Spring 2012 Newsletter

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Presidents Messageby L. Tim Wallace

A COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION SUPPORTING THE LONG-TERM STEWARDSHIP OF CLAREMONT CANYON

SPRING 2012 News

HIKERS ON LAST DECEMBERS nature walk led by Tom Klatt enjoy the new redwood bench commemorating friendly cooperation between UC and the Conservancy. The bench sits at the entrance to the re trail on UCs property in the upper canyon. Founding Sponsors Ray and Marie Alberti are pictured standing on the right

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THE OTHER DAY, while driving through Claremont Canyon on my way to Orinda, I was impressed by the amount of maintenance and repair work that has recently been done in the canyon. In the two miles of roadway between the Claremont Hotel and the Four Corners intersection, trafc was being controlled in two places by agmen wearing bright yellow safety vests and holding handheld stop signs. Work crews were trimming roadside trees and clearing away rocks and soil that had washed down onto the pavement dur-ing our recent rainstorms. Tree trimmers were using high-rise, truck-mounted cranes to trim tree branches that had begun to lean out over the road.

Another recent piece of work in the canyon resulted in a 100-foot-long wooden railing that the Claremont Canyon Conservancy designed and built in an effort to discourage illegal roadside dumping (see page 5). At almost the same time, the City of Oakland installed a whole set of new steel guardrails replacing those old, rusty, battered guard rails that lined the road for years. The City of Oakland also recently corrected a road-related water-runoff situation that had been

neglected for years and that was threatening to cause a serious erosion problem south of Four Corners.

Tom Klatt of the University and volunteers from the Conservancy including the U.C. Forestry Club recently worked together to place a big redwood-log bench near Sign Post 29 on University property (pictured below and on page 6). The bench invites people to pause and enjoy the viewa charming, sunrise-oriented look at the Universitys land in the upper canyon. Hand-carved lettering on the back of the bench celebrates the ongoing, cooperative relation-ship between the University and the Conservancy. The trailhead for another cooperative venturethe newly built Willow Trailis nearby.

Well never know exactly how and why this burst of activity came about, but we cant help wonder-ing if the public agencies that own land in Claremont Canyon would have stepped up in the way they have if the Claremont Canyon Conservancy did not exist. Maybe, just maybe, our presence and our practical, on-the-ground support for intelligent management of the canyon has made a difference. In any case, after years of neglect, the canyon is now being better cared for. We appreciate the trend.

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DID YOU KNOW THAT CALIFORNIA has been invaded by aliens? Its true, and its been going on for a few centuries. Invasive aliensspecies from other parts of the globeare present in every habitat in the East Bay, whether we are aware of it or not.

These oral and faunal imports have dramatically changed the way the landscape appears and functions. Many cause serious problems, such as mustard, fennel, artichoke thistle, and French broom overtaking grasslands and shrublands. These invasions are not going unnoticed. Numerous groups of do-gooders are tackling the enor-mous task of ridding (or at least reducing) the unwanted freeloaders from our natural ecosystems.

Recently, foraging for freebie food has become a hot, trendy activity. Folks who savor time spent in the great outdoors are roaming the land, harvesting delectables to provision their larders and tables. Some even sell the goodies to fancy restaurants. Astute foragers know to steer clear of endangered species, and many are now going a step further and joining the ranks of invasivores forag-ing for an even greater good. Imagine capping a day of work restoring a meadow with a dinner from the days accomplishments! Many of the nonnative species are

delicious; some are commercially cultivated for sale in our markets. Foraging for these edible nonnative invasives benets not only our dining tables but also our natural ecosystems. For example, lets look at mustard.

Mustard plants grow six to eight feet tall through the summer. Their dark green leaves are shaped like broad spears with wavy edges. Plants often grow in pure patches that can extend to an acre or more. Ground squirrels tend these patches, caching the seeds in burrows, ensuring that the mustard will sprout year after year. Mustard, in return, offers the squirrels cover from winged prey species. Human foragers can limit the spread of the species by removing individual plants outside the main population. Larger and more organized efforts are needed to remove entire patches.

