Podcasts about Strawberry Creek

In this episode of The Venue Rx Podcast, our host Jonathan Aymin sits down with Bobby Bramhall, an entrepreneur with a unique background in professional sports, law, and the wedding venue industry. Bobby talks about his transition from professional baseball player to sports law professor and consultant, eventually becoming the owner of two wedding venues: Holston Springs and The Stables at Strawberry Creek. He shares the challenges and successes he's encountered, highlighting the importance of strategic hiring, effective marketing, and understanding client needs. Bobby offers valuable insights into running successful wedding venues and emphasizes the role of experience and relationships in driving success. About Our Guest:  Bobby Bramhall is an Adjunct Professor of Sports Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law and a sports attorney. He co-founded the Athlete Licensing Company and previously served as an Assistant Athletics Director at Texas A&M. Before entering law, Bobby had a successful career as a professional baseball player. As a standout left-handed pitcher at Rice University, he earned 2nd Team All-American honors and competed in two consecutive College World Series. Drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2007 MLB Draft, Bobby spent seven seasons playing for four MLB organizations, as well as in Puerto Rico's La Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente (LBPRC). He later pursued a law degree at the University of Tennessee and is now licensed to practice in Tennessee. In addition to his legal career, Bobby owns and operates two event venues, Holston Springs and The Stables at Strawberry Creek. Find Them Here:  The Stables at Strawberry Creek: Tel: 979-777-0882 Email: strawberrycreekstables@gmail.com  Website: https://strawberrycreektn.com/index.html Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/strawberrycreekknoxville/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/strawberrycreekknoxville Holston Springs Venue & Lodge: Tel: 979-777-0882 Email: holstonsprings@gmail.com  Website: https://www.holstonsprings.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holstonsprings/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/holstonsprings

After years of struggle, Indigenous activists and allies rejoiced last week, as the Berkeley City Council announced a global settlement to purchase West Berkeley's historic Ohlone Shellmound village site and pass title of the land to the Sogorea Te' Land Trust. The 2.2-acre parcel is the last undeveloped portion of the first human settlement in the Bay Area where, more than 5,000 years ago, ancestors of today's Ohlone people created a unique way of life at the mouth of Strawberry Creek. It is believed this deal will be the largest and most expensive urban #LandBack victory in California history — and perhaps in U.S. history. On this episode of Terra Verde, Fiona McLeod speaks with Corrina Gould, Chairperson of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation, and co-founder of the Sogorea Te' Land Trust, about what it took to secure this historic victory, and what's next for the West Berkeley Shellmound village site.  The post West Berkeley Shellmound Returns to Lisjan Nation in Historic #LandBack Victory appeared first on KPFA.

When working in the STR space, buying new properties to increase your bottom line is not always possible or probable. And sometimes, it's not even necessary. Sometimes increasing your revenue is as simple as renovating your current properties to attract your ideal guest avatar and maximize occupancy. So, how can you determine which renovations actually pay off, what to skip, and come up with a realistic budget for your project? On this edition of STR Conversations, Eric and I are breaking down how we are planning to do basic renovations to our current cabins at what's currently known as Strawberry Creek Village to begin transitioning them to fit our brand. Listen in as we share details about the current status of the Schoolhouse and the Daydreamers' Den and the types of renovations each of those properties needs to help us achieve $150K more a year in revenue. We'll share our philosophy for coming up with our vision, and the research we did to create a renovation budget that minimize costs while making the changes that will help us maximize occupancy and establish these properties as part of our Freewyld brand. Plus, we'll share exciting news about upcoming high-level guests we will be hosting on the show. If you are interested in participating in the last Legends X STR Accelerator class for 2022, NOW is the time to book your call. Topics Covered Why we are renovating Strawberry Creek Village to align with our brand visionThe #1 question you need to ask before renovatingHow to use tools like AirDNA to research and understand what guests are seeking in your property's marketThe most important