Rip-Rap Rehab Begins
The rip-rap rehab project got underway May 28 with only a week’s delay past the May 21 scheduled start date.
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Rip-Rap Rehab
City engineers have pulled permits and found money to repair the rip rap slope along parts of the eastern shoreline
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Checking Out the Rip-Rap Job
The rip-rap rehab job is over, all but the landscape repair and the tidying up. A rusting bucket from a
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Rip-Rap Concludes
In the second week of the rip-rap rehab project in the park, workers laid down heavy cloth over the old
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Rip-Rap Music
The roar of diesel engines. the crash of rocks. and the whistle of backup beepers make up the sound track
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Rip-Rap Day 2
One of our favorite stories when I was reading to my kids at bedtime was Mike Mulligan and His Steam
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Spring Babies
On the western ridge of the park, in the middle of a triangular crossroads of busy paths, some with truck
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April Bloomers
Invigorated by days of showers and days of sunshine, the park spilled a great big cornucopia of blooms in April
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Spring Spruce-up
Last week the dilapidated orange plastic construction fence finally disappeared, and various wood and metal fixtures along the east side
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Is It Spring?
It certainly isn’t Spring by the calendar, but these Narcissus (a.k.a. daffodil, jonquil) bloom to a different drummer. They’ve been
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Heads Should Roll
Once again the end-of-year high tide has flooded the walkway in front of the hotel. The Mallards are happy, but
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Seeds of Beauty
Eight UC Berkeley undergraduates powered your Chavez Park Conservancy’s “Weed and Seed” project Saturday morning October 26, as part of
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Fixing the Fence
The orange plastic construction fence that the rip-rap rehab contractor put up in July was needing some work. A few
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Weed & Seed Day 10/26
Updated October 16 The Berkeley Project, a group that brings UC Berkeley students as volunteers into Berkeley community endeavors, is
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Welcome Ruderals
I learned the word “ruderals” when I started looking at the plants in the park. It turns out that a
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Amazing Save
This exceptionally red California Poppy amazingly survived the rip-rap rehab job, so far. With soil torn up above it and
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Flora Friday: Even More Species
Little Robin Yet another geranium! Wikipedia has almost nothing on this plant, but the Cal Invasive Plant Council says Geranium
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Just in Time
Just in time for the Memorial Day weekend crowds, Parks staff members replaced BBQ fixtures at two picnic areas. The
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Owl Diary: Feb. 24 – Mar. 2
Saturday March 2 2019 After a heavy night of downpours, the morning cleared up. At around 11 a.m. the east
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