All above ground portions of mustard plants are edible, although when the stems get woody they are best discarded. The greens are best harvested early in the year, when the raw leaves can add a spicy note to salads. As the plants mature in March and April, the leaves are better cooked. Like those of their leafy brassica cousinscollards and arugula for instancethe leaves of wild mustard marry well with bacon and vinegar avors. The owers can add a visual and spicy punch to a salad. Wild mustard seeds can be collected later in the spring, and with skill and patience, can be used to make a mustard condiment just like the one you put on your hot dog.

Foraging Safely and Legally: Always consult a good guide to make a positive identication of the things you are foraging. While many wild species can provide good nutrition, others can be hazardous or deadly by virtue of their chemistry or by their location. Some species are protected by law, so know what you are going after and whether it can be foraged

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OUR LOCAL FIRESAFE COUNCIL, known as the Diablo Fire Safe Council, a non-prot group directed by Cheryl Miller is busy putting nal touches on a plan for fuel reduction and other wildre hazard reduction programs in Alameda County.

The plan is a collaborative effort among many parties, including neighborhood groups and city, county and federal agencies. The plan serves several purposes, including meet-ing a federal requirement for receipt of federal grant funds. Its amazing that this is the only wildre protection plan that has ever been developed for all of Alameda County, says Jerry Kent, a veteran of the East Bay Regional Park District and a Claremont Canyon Conservancy board mem-ber. It contains sound advice for the residents of Claremont Canyon and the region. Jerry participated in the 18-month review process with an eye to what is most cost effective, sustainable and environmentally sensitive among the proj-ects.

The plan has just undergone its nal draft review with nal signatures due by the end of May. The Community Wildre Protection Plan will continue as an ongoing col-laborative effort with annual project updates.

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(Carol Rice is a Conservancy member and re ecologist who has worked in most of the Bay Areas open spaces. She and colleagues Cheryl Miller and Ken Blonski were presenters at our most recent Annual Meeting. The watercolor below is by Cheryl Miller, Executive Director of the Diablo Fire Safe Council. This article is excerpted with kind permission from Edible East Bay, a quarterly magazine that celebrates local foods. For a copy of Edible East Bay with Ms. Rices full article including additional alien species, recipes and illustra-tions, visit Star Grocery, Market Hall or Mrs. Dalloways.)

Foraging for the Greater Good: Why and how to target invasive aliens by Carol Rice

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

BIRDERS PAUSE ALONG THE NEW WILLOW TRAIL on last Decembers bird walk. Though few birds were spotted during this part of the walk, our little group (including l. to r., Dave Quady, Ray and Sharon Johnston, and Sandy Steinman) enjoyed the bare, lichen-covered willow branches of winter and found a lone jawbone, later identied as belonging to an opossum. For a list of birds found on this walk, a precursor to the Christmas bird count, check our Nature and Culture blog on our website. Come join this springs bird walk on May 12, described on this page.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR SPRING SERIES of nature walks and work parties in Claremont Canyon. Work parties occur twice a month in Garber Park (rst Tuesday and third Saturday) in collaboration with Oaklands Garber Park Stewards, and once a month elsewhere in the canyon (second Saturday) led by Jon Kaufman in collaboration with Tom Klatt of UC and Jeff Manley of the Park District. Be sure to check our website for updates and addi-tions, or contact us to get on our emailing list.

Work dates for Garber Park are May 2 & 19 and June 5 & 16. Meet at the Evergreen entrance, 10 AM-noon. Work dates for elsewhere in the canyon are May 12 and June 9. Unless otherwise specied, meet at UC signpost 29 on the north side of Claremont Avenue, about one-half mile uphill from the Alvarado Road intersection, 10 AM-noon.

When venturing into the canyon, it is good to wear long sleeves, long pants, stur-dy shoes and a hat. Vegetation volunteers should also bring gloves. Please RSVP to GarberParkStewards@gmail.com for Garber Park events and to info@ClaremontCanyon.org for all other events.

May 12Bird Walk with Dave Quady and Kay LoughmanMeet at 7 a.m. at Four Corners (intersection of Grizzly Peak Blvd. with Claremont Ave./Fish Ranch Rd.) to look for some of the birds that breed in Claremont Canyon. Well pick an area that looks interesting, and search until about 11 a.m. for year-round resident birds as well as the neotropical migrant birds that have returned to breed. Bring binoculars if you have a pair (Dave will have a few pairs to share) and a eld guide if you have one.