caveat to keep in mind when using AirDNA's data in your researchThe exciting thing we learned about our studio's performance in the marketHow to use your customer Avatar to determine which renovations will create the experience YOUR guests are seekingWhat type of renovations we are doing to bring the Strawberry Creek properties closer to the Freewyld visionThe biggest challenges with converting our Schoolhouse property into a 2-bedroom useable spaceJasper breaks down the elements he used to come up with a realistic investment-to-revenue ratioThe #1 lesson we are learning from this process Resources AirDNAGet Paid For Your Pad on YouTubeGet Paid for Your Pad Email ListSubscribe to GPFYP on Apple Podcasts FREE Airbnb Starter GuideSTR Profit AcademyEmail team@overnightsuccess.ioSponsored ByLegends X STR Accelerator Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just two months ago, Eric and I bought an existing vacation rental business in Idyllwild, California, with the intention of renovating the existing units and building 10 to 15 new cabins on the property. This acquisition is our first step in building a hospitality brand known as Freewyld, a world-class short-term rental operation focused on secondary markets near large metropolitan areas. Places for city dwellers to get away and reconnect with nature.On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Eric and I sit down to describe how the Freewyld project is going, explaining how we've upgraded the marketing for our new listings and why we're booking exclusively on Airbnb right now.We share the challenges we're facing on the development side of the project and discuss how we're shifting our focus in light of a changing construction timeline.Listen in for insight on doing a scenario analysis before you take over a short-term rental business and find out how we got Strawberry Creek up and running in just eight weeks—and increased its revenue by 20%.Topics Covered What surprised us about our guest avatarMany new to using Airbnb platformMuch younger than expectedWhy we're booking exclusively on AirbnbLeverage reputation as hosts to book new listingsBuild catalog of 10-plus reviews for each unit Why ‘the barn' is struggling to get bookingsLeast attractive property of 4 units availableNeeds redesign to update experienceHow we've upgraded the marketing for our new listings Reduce number of photos (must ALL bring value)Tell story of experience through picturesThe challenges we're facing on the development sideBackup in county permitting officeAdditional 6 to 12 months to get approvalHow we're pivoting in light of a changing timelineFocus on buying more existing STR communitiesEnlist help of project manager to find leadsThe benefit of doing a scenario analysis before you buyRun numbers for worst-case scenarioEnsure investors will still get returnOur top wins since taking over Strawberry CreekBusiness up and running in under 2 monthsIncrease revenue by 20% without renovationsResources The Future of Short-Term Rentals on GPFYP EP404Strawberry Creek VillageOvernight Success Legends X Short-Term Rental AcceleratorSTR Legends Mastermind Review GPFYP on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the GPFYP NewsletterEmail jasper@getpaidforyourpad.com Sponsor Hostfully [Discount Code PAD] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When Eric and I bought the existing Airbnb business at Strawberry Creek Village, the previous host didn't use any technology tools at all.Running the community as a traditional vacation rental, she tracked bookings with pen and paper, texted the cleaner personally and physically plugged in and unplugged the outdoor lights herself each day.On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Eric shares the home automation technology he's installed at Strawberry Creek and describes the system we created around the digital locks and temporary access codes in our short-term rentals to streamline our business.Listen in to understand why Eric and I are setting up the tech ourselves and get our best advice on implementing new technology in your Airbnb hosting business.Topics CoveredWhat tech we've installed at Strawberry CreekLights turn on/off automaticallySchlage Encode digital locksNoiseAware in units and outdoorsApple TV and Nest thermostatsThe benefits of using digital locks in a STRSecurityGuest convenienceManagementHow we're automating the guest code processHostfully to import info at bookingManage and track via RemoteLockOur best advice on implementing technologyTake time for onboarding processBuild SOPs around how to use techThe advantage of creating walk-through videosHelps VAs with guest messagingInsurance in case of owner disputesHow we're building relationships with guestsPersonal communicationOnsite team memberResourcesStrawberry Creek VillageStrawberry Creek on InstagramBreezewayWheelhouseSchlage Encode LocksNoiseAwareApple TVNest ThermostatsEric on