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SAVE STRAWBERRY CANYON
Save Strawberry Canyon is a citizens’ group that seeks to preserve and protect the watershed lands and cultural landscape of Strawberry Canyon. Save Strawberry Canyon was formed out of the urgent need to take action in response to the threat of intrusive, inappropriate development on the Canyon lands. 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 San Francisco Bay. The Canyon itself with its streamside vegetation, oak-bay woodlands, grasslands, and surrounding slopes, is arich 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. — Mission Statement
December 15, 2009
Paul Alivisatos, Director
Re: Fence Removal on Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Property Dear Dr. Alivisatos: Thank you for meeting with representatives of the Save Strawberry Canyon Board of Directors. Indeed, we share an interest in the wisest, best use of the LBNL site. At this time of general discussion regarding land use, we wish to make a formal inquiry regarding the fencing that currently surrounds the LBNL site. The chain-link fencing is not only obvious to the casual traveler and hiker in the Canyon, but it appears to run up into the wildest areas, even along streamlets and creek beds. This would seem to be an opportune time to discuss and re-evaluate the negative impacts that the fences have upon the area’s wildlife. As we all know, the LBNL site is in a critical location for wildlife, as well as being connected to wildlife corridors that extend into the East Bay Regional Park District and beyond. At this time it is our request to engage you in discussion about the question of fence removal.
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