For something different, meet Kay and Dave at 5 a.m. at the foot of Gelston Street to enjoy the dawn chorus, as breeding birds break into song before the sun rises. We will stand quietly and try to identify birds by their songs until about 6:30, leaving enough time to get a quick breakfast snack before our 7 a.m. meeting at the top of the canyon.

If its raining on Saturday morning, well try again Sunday morning, May 13, same times, same places. Please check the website for last minute updates.

Claremont Canyon is the largest relatively undeveloped canyon on the western slope of the Oakland/BerkeleyHills. Most of the canyons watershed is owned bythe East Bay Regional Park District, the University ofCalifornia, the East Bay Municipal Utility District and the City of Oakland, with about one-fth in private hands.

The Claremont Canyon Conservancy promotes the long-term stewardship of the entire watershed, coordinated among the stakeholders to preserve or restore a healthy native ecosystem, reduce wildre hazards, and foster education and research.

Join the Conservancy:Founding Sponsor: $1,000 over 10 years.Family Membership: $50 per year.Student or Limited Income: $25 per year.

Contact Us:PO Box 5551, Berkeley CA 94705, 510-843-2226Email: info@ClaremontCanyon.orgWebsite: www.ClaremontCanyon.org

The Board of Directors: L.Tim Wallace, President;Joe Engbeck, Vice President; Barry Pilger, Treasurer; Marilyn Goldhaber, Secretary; Shelagh Brodersen, Steve Holtzman, Jon Kaufman, Jerry Kent, and Dick White, Members at Large.

The Claremont Canyon Conservancy News is edited by Marilyn Goldhaber and Joe Engbeck.

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A Busy Spring for Garber Park by Shelagh Brodersen

THE PAST FEW MONTHS have been especially good for Garber Park restoration efforts: In December, in celebration of the second anniversary of the Garber Park Stewards, Lech Naumovich, Golden Hour Restoration Institute, once again led us in planting na-

tives on the hillside at the Evergreen Lane entrance. We had a fantastic show-ing of volunteers to help us put more than 200 seedlings in the ground. At last years successful restoration planting we created ve restoration beds. This years planting was more free form, ll-ing in the spaces between

the planting beds. Like last year, we will conduct maintenance to ensure successful growth, and native seed collection to assist us in next years planting. This years planting party, like last years, was a collaboration of the Garber Park Stewards, Golden Hour Restoration Institute, and Claremont Canyon Conservancy.

2012 began with a notable achievement: the completion of the Measure DD Proj-ect along the riparian corridor of Harwood Creek. In 2002 Oakland voters passed Mea-sure DD, a $198.25 million bond measure for better parks and cleaner water. Funded

projects include parks, trails, bridges, a recreation center, historic building renovations, land acquisition, and creek restoration. Garber Parks Harwood Creek was on the list for funding.

The successful completion of this project was a tribute to the collabo-ration of many individuals and groups: Rebecca Tuden, City of Oakland Watershed Specialist, the Research and Design Group who designed the project, the Garber Park Stewards, Golden Hour Restoration and other community members spent countless hours working to achieve a successful project. Thanks to Four Dimensions Landscape, which skillfully imple-mented the project.

Our dedicated volunteers continue to make improvements at our twice-monthly workdays, shoring up the trail for easier walking, improv-ing safety, pulling French broom, vinca, poison hemlock and other invasive weeds, cleaning up the trash and debris along Claremont Avenue, and hosting several school groups whose energy has helped us make signicant dents in the poison hemlock and Cape ivy. In April, we also participated in the City of Oaklands Earth Day cleanup, weeding out the invasives that threaten the newly planted natives along Harwood Creek.

The Garber Park Stewards began in December, 2009, with a vision that Garber Park was 13 acres worth protectingand that our major goal was reducing the risk of wildre while protecting the natural woodland re-sources of Garber Park. In the Spring of 2010 we began consulting with the City of Oakland Wildre Prevention Assessment District on the need for a comprehensive fuel reduction and management plan. After two years of planning and advocacy, the Garber Park Fuel Management Plan is a reality. By the time you read this newsletter, implementation should have begun.