TikTokRemoteLockOvernight SuccessReview GPFYP on Apple PodcastsLegends X STR AcceleratorSTR Legends MastermindEmail jasper@getpaidforyourpad.comSponsorHostfully [Discount Code PAD] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Show Notes:0:47 - Gainesville, Florida0:50 - Berkeley, California 1:14 - Strawberry Creek, Berkeley 1:18 - University of California (UC), Berkeley 1:48 and 3:03 - Simple Geometric Quilting by Laura Preston 3:22 - The quilt Bhiravi made from Simple Geometric Quilting by Laura Preston3:42 and 4:20 - Walking foot4:30 - The quilt Wendy first quilted on her domestic machine 6:10 - Adobe Illustrator7:07 - Log Cabin traditional quilt block 7:09 - Half-Square Triangles7:34 - eBay7:48 - 1st Dibs8:18 - Bhiravi's Pfaff sewing machine find from Facebook Marketplace8:24 and 9:02 - Facebook Marketplace9:23 - Iowa10:59 - Modern Traditionalism quilting17:29 - Quilt Buzz Podcast26:22 - Bhiravi's blog post on basting in a small space28:25 - Roots and Refuge Farm YouTube channel28:40 - Log Cabin traditional quilt block 28:42 - Courthouse Step traditional quilt block28:50 - Art Gallery Pure Solids 28:51 - Kona Cotton 29:02 - Kona Cotton in Gold29:04 - Kona Cotton in Natural 29:10 - Kona Cotton in Snow29:26 - Stonemountain & Daughter Fabrics 29:27 - Berkeley29:40 - Heramarker29:47 - Aurifil Thread31:20 - Amanda Lee Smith of The Quilt Smith (@thequiltsmith)31:24 - Taylor Krz of Toad and Sew (@ToadAndSew)31:30 - Bhiravi's Toad and Sew project32:29 - Public Library Quilts (@PublicLibraryQuilts)32:56 - Fashion Revolution (@Fash_Rev)33:33 - Sew Liberated (@sewliberated)33:42 - Sew Liberated's free quilt pattern, Luminaries Quilt33:55 - Bhiravi's upcoming quilt pattern, Redwood Coast QuiltFollow Bhiravi:Instagram - @strawberrycreekquiltshttps://strawberrycreekquilts.com/Follow us:Amanda: @broadclothstudio https://broadclothstudio.com/Wendy: @the.weekendquilter https://the-weekendquilter.com/Anna: @waxandwanestudiohttps://www.waxandwanestudio.com/Quilt Buzz: @quilt.buzzhttps://quiltbuzzpodcast.com/Intro/Outro Music:Golden Hour by Vlad Gluschenko

Clam Beach landed on Heal the Bay's list of California's most polluted beaches yet again this year, getting an 'F' for water quality on the 2021 Beach Report Card. Today our guest is Dr. Jeremy Corrigan, who has worked for years to answer the burning question: why does Clam Beach have such high levels of fecal indicator bacteria? Dr. J is the Lab Manager at the Humboldt County Dept. of Public Health, and recently published a paper based on genetic analysis of the most likely sources. His findings point to birds as the main influence at Clam Beach, while cattle appear to be the biggest source of bacteria pollution in the Strawberry Creek watershed. Tune in to find out what this means for surfers and other beachgoers. For those inclined to do a deep dive:Microbial Source Tracking Approach to Investigate Fecal Waste at the Strawberry Creek Watershed and Clam Beach, California, USA by Jeremy A. Corrigan et al. 2021  Heal the Bay's 2020-21 Beach Report CardRegional Water Board's 2016-18 research on Pathogens in Coastal StreamsHumboldt Baykeeper's Water Quality Program features research involving volunteers, student interns, and local water quality expertsSupport the show (https://www.humboldtbaykeeper.org/get-involved/donate)

In this episode, we talk to Bhiravi Rathinasabapathi, the independent quilt pattern designer behind Strawberry Creek Quilts. We talk about learning how to quilt, being an Indian American quilter, and what it's like to start a sewing business. For show notes and a transcript of this episode, please see: https://asiansewistcollective.com/episode-5-quilting-with-bhiravi-rathinasabapathi-of-strawberry-creek-quilts/ If you find our podcast informative and enjoy listening, you can support us by joining our monthly membership or making a one-time donation via Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/asiansewistcollective

sent $$$ this week to Save the West Berkeley Shellmound.shellmound.org“Beneath the pavement in West Berkeley dwells a cultural and historical touchstone of singular significance: the first human settlement on the shore of San Francisco Bay, established 5,000 years ago. There, at the mouth of Strawberry Creek, the ancestors of today’s Ohlone people created a unique lifeway between land and sea. For countless generations, they practiced ceremonial traditions and constructed a great mound in which they buried their dead-the West Berkeley Shellmound.The last remaining undeveloped portion of this heritage site, held sacred by the contemporary Ohlone community, is now at risk of being obliterated by a proposed retail and housing development. The 1900 Fourth Street project would tower six stories high and excavate two acres of land for a basement parking garage. Ohlone family bands have joined together in steadfast opposition to the desecration of their sacred grounds and are leading a broadly-based