010 - Save Strawberry Canyon sent a letter to the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board requesting that the initiate a risk assessment of LBNL's proposed construction which may pose a risk to water quality. Read a PDF copy here.

  • June 11, 2010 - Save Strawberry Canyon submitted comments to LBNL about their proposed Draft Environmental Report for the Solar Energy Research Center construction project. Read it here.

  • April 28, 2010 - Save Strawberry Canyon sent a letter to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory expressing concern that the Regents may approve certain construction projects in the canyon before an important environmental review is completed. Read it here.

  • March 21, 2010 - Read our Newsletter.

  • 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 a PDF copy of the Court's Opinion, or see the case information on the Court of Appeals website

  • February 9, 2010 - Save Strawberry Canyon sent a letter expressing strong support of FEMA's decision to do a more thorough environmental review of the proposed vegetation management project in the East Bay Hills. The letter was sent to Senator Diane Feinstein, Senator Barbara Boxer, and Secretary Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security. Read it here.

  • January 20, 2010 - The UC Board of Regents approved revised plans to build a new home for the Helios Energy Research Facility in a five-story building to be constructed west of the central Berkeley campus. Read the press release.

  • January 15, 2010 - Save Strawberry Canyon delivered a letter to the UC Regents asking them to consider not only the seismic situation under the Stadium in their environmental review, but also the geological conditions eastward of it. Impact analysis of the unstable caldera (volcano cavity) above the Stadium has not been included so far. Read it here.

  • December 15, 2009 - Save Strawberry Canyon delivered a letter to LBNL expressing our concern about the chain-link fences that are found in many areas of Strawberry Canyon. Read it here.

  • December 1, 2009 - CRT: LBNL issued a notice for the environmental review of their proposed Computational Research and Theory (CRT) Facility to be located on the wooded bluff below the Cyclotron. You can read a pdf copy of this notice at the LBNL website.

  • September 4, 2009 - BELLA: The U.S. Dept. of Energy declared that the proposed development of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator will have no significant environmental impact.
    • Read a pdf copy of the announcement here.
    • Other related documents are available at the BELLA website.
    • For Save Strawberry Canyon's comments on the project, see below.

  • August 17, 2009 - CRT: Save Strawberry Canyon won a summary judgement motion in its challenge "Save Strawberry Canyon vs. Department of Energy" in the U.S. District Court for Northern District of California. The judgement halts LBNL's Computer Research and Theory Facility (CRT) project pending a Federal environmental review (NEPA). You can read the court order in pdf format here.

  • August 3, 2009 - HELIOS: Chancellor Birgeneau announced a decision to relocate Helios out of Strawberry Canyon and to divide it into two projects:   "Helios West" for a downtown Berkeley location at the state public health building site, and a smaller "Helios East" at an unspecified LBNL hill site to be announced later.
    • You can read the University's 8/3/09 news release here.
    • A copy of a letter from Chancellor Birgeneau to Berkeley City Council is available in pdf format here.

  • July 2009 - BELLA: Save Strawberry Canyon submitted two comments on the BELLA project to UC Berkeley in July 2009: You can read PDF copies of the July 14 letter and the July 24 letter.

  • July 5, 2009: Save Strawberry Canyon sent a letter to UC Berkeley questioning whether they had included sufficient analysis of greenhouse gases that would be produced by their proposed development of Strawberry Canyon. You can read a pdf copy of that letter here.

  • May 11, 2008: Dr. Garniss Curtis, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley, sent a Letter to the UC Regents explaining the unstable geological conditions of the hills to the east of the campus and strongly recommended that "Major buildings of any kind should not be constructed in either of these canyons bordering this huge block of unstable rock."

  • May 7, 2008: The Richmond City Council passed a Resolution No. 47-08 asking that the UC Regents decertify their environmental action reports for the proposed new buildings in the Strawberry Canyon area and consider the Richmond Field Station as an alternate site.

  • August, 2007: The Alameda County Superior Court case challenging the adequacy of Long Range Development Plan 2006 Environmental Impact Report is Jones et al. v. Regents of the University of California, Case No. RG07341224. This complaint was filed with the court in August, 2007. A summary of the case may be seen by entering the case number (RG07341224) at the court's website.

  • March, 2007: The Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste released two reports on the danger of toxic waste from the LBNL:

  • January 23, 2007: LBNL issues a news release about their "draft 2006 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP), which establishes a framework of land-use principles to guide the Lab's growth and other physical development through 2025." The plan and a related draft Environmental Impact Report are available at that can be accessed at Berkeley Lab's LRDP website.