Based on what has become known as the Beaconseld Model, the Garber Park Fuel Reduction and Management Plan is a multi-year, year-round program that includes a botanist to assist with proper removal of invasive species, thus ensuring environmentally sensitive techniques are used while managing vegetation to reduce the risk of a major re.

To learn more about Garber Park and all of our habitat restoration efforts and workshops, visit our blog: www.garberparkstewards.blogspot.com. As we move into the summer months we will continue our twice-monthly workdays: the rst Tuesday and the third Saturday of the month, as well as seed collection walks. We look forward to seeing you soon in this little gem of a park.

DECEMBER PLANTING in Garber Park (above) with Chinook brome (Bromus laevipes) waiting to be planted (top picture).

Sudden Oak Death Pathogen in Garber ParkSUDDEN OAK DEATH (SOD) is a serious disease that has killed millions of oaks and tanoaks in Northern California. In April of 2011, we participated in the Sudden Oak Death Blitz conducted by Dr. Matteo Garbelotto of UC Berkeley. Unfortunately, several positive bay leaf samples from last years blitz came back positive, and subsequent on-site consultation with Garbelottos lab conrmed several oaks infected with the sudden oak death pathogen.

Upon hearing the sad and potentially devastating news of the presence of SOD in Garber we have taken a pro-active approach to nd the best remedies to stop the spread of the disease in Garber. We have been seeking the opinion, experience, and advice of those professionals who have followed and studied the spread of the SOD pathogen.

This April, Lech Naumovich conducted a workshop in Garber on the identication and possible next steps we will be taking in the park. At the end of April we will once again participate in the SOD blitz, our goal being to survey the entire park so we can get a clear picture of the presence of the SOD pathogen, an important step in monitoring the success of our future measures to stop the spread of SOD.

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ILLEGAL DUMPING DETERRED: In past years, Claremont Canyon was often used as a dumping ground for small-time, y-by-night construction contractors and others who were not willing to pay the fees charged by ofcial dumps. Debris of all kindscar parts, plywood, plasterboard, empty paint cans, and even a few refrigerators and sofasended up

on the roadside or down in the creek bed below the road. One spot that was especially popular with the illegal dumping crowd was a wide spot in the road near University Sign Post 29 along Claremont Avenue. Illegal dumping continued there even after unpaid citizen volunteers associated with the Claremont Canyon Conservancy repeatedly climbed down the steep embankment and removed the accumulated junk.

To change that obnoxious and disheartening pattern of behavior, the Conservancy worked with Tom Klatt, the Universitys hill area land manager (top right in blue coveralls and right in blue vest), on a plan designed to simultaneously beautify the area and make it less attractive for dumping. Drilling services kindly donated in part by George Smith of Mad Dog Drilling. The result was a new 100-foot-long roadside railing designed to keep motor vehicles from crowding right up to the edge of the embankment. The railing was constructed by Barry Pilger (above) with help from Tom Klatt and Jerry Kent. Jon Kaufman and Joe Engbeck implemented the landscaping plan using locally-native plants: coast live oak, snowberry, coffeeberry, oso berry, alumroot, and pink-owering wild currant. The result? So far, so good. No dumping has occurred at the site since the Conservancy completed its work there.

The Upper Canyon Thrivesby Jon Kaufman

DRIVE UP CLAREMONT AVENUE past the rock chert on your left and pause at the gate at Sign Post 29 on your right. The vista from this point gives you a chance to see what the Conser-vancy has been doing to restore our canyon and make it ac-cessible to stewardship volunteers and hikers alike.

Our volunteers have been working with the University which owns this upper part of the canyon. Note the new bench where you can sit and enjoy the view. Eucalyptus trees were cleared from this area eight years ago and native oaks, willows and bays, along with shrubs and grasses, have come back in this restored open space that extends uphill all the way to Grizzly Peak Boulevard.

Note also the trails which have been improved with trail markers, steps and creek crossings to make them more acces-

sible for the less sure-footed among us. Additional steps are planned along with a map that we will post at the trailhead.