community campaign to preserve the land.In March of 2018, developer Blake Griggs Properties announced a new plan to force the City of Berkeley to approve a redesigned, enlarged 1900 Fourth project by exploiting a brand new state law designed to address California’s housing shortages. Under this law, 1900 Fourth could be approved in as little as 180 days with no environmental review or public process-silencing the public, steamrolling the will and voices of Ohlone people, and destroying what remains of a sacred site where human burials are likely interred.Ohlone family bands and a broad coalition of Bay Area community members have vowed to not allow this grievous injustice to occur. We ask you to stand with us.”DOWNLOAD RECORDINGsubscribe to the podcast here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/5432fun(intro by omar)Lunch Lady “It’s Easy” DemoExcessive Visage “Buried in Gold” You Are Lost AnywayRAKTA “ATRATIVOS DA MENTIRA” OCULTO PELOS SERES - 7"Luge “Head Boy” Tall Is Just A FeelingPorches “Leave The House” The HouseThick Paint “Why the Sky Pisses” BifocalAnna McClellan “Veronica” BifocalR.Ariel “told” ohDingbat Superminx “The No Song” Beauty is as Beauty DoesNoseholes “Ex Driver” Danger DanceRadiator Hospital “The Songs You Like” Play The Songs You LikeCALYX “Dam Behind Bam” For To, OhFuture Teens “Learned Behavior” Hard FeelingsS. ayton “popcorn” pet namesMoonrace “M-Tentacles” Lunar DunesKissing party “Liars Club” Kissing Party/Break PlazaBobby’s Oar “Jealous” Not What I’m Looking ForMichael O. “Dying to C U” A Fruits & Flowers Three-WayPiano Movers “Combat Boots” A Fruits & Flowers Three-WayThe Reds, Pinks & Purples “Seems Like We’re Always Starting Over” A Fruits & Flowers Three-WayMiya Folick “Trouble Adjusting” Give it to MeSawtooth “Feels Like I’m Going To Die” Why We Are And Why We Are Not (Experiments)Hovvdy “Late” CranberryPolish “Eternal Flunk” DEMOTrauma Harness “Private Surplus” Walt’s CrawlersBenny Gringo “Choose to Confuse” Ben E. Gringo and his popcorn of FeerThe Oilies “Psychic Dog” Psychic DogPalm “Color Code” Rock Islanda stick and a stone “Willow” The Long Lost Art of Getting Lost

Rami & I discuss Strawberry Creek Ranch - event venue, horse boarding facility, working ranch, and much more. We review a little history of the venue and discuss the incredible beauty of the property. Unlike the big fancy wedding venues; Strawberry Creek has a Bridal Cabin rather than a Bridal Suite.  Between the view and the flowers; the cabin is like nothing you have ever seen before.Fox, coyote and bear are common visitors to the area. Not everybody gets to say they have a real bear at their wedding.http://strawberrycreekranch.com/ #GrandCountyMatterswww.grandcountymatters.com or wherever you get your podcasts!#GrandCountyMatters #JohnSandSaysSanderson Commercial Real Estate The name Grand County trusts when specialization matters - 970-531-9926

“Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you” (John 20).   At the age of eighteen, when I first lived on my own at U.C. Berkeley, I had all my classes in the same vast lecture hall and the room across the corridor from it. I have vivid memories of sitting on the benches by Strawberry Creek among the sycamore trees, outside Dwinelle Plaza, listening to a folk singer dressed all in white.   His name was Julian. He had long flowing hair and was only a little older than me. He often sang a song by Neil Young called “Sugar Mountain.” “Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain / With the barkers and the colored balloons, / You can’t be twenty on Sugar Mountain / Though you’re thinking that you’re leaving there too soon, / You’re leaving there too soon.”[1]   “It’s so noisy at the fair / But all your friends are there / And the candy floss you had / And your mother and your dad. // Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain…”   At those moments, with such exquisite intensity, I missed my mom, my dad and my brother, and all those county fair moments of my other life. Something inside me resisted growing up and yet I knew I had to.   Many forms of Christianity emphasize a dramatic conversion experience above all else. In some churches you might even feel pressured to think that someone can’t be a Christian without a singular, defining mystical experience, without being “born again” in this way. The idea that a particularly moment might change everything certainly has a role in our tradition.   But I believe our form of faith focuses more on slow, steady progress over long periods of time. Coming to church, singing hymns, praying, trying to change how we treat people around us every day, working for a more just society – these actions ultimately shape our inner landscape so that we begin to respond to the world in a new way. Faith is this process of growing up. Luke describes it as, “knowing the ways of life” (Acts 2). John calls it having life in Jesus’ name (Jn. 20). Paul writes that, “all will be made alive in Christ” (1 Cor. 15:22).   