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Photos: storm damage, PG&E outage map | Historic Asian American bookshop closing | Remembering Lillia Bartlow

East Bay Regional Park District

Posted inNature

3 big studies on East Bay’s creatures, plants and wildfire risk

Avatar photo by Kate Darby Rauch Sept. 13, 2022, 12:47 p.m.September 14, 2022

A first-of-its-kind analysis looked at the health of East Bay wildlife, from bats to bobcats and salamanders to steelhead. Two major mapping projects will dive deep into vegetation and wildfire hazard.

Posted inFire

Parks throughout the East Bay hills will close Sunday, Monday due to fire risk

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok Sept. 02, 2022, 2:08 p.m.September 5, 2022

The East Bay Regional Park District is closing 40 parks in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, including Tilden and Wildcat and Claremont canyons, amid this weekend’s heat wave.

Posted inCommunity

New rock garden opens in Tilden

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok Aug. 25, 2022, 12:15 p.m.August 25, 2022

The small rock garden, highlighting native alpine plants from the high Sierra Nevada, opened on Saturday in the Tilden botanic garden.

Firefighters on road with smoke in the background
Posted inCrime & Safety

Roads closed for Fourth of July due to fire danger in Berkeley

Avatar photo by Iris Kwok July 01, 2022, 4:03 p.m.August 4, 2022

Fireworks remain prohibited, and several roads and parking lots commonly used as viewpoints for Fourth of July celebrations in the Berkeley Hills will be closed to vehicles.

Posted inArts

Illicit concert series goes legit, but secret maps and moonlit merriment are here to stay

Laura Casey by Laura Casey April 20, 2022, 4:48 p.m.April 20, 2022

A Berkeley composer has been organizing hike-in covert concerts since 2018. Last weekend, blessed with city funding, he hosted Moonstruck’s first legal performance.

Posted inNature

Brickyard Cove, Berkeley’s new park with a view of the Bay, opens to the public

Laura Casey by Laura Casey March 26, 2022, 4:59 p.m.August 4, 2022

A park with sweeping views, wildflowers and wildlife has opened near the Berkeley Marina along University Avenue.

Posted inCommunity

What to do about Jewel Lake? Leave it, dredge it or route the creek around it?

Laura Casey by Laura Casey Oct. 28, 2021, 4:45 p.m.August 4, 2022

With sediment building up, the future of the Tilden Park lake is now being decided.

Posted inObituaries

Remembering Tilden’s ‘Ranger Tim,’ who hooted at owls and bent eucalyptus into jungle gyms

by Donna Mickleson and Megan Turner Oct. 11, 2021, 6:12 a.m.August 4, 2022

Tim Gordon guided generations of Tilden’s Junior Rangers and Ranger Rovers through the wilds of the forest.

Posted inFire

East Bay park district disputes fire agency’s effort to dictate wildfire management policy

by Nick Marnell/Bay City News Sept. 22, 2021, 8:30 a.m.August 4, 2022

The Moraga-Orinda Fire District has cited the East Bay Regional Park District for code violations, but does it have authority to do so?

Posted inCrime & Safety

The big picture: Wildfire danger, risk and history in Berkeley

Avatar photo by Kate Darby Rauch Sept. 10, 2021, 10:32 a.m.September 10, 2021

How dangerous are wildfires? What’s the history of wildfires? What activities are dangerous during fire season? What apps can help?

Posted inCommunity

Coyote bounty earns reproach for Berkeley man whose cat got eaten

Avatar photo by Kate Darby Rauch Aug. 17, 2021, 6:00 p.m.August 4, 2022

Coyote sightings are flooding social media, though pet killings are down this year in Berkeley. Many wildlife experts agree: Coyotes will adapt, and we’ll have to learn to live with them.

Posted inNature

Hungry deer, shrinking ponds, speeding golf balls: the drought’s toll around Berkeley

Avatar photo by John Metcalfe Aug. 15, 2021, 9:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

Strawberry Creek and the city’s trees are doing OK, but Lake Anza is unswimmable, turtles are getting run over by cars and wild pigs may be moving in.

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