We look forward this year to approval from FEMA of an environmental impact statement which will release federal funds for removal of additional eucalyptus currently crowding out native vegetation on the opposite side of Claremont Avenue. Once these trees are removed, the Con-servancy will continue its partnership with the University to restore and open up that area as well.

This work could not be done without the generous support of Claremont Canyon Conservancy members. Your nancial contributions and your volunteer steward-ship efforts are making this possible and ensuring that this last relatively undeveloped canyon on the western slope of the Oakland-Berkeley Hills endures for us and for future generations to enjoy.

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Marilyn & Nat GoldhaberWilliam & Karen McClungKaren & Michael MeryashBarry Miller & Chris JohnsonDiane & Bill SchulzRay Lifchez & Judith StonachMartin HoldenKaren HoldenCharles & Yuri StevensPaul MishkinBetty CrolyKeith White & Leora BenioffCharles & Katherine BondShelterbelt Builders, Inc.University Press BooksLorraine ZimmermanMayower Day BrandtJoan & Frederick CollignonDavid Kessler & Nancy MennelNancy & Robert MuellerKlaus & Rike BurmeisterMatthew Morse & Susan MattmannAnn ArndtMarcia TannerWinsor Soule, Jr.Julie & Fred NachtweyGordon Reeve GouldJohn & Kay LymanElaine & Suzanne & Paul McGeeRick McGee & Shannon MillerPatricia & Roy HowlandSandra Brod & Dennis De DomenicoRobert ParenteauPeggy & Warren WincornMalcolm & Judy ScottTim & Marye Jayne WallaceFriends of Temescal CreekNora SmirigaElaine Cooper & Les GoldnerDavid & Beth TrachtenbergJule GordonQuentin HardyMarion BrennerTamia Marg & Tom AndersonJoe Engbeck & Sondra ReidWilsted & Taylor Publishing Vicente Canyon Neighborhood Assn.Berkeley Hills RealtyEric Anderson & Giancarlo VegaBeresford ParlettTroy DusterEd & Susan DembowskiElwin MargToni Garrett-FarbChris Pattison & Betsy CottonRobert & Susie GoodinJoshua & Beryl Bar-LevSusan HoneDouglas & Carmen Violich GoodinMichael & Nasa McGlynn.Myrtle & Thomas WolfNancy & Lewis VoilsPatricia & Mike MartinAnn-Elise & Daniel EmersonTanya GoldsmithRobert & Ann LynnGarrett Gruener & Amy SlaterMatthew & Jennifer Plunkett

Thornton & Victoria SargentLucy & Tim SmallsreedCarol KusmierskiJames & Jean SanfordCamille & Ed PenhoetRobert Blackburn & Ann SmulkaJanice ThomasJames & Tina HeldmanMark Headley & Christina PehlKatherine & Alan ReinkePanoramic Hill AssociationRichard WhiteCenter for Environmental StructureBev GoggioNorth Hills Phoenix AssociationGregory Pedemonte & Anne WagleyWilliam & Kay LawsonMarc & Vallery Feldman

Vicente Canyon Hillside FoundationSam Tabachnik & Sheli NanShelagh & Bob BrodersonWendy WilliamsLouise ClubbJohn Bongiovanni & Susan MillerJesse & Laren BrillGillian ServaisPeter Pster & Bonnie StackLaurel RobinsonJerome & Joy CarlinChuck & Bev PaganettiGregory & Joan GrossmanEvelyn & Gordon WozniakJudith & John RatcliffeNorman & Florence LindBruce & Madeline FeingoldBurl WillesRobert & Alva HerrBill & Nancy LeatzowJohn Torcassi & Nancy RaffBill Falik & Diana Cohen

John HammermanPolly ArmstrongFred & Alice FellerMary FishmanBurton Edwards & Lynne DalpoggettoSherrick SlatteryBarry Pilger & Catherine MossAfton CrooksCharles Baxter & Jinee TaoLedor Fine ArtPeter Jan HonigsbergRobert Sieben, MDJonathan & Christina WornickJanice & Lanny WeingrodRobert & Barbara BeetemJan & Luciano CorazzaSteven Berger & Paula HughmanickBob & Gail Schulz

