Dear Rashi: I am horrified
Dear Rashi: I have been receiving daily postings about Cesar Chavez park for quite a while, about the migratory bird
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Issues
A Very Bad Idea
To council@cityofberkeley.info I am a 83 year old woman who walks a few times a week around Chavez park. I
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Dear Susan Wengraf
Dear Council member Wengraf ~ I have belatedly heard of the bizarre idea to monetize César Chavez Park with event
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Butterflies and Budgets: Parks Commission Meets
The Parks, Recreation and Waterfront Commission’s session last night strained to find a middle ground between protection of endangered butterflies
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A Respite from Craziness
Dear Sophie Hahn, Good afternoon, thank you for your stand on Berkeley police and explaining what the real needs are for
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PowerPoint Gone
The City’s new website for the Berkeley Marina Area Specific Plan (BMASP) no longer lists the PowerPoint that proposed turning
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Heron, Gopher, Dog
As a photographer, I was lucky. The Great Blue Heron stalked slowly westward on the meadow in the southeast corner
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Op-Ed: Save Chavez Park
Berkeleyside, the free local online daily, yesterday published my op-ed titled “The Berkeley Marina Plan Would Destroy Cesar Chavez Park.”
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BMASP: Park Wrecking Scheme
I’ve been negligent in keeping up with the Berkeley Marina development plans coming out of City offices. Back in January,
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Hope for Pollinators
There’s more hope for threatened pollinators in Chavez Park now, thanks to an application filed today with the Alameda County
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Outside Reading
Some interesting material has popped up on the web recently that may be of interest to nature lovers. The cultural
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Native Plant Guidelines
A proposal to prioritize native plants on all City property is coming to Berkeley City Council. Councilmember Terry Taplin, elected
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Heavy Machinery
Since I was a kid I loved to watch construction work in progress. When I became a Dad I loved
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Still Here
There are still park visitors who express their thrill and satisfaction at seeing a Burrowing Owl for the first time
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Healing Nature
The meadow on the north side of the park is a “Protected Natural Area.” That’s by the authority of Berkeley
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This is Site Service?
Kudos to United Site Services for promptly replacing the porta-potty in the dog park, toppled by Sunday’s atmospheric river storm.
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Work Done and To Do
The Peace Symbol on the northwest corner hilltop of the park suffered damage a few weeks ago when someone pulled
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AB or HAB?
The waters on the east side of the park have been covered in recent days with a bloom of green
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City Kills Native Plant Study
The Chavez Park Conservancy won a grant last year from the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s office to conduct a study of
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Parking Hogs
I don’t have a problem if somebody wants to spend $100,000++ for a boat, a trailer, and a pickup for
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Flight Don’t Fight
The Great Egret has the size and the weapons to gouge a charging dog’s eyes out. But here it chose
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