  • LRDP: UC Berkeley's 2020 Long Range Development Plan documents, last updated in January 2005, include both the plan itself and the environmental impact reports. Another collection of LRDP documents is available from a Lawrence Berkeley Lab website.

  • CRT (part of LRDP): UC Berkeley's documents concerning the Computational Research and Theory (CRT) Facility are available at this UC Berkeley website.

  • HELIOS (part of the LRDP): According to this UC Berkeley website, the university is studying alternatives to the orginal proposal, and no Helios documents appear to be available online at this time.

  • A Study in Support of the 2020 Long Range Development Plan, Dec. 2002. (A PDF document.)

  • Strawberry Creek Management Plan, Prepared by Robert B. Charbonneau for the Office of Environmental Health and Safety, U.C. Berkeley, Dec. 1987.

  • "Strawberry Canyon, University of California, Berkeley: A Land Use and Vegetative Management Study", by Garret Eckbo & Associates for the Office of Architects & Engineers, June 1976. Available at the U.C. Berkeley Enviromental Design Library. (Not available online.)

 

Articles

  • January 2010. Naturalist Phila Rogers has several stories on the Lawrence Hall of Science website:
  • January 22, 2010. "Will Berkeley Be the Next Haiti?" Steven Newton, a project director for the National Center for Science Education, for the Huffington Post.
  • August 20, 2009. "Environmentalists Force New Review of LBNL's Proposed Computer Lab." Richard Brenneman for the Berkeley Daily Planet.
  • July 9, 2009. "Battle Over LBNL Computer Center Heads for Key Court Hearing." Richard Brenneman for the Berkeley Daily Planet.
  • April 2, 2009 "Chu Boosts Berkeley Lab Projects; Foes Fear Strawberry Canyon Impacts." (Covers the site of the proposed General Purpose Laboratory and the controversy surrounding it.) Richard Brenneman for the Berkeley Daily Planet.
  • March 20, 2009. "Judge Delays UC's Computer Research Center." Bob Egelko for the San Francisco Chronicle.
  • February 04, 2009. "East Bay Then and Now: Berkeleyan Torrey Owned Duchamp's Most Famous Painting." Daniella Thompson for the Berkeley Daily Planet.
  • January 21, 2009 "LBNL: Move West Berkeley Biolabs to New Building on Hill." (Covers a public meeting about the General Purpose Laboratory.) Richard Brenneman for the Berkeley Daily Planet.
  • January 13, 2009. "Reshaped HELIOS Building Sparks Further Criticism." Richard Brenneman for the Berkeley Daily Planet.
  • December 3, 2008. "Biofuels Lab Threatens Strawberry Canyon." Robert Gammon for the East Bay Express.
  • August 21, 2008. "Strawberry Canyon: Nature Right Next Door." by Phila Rogers for the Berkeley Daily Planet.
  • Four Articles by Naturalist Joe Eaton in his "Wild Neighbors" Column for The Berkeley Daily Planet
    • April 15, 2008. "Wild Neighbors: Strawberry Canyon and UC's Edifice Complex."
    • April 22, 2008. "Wild Neighbors: Part 2."
    • May 01, 2008. "Wild Neighbors: UC and Strawberry Canyon: The Harvestman Paradox."
    • May 15, 2008. "Wild Neighbors: UC and Strawberry Canyon: Last Round for the Whipsnake?"
  • Dec, 2007. "Strawberry Canyon- A Cultural Landscape at a Crossroads." by Janice Thomas for the Sierra Club Yodeler.
  • January 26, 2007 "Berkeley LRDP Released." by Richard Brenneman for The Berkeley Daily Planet.
  • January 23, 2007. "East Bay Then and Now: Sierra Club Pioneers lived near Pre-Stadium Strawberry Canyon." by Daniella Thompson for The Berkeley Daily Planet.
  • January 21, 2005 "Regents Approve UC Berkeley LRDP." by Matthew Artz for The Berkeley Daily Planet.
  • November 21, 2003. "Lab Growth Threatens Strawberry Canyon Site." by Janice Thomas for The Berkeley Daily Planet.
  • "Strawberry Canyon and the UC Botanical Garden." by Phila Rogers
  • "Strawberry Canyon Over the Years." by Phila Rogers.
  • Older Articles:
    • May 5, 1943. "Additional Notes on the Birds of a Berkeley Hillside." by Amelia Sanborn Allen for The Condor.
    • February 11, 1915. "Birds of a Berkeley Hillside." by Amelia Sanborn Allen for The Condor.

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