Lynn HorowitzEdward SweetKim & Kazumi CranneyTim & Sari Cooper HenryCarolynn & Bob ZuparkoLaurie Brown SarachanPaul Abboud & Kristen SidellSteven McCanneTom & Indra KlattWalter GarmsJohn & Jane WeilDavid Clayton & Gayle DekellisClark HayAlice Agogino & Dale GieringerStephen Bomse & Edie SilberDonald & Alex PierceRalph Kaywin & Lisa BuchbergJohn & Calvin AdamsTeresa Ferguson & Peter ScottSusan MedakMarie & Ray AlbertiMaria & Scott Beamer

Marlene KnutsonKay & William LoughmanThomas Matson & William StuartJack Fitzsimmons & Walter GendellJoyce SasseLaura Mahanes & Steven WeissmanJack Robbins & Cynthia BrownElizabeth FarnsworthClaudine TorfsWalter RexRon & Holly MoskovitzDonald JacobusRosengarten-Horowitz FundMary Lee & Mike McCuneRita Brenner & Leonard SchwabEleanor & Norman MoscowLisa BruceThomas & Madeleine ShearerLawrence & Lois DahmsRick & Anns RestaurantKerruish Fund Mathew Ross & Gloria LawrenceSusan & James AcquistapaceBertram & Sue IzantNancy & Bill AlbertiPatricia & Ronald AdlerGeorge Ann GarmsAndrew Johnson & Elizabeth ShippeyClaremont Resort & SpaStar GroceryThe Musical Offering & CafHandsome BooksJerry Fiddler & Melissa AldenKaren Park & Red BirdRicardo ClarkeDiana RogersSharon SingerJack SawyerBill Manierre & Barbara HallMarian AltmanJulie ObbardVictor & Christine GoldJohn Dal PinoPhilip & Beverly DavisJonathan & Thelma DixonDaphne EdwardsJerry KentElena Eger & Marc BeyelerMark StumpRonald Berman & Sybil MarcusDaisy Reese & Peter ColeCarol RicePeter RosmarinShyan ChangGerry KeenanNathaniel & Suzanne CartmellLoretta & Frank SmithLinda Schacht & John GageJudith ZinkeEric Sloan & Elise ProulxJon Kaufman & Jill HorowitzPatricia AngellEric SloanGergely ZimanyiScott Wachter & Barbara MalinaCalvin TamFred Booker & Blythe MickelsonDave Quady

Founding Sponsors of the Claremont Canyon Conservancyin order as they joined, October 2001 through March 2012

CONSERVANCY VICE PRESIDENT JOE ENGBECK (left) sits on the new bench next to UCs Tom Klatt, volunteer Lynn Yamashita, Founding Sponsor Bill McClung, and our guest Friends of Five Creeks Executive Director Susan Schwartz. Photo by Marilyn Goldhaber 2011.

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Gerald AbramsLinda Agerter & Richard JuddLaura AndersonJeffrey Angell & Joan King-AngellGay & Alan AuerbachLinda & Mike BakerMelanie & Robert BellahBeverly Bense & Alan DimenDorothy BerndtDiana BersohnAdelie BischoffSteve BoothStephen & Naomi BornMartha BreedGordon & Wanda BronsonThomas & Tecoah BruceLorna & Warren ByrnePaul & Helen ChapmanJulie Chin & Warren ChiangJean Marie CircielloJohn CollRenate & Robert CoombsConstance & Robert CooperLaurie CraiseMichael Darby & Toni MartinStanley Dickover, Jr.Kathleen DittmerJamie & Monique DoesKevin DonahueLaurie Doyle & Sam GreysonJohn & Marlene EastmanPeter EngelhartKarin Evans & Mark HumbertSamuela EvansRichard & Martha FatemanDavid & Sara FleisigRobert ForthmanBosky FrederickWalter & Do FreemanSandra & Thomas FriedlandSheryl FullertonHeidi & Bruce GilliesAlan & Barbara GoldenbergAlan & Renee GoldhammerJohn & Virginia HadsellTimothy Hallahan

