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 formed out of the urgent need to take action in response to the threat of intrusive, inappropriate development on the Canyon lands.

The Strawberry Canyon watershed, opposite the Golden Gate, is a unique link to the East Bay Regional Park district lands and, by its streams and views, to the San Francisco Bay. The canyons, with their streamside vegetation, oak-bay woodlands, grasslands, and surrounding slopes, form a rich repository of wildlife 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 at more suitable sites, and to promote better public access to the beautiful watershed lands with their wildlife and scenic resources.

Ladybugs in the Canyon — Gerry Brush Ladybugs often over-winter as adults in large swarms under fallen leaves or bark, sometimes coming out into the open together. In some areas they may migrate for winter cover and travel long distances.

LATEST NEWS
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December 14 - Diesel Discharge in Strawberry Creek. Read about it and watch video at indybay.org (be sure to read this comment), insidebayarea.com, and berkeleyside.com or browse this Google search.

Alarming News! We learned that our efforts to challenge LBNL's plans for the Computational Research and Theory Facility (CRT) received an adverse ruling in federal court...read more here.

December 13 - hike throught the canyon. The Greenbelt Alliance website has posted a description of a 6-mile hike through Strawberry Canyon, which includes an account of the history of the canyon and the creek — here.

October 27 - Earthquakes on the Hayward Fault: A 3.6 earthquake occurred on the Hayward Fault at 5:36 a.m. today, the most recent in a series. See a brief report in the Mercury-News, comments by a local seismologist at the Concord Patch, and this 2008 letter by a local geologist warning of the danger to University buildings.

September 28 - Legal Update:
CRT: On August 31, 2011 Save Strawberry Canyon filed a final brief [341K PDF] and a request for judicial notice [1.1MB PDF]. A hearing is scheduled for October 20, 2011.

September 26 - Legal Updates:
SERC: A hearing was held September 2 on our petition — a ruling is expected within a month.
BELLA: We filed an appellant's opening trail brief in our appeal of the previous Court decision on this project

Atop A Volcano...Our first music video, is on YouTube. See it on our video page and sing along with us. Don't forget to share the link with your friends.

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