Growing up can be painful. But Jesus promises that we can embrace change with equanimity, with a kind of deep, centered peace. This morning I want to study what it looks like to grow in faith. I’m using the Puritan sermon structure with a section each on the text, doctrine and application.   Text. Each reference to Jesus’ resurrection seems so unique and yet there are familiar patterns. For instance in the Gospels of John and Luke, Jesus’ closest friends have difficulty recognizing him. After the Roman Empire executes Jesus as an enemy, the disciples feel so disabled by fear that they will only gather behind locked doors.   Fear and surprise make Jesus invisible to his friends. They can only rejoice after seeing his wounds. He says, “peace be with you.” He breathes the Holy Spirit into them.[2] He teaches them that they can forgive the sins of others. But Thomas was not there and he feels shattered when his friends tell him that they, “have seen the Lord” (Jn. 20).   I don’t think of Thomas as primarily a doubter. He just wants to experience what the others saw. Perhaps he feels alone or guilty for abandoning Jesus or missing the meeting. But even in bitter despair Thomas keeps showing up to be with his friends. In English a double negative (like “ain’t no”) is bad grammar but in in Greek it adds emphasis. Thomas does this when he says that unless he sees Jesus’ wounds, “I will [absolutely] not believe.” A more literal translation of Jesus response would not use the word “doubt” but would be “do not be disbelieving but believe,” or, as my friend Herman Waetjen translates it, “do not be faith-less but faith-full.[3]”   Jesus is not against doubt. The theologian Paul Tillich (1886-1965) is right to point out that doubt is not opposed to belief but an element in it.[4] Jesus is talking about the kind of believing that involves a trusting relationship with God. Thomas feels full of such awe and joy that he uses the same expression that Romans used for Emperor Domitian (51-96 CE). He exclaims, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus says, “blessed are those who have not seen and yet come to believe.” And John writes that his book’s purpose is that through believing that, “Jesus is the Messiah… you may have life in his name” (Jn. 20).   My point is not that Thomas failed to grow in faith. His experience shows us that there is far more to faith than believing that a certain event, like the resurrection, happened in the past. There is indeed a believing that comes from seeing. But there is also a way of looking forward and seeing a transformed future because of what we believe. We see to believe. But we also believe in order to see. This is the advanced course, the deeper insight into reality that Jesus helps us to realize.   Doctrine. My next question has to do with doctrine. What is faith and why do we need it? The answer has to do with what Christians call sin. The twentieth century theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) writes that each person has a unique moral code. Almost inevitably this collection of rules about how the world should be is biased in our favor and we go about trying to impose it on everyone else.   Barth also believes that most of the time we live by the delusion that we can help our self. Our ego craves security, power, the admiration of others. And so we rush, grasping for things, “striving and fighting.” But every success is hollow, everything we get turns out to be only a symbol for the real thing that we will never win on our own.[5] Christians have this idea of original sin. For me it means that there never was and never will be a golden age. There is something in us as human beings that drives us toward chaos. And yet through Jesus a kind of peace is possible. To friends who had just betrayed him this peace says that whatever separated us before is in the past. This peace is the inner freedom that belongs only to someone who seeks and accepts help from God. It is the peace that is more than absence of conflict. It is the peace we experience when we move beyond the question of what happened in the past and into an exploration of what faith in God might mean for the future.   That’s what the disciples did. Through believing in Jesus they went from expecting the enemy and hiding in fear, to being witnesses of God who changed the world. Faith isn’t just an idea of what is real, it is a way of living, of encountering each other with an openness to being helped by God. Religion is less like a form of knowledge and more like a longing for closeness with the origin of all things. Faith is simply wanting what God wants for the world.   