Barbara & Earl HamlinBlossom HofmannSteve HoltzmanJohn & Barbara HolzrichterMarian HuntoonBenjamin & Won HurCecelia HurwichBill & Madeline JayMary Jennings & Donald SarasonHerbert Johnson & Delia OHaraRaymond & Sharon JohnstonLeah Kaizer & David SalkJ.R.K KantorJoe KatzWalter KaufmannJimmy KilroyJane KollMary Lamprech & Mark RobinsonLinda LancioneLynn LandorPeter Lee & Barbara BakerJulie LehmanJacqueline LevinNoemi LevineSally Levinson & Doug DanielsGail LowryMary Kathryn Lynch & John Arnold GarganiBetty Marvin

Ms. Rani Marx, PHD, MPHAlex & Nancy MazetisJ. Bruce McCubbrey & June WileyMary Lee McCuneMary McDonaldDerek McGrealMichael & Susan MeadowsMark & Marjorie MedressRichard Meiss & Peter RudyDiane Meltzer & Leo BlauRoger MendelsonChristina & R. Michael MeyerAlice Meyers & Malcolm ZaretskyMatthew MitchellDr. Mia MochizukiWalter Moos & Susan MillerTito MoruzaShelley Nathans & Sam GersonPeter NussbaumJulio OzoresAndy Peay & Ami SchiessAndrea PaumerVictoria PierotesNaomi PitcairnSuzanne & Dennis PorterMary PorterJonathan RyshpanJames Ringland & Karen IvyKenneth Robin

Tony Rossmann & Kathy BurnsPat RougeauM RyceNancy & Alan SaldichGreg & Sarah San MartinGeorge SauterBarbara Scales & Keith AlwardBerndt & Cheryl SchleiferGay ScottDavid SharpSandra & Malcolm SharpeBarbara SilverbergFrayda SimonRonald & Joan SipherdJerry SkomerJohn Slater & Lan McNabHenry StappRandolph & Frances StarnKristine SteensmaRobert Stein & Jessica PersKathy & Chip SterlingGeorge StewartPatricia Carson SussmanElouise & John SutterJoan SymondsAnn & Dickran TashjianMary & Anthony ThompsonBarrie Thorne & Peter LymanMarc Toma & Karen BurksAndrea TurnerRichard UmanskyDale UptegroveSabine von GlinskiStephen Walrod & Lauren McIntoshGary Wayne & Frances DinkelspielFredrick & Catherine WeberCarolyn WeinbergerJudy WeissMichael & Sandra WestallJoseph & Arnette WhitehouseMarty WilliamsDavid Williamson & Helen MarcusEugene Wong & Sally ShermanBeverly Zoller

Other Current Members and Supporters

Conservancy Membershipby Marilyn Goldhaber

HONORING OUR MEMBERS: From our founding in 2001, we have encouraged nearby residents and community organiza-tions to support the Conservancy by becoming Founding Sponsors with a commitment to contribute $1,000, either all at once or over ten years. We are pleased to list on the oppo-site page, in approximately the order the commitments were made, our 216 Founding Sponsors. Below, we also honor an additional 147 current members from other categories of membership, supporting the Conservancy during our most recent membership drive. Since our founding, more than 500 households in the Canyon and surrounding community have joined with us to preserve/restore the land, support our programs and to learn along with us how to best mitigate the threat of wildre.

JON KAUFMAN, SHELAGH BRODERSEN, RAY JOHNSTON and Andrew Johnson add plantings along the new fence.

legally. Heavily traveled roads are usually not good places to harvest food due to car emissions, which are absorbed into the plant. In addition, herbicide application is common along roadsides, and areas in which this occurs are not always marked or obvious. Since herbicides are a common tool used in restoration projects, it is obviously not appropriate to col-lect in an area where herbicides or other chemicals, such as pesticides, have been applied.

Foragers should be aware of the legal implications of their activities. Always obtain permission from a landowner prior to entry onto their property, and be certain to note and obey any rules they might impose. And then there are basic manners. Always tidy up after yourself. Disturb the site as little as possible. Both foot trafc and hand tools create impacts that can outweigh the benet of removing the alien species.

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MIDWAY UP CLAREMONT AVENUE a new fence deters illegal dumping (page 5).