Park Events
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) Trifecta of Bad Manners This past Friday, the day before yesterday, I was walking up toward
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Dog Owners
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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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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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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Owl in 2021
The Burrowing Owl in the Nature Area on the north side of the park has been playing hide-and-go-seek with its
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Leash Your Damn Dog – It’s A Pandemic
By Carol Denney “In epidemiology, a disease vector is any agent which carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another
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All Dogs on Leash: Parks
According to a Berkeleyside story just posted, the East Bay Regional Parks district has mandated that all dogs in its
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New Dog Poop Bags
The City has been installing new dog poop bag dispensers in all parks, and Cesar Chavez Park’s turn came yesterday.
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Fence Progress, But
The Tri-City Fence Co. work crew has made big progress on the boundary fence between the dog park and the
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Conservancy Annual Report 2019
The Chavez Park Conservancy has released its Annual Report 2019. A PDF copy is attached. The report covers activities by
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Signs Are Not Enough
Park management deserves applause for finally addressing some of the long-standing gaps in boundary signage for the dog park (“off-leash
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Sign of Confusion
When it comes to sending mixed messages — a problem with several of the new signs that I’ve reviewed separately
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Owl, Hunted
A park visitor on Friday morning saw a shepherd-type dog flushing a Burrowing Owl that was hidden in the Nature
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Didn’t Look Up
Responding to criticism both verbal and physical, the Park administration yesterday staked a second thin blue line near the southern
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Dog Park Expands
The long-awaited effort to mark the boundaries of the dog park (a/k/a Off Leash Area) got off to a false
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No Sanctuary
The decorative fence that marks the intended Burrowing Owl Sanctuary on the northeast corner of the park proved ineffective once
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Please Protect the Owls
I was standing outside the fence around the Burrowing Owl Sanctuary, filming a ground squirrel digging up and eating buried
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Heron Flees, Scores
As I watched, a Great Blue Heron flew in from the North Basin and landed on the grass near the
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Dog Baron Visit
His or Her Highness the Dog Baron was in the park again and took the trouble — for which we
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The Dog Barons
I received this message from a park visitor, David D.: My partner Leigh and I … had numerous problems with
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Signs of Ineptitude
The word is out that Parks management is finally going to Do Something about the pathetic condition of the Off
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Irresponsible Dog Owners Leave Their Marks
Irresponsible Dog Owners (IDOs) leave their marks in the park, whether they realize it or not. Two recent cases in
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ACS (Almost) Collars Another
Berkeley’s Animal Control Services Officer Daniela Wong collared at least one dog owner this morning and warned her that she
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More Dogs on Owl
Dogs owned by irresponsible persons intrude on the Burrowing Owl on the north side of Cesar Chavez Park almost daily.
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