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UC Continues to Ignore Berkeley Environmental Law that Protects Native Oaks After months of rallies, protests, and other attempts to save the grove of 42 mature oak trees west of the Memorial Stadium, we took to the trees on December 2, 2006. Coast Live Oaks are the primary woodland ecosystem of the
east bay and a central part of what defines our region. In
fact these native trees are so important that several years
ago Berkeley passed a law forbidding their destruction. Under the law, which is called the Berkeley Coast Live Oak
Moratorium, it is illegal to cut down any mature Coast Live
Oak within the Berkeley city limits which measures over six
inches in diameter at chest height.
Every one of the 42 threatened oaks in the Memorial Grove
should be protected from destruction under the Berkeley
moratorium, but the University has stated that because UC
is part of state government, they are “not obliged to obey
local environmental laws.”
Do they need to cut down the oaks because the stadium is unsafe?
UC is claiming that they must build a training facility at
the oak grove to move people out of Memorial Stadium. But
that is simply not true, in fact UC already has the ability
to move people out of the stadium before building a new
facility.
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The DONORS who gave millions to build this new athletic training facility and the ADMINISTRATORS who see this as the only feasible way to get money for a stadium retrofit. They are selling all of us short.

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Beautiful poster of the grove....

Go to: http://jackphoto.com/images/tree/berkeley.html..>   ..> ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:58:00 GMT

Awesome Naked Action

Photographer Jack Gescheidt is famous for taking pictures of naked people amidst trees. He did a shoot at the Oak Grove last weekend to support the cause. Detective Wade of the UCPD called him in adva...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:18:00 GMT

Athletes versus hippies? Wrong!

Some in the administration and in the media have tried to reduce this issue to a conflict between those who value sports and those who value nature. If anything, athletes are more likely than the gene...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:07:00 GMT

Student newspaper doesn't get it.

... there is something sad and cynical about the fact that the UC Berkeley student newspaper buys the rhetoric put out by the university that this is somehow an outsider movement, not something driven...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:36:00 GMT

University hasn't even ESTIMATED the cost of the retrofit!

East Bay Express points out the elephant.... nothing in the world will plug up the Hayward Fault, and in an earthquake, the stadium, however seismically reinforced, could potentially sink into the ear...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:07:00 GMT

Oak Grove May be Native American Burial Site

This article appeared in Tuesday's issue of the Berkeley Daily Planet....Oak Grove May Be Native American Burial Site By Richard Brenneman Rediscovered evidence of Native American b...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:14:00 GMT

UC Administration Talks to Friendly Audiences Only

... Assurances that "experts" have developed this plan.... New website for propoganda desemination.... None of these folks are offering to talk to the opposition.... None of these folks are offering t...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:42:00 GMT

READ THIS: Police Raid Imminent

... News from the ground. The police informed the protesters today that if the grove weren't cleared and people didn't come down from the trees, the area would be fenced off and the tree-sits removed....
Posted by on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:38:00 GMT

Why are we still in the trees? B/c UC still wants to cut them down!!!

The Daily Californian .. begin page specific --> Stadium Injunction Terms Debated BY Sona Arutyunyan Contribution Writer Friday, February 9, 2007...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:26:00 GMT

Engineering 'energy independence'... but still not owning the real issues

..>Yowza. UC Berkeley won $40 million to develop new biofuels. Can we really engineer our way out of global warming, even if we continue to be short-sighted with our development projects? Or is this j...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:14:00 GMT