Application. My last section concerns the danger of a certain kind of disbelieving. Yesterday was the anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It happened on Wednesday of Easter week. You can imagine a few days earlier the fanfare at the largest, grandest church in the city on Easter Sunday. Little did they know that day, the hundreds of our predecessors at Grace Church, that they would never step foot in that magnificent church again.[6]   In our time we think of it as a devastating earthquake. But the shaking lasted for only a minute while the subsequent fire raged for three days and did far more damage. Three thousand people died, 28,000 structures were destroyed. Half of the city was homeless – over a hundred thousand people were forced to camp out. Five square miles were completely obliterated making it the greatest urban fire in history before the aerial warfare of World War II.   As a young priest I remember hearing stories from survivors. One woman told me that this time camping in Golden Gate Park included some of the happiest days of her long life. People rescued and cared for each other. Money or social station didn’t matter as much anymore. Everyone helped in whatever way they could.   In fact, the natural disaster was not nearly as catastrophic as the human disaster. Rebecca Solnit writes that Frederick Funston the commanding officer of the Presidio simply took over the city. His lack of faith in ordinary citizens meant that his men shot people for trying to help in the catastrophe. Out of fears of looting, that never really materialized, they kept away citizens who could have stopped the fires.[7] In short this was a terrible spiritual failure. The leaders cared more about protecting the property of the few than about what the community might accomplish together.   As a nation we are in the midst of another terrible crisis of faith. At anti-government protests in Lansing Michigan, Huntington Beach, California, Austin, Texas and elsewhere we are seeing people taking to the streets because they do not trust the scientists, civic leaders and government officials who are trying to protect them from COVID19.[8] In our case growing spiritually means becoming wiser about what we disbelieve. But it also means caring about what God loves and not squandering this opportunity to build a more equal and just society. We were made for this.[9]   I remember the last Sunday before the Cathedral had to close. It was the first time we knew that we shouldn’t touch each other but before we realized that we couldn’t gather together at all anymore. That day a visiting family sat in the first row. We looked each other in the eyes as we passed the peace. I realized that when I say “the peace of the Lord be with you,” it means, “I want what is good for you and I believe that God does too.” That is what faith means.   Every disaster is different. Unlike the earthquake and fire of 1906 the structures of inequality and the walls that separate us from each other are growing. We know that when life begins to return to normal, we will not return to the same jobs, schools and favorite places. They will have changed and we will have changed too.   At eighteen I understood that we all have to grow up, in our life and in our faith. But we do not decide what to believe on our own. God offers us help. Jesus cannot be prevented by any locked door from calling us to a deep centered peace that passes all understanding. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet come to believe. May the peace of the Lord be always with you. [1] “Now you say you’re leaving home / ‘Cause you want to be alone. / Ain’t it funny how you feel / When you’re finding out it’s real.” “Sugar Mountain,” Track 6, Side 2, Decade, Warner Bros., 28 October 1977, Neil Young. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/neilyoung/sugarmountain.html [2] This is the only time that the New Testament uses this word which describes how Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit on to his disciples. [3] “Bring your finger here and see my hands and bring your hand and cast it into my side and do not keep on being faith-less but faith-full” (Jn. 20:27). Herman Waetjen, The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple: A Work in Two Editions (NY: T&T Clark, 2005) 423. [4] “Why not take the risk of historical uncertainty as well? The affirmation that Jesus is the Christ is an act of faith and consequently of daring courage. It is not an arbitrary leap into darkness but a decision in which elements of immediate participation and therefore certitude are mixed with elements of strangeness and therefor incertitude and doubt. But doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. Therefore, there is no faith without risk. The risk of faith is that it could affirm a wrong symbol of ultimate concern, a symbol which does not really express ultimacy…” Pau Tillich, Systematic Theology, Volume Two, Existence and Christ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1957) 116. [5] Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics IV:1 The Doctrine of Reconciliation, tr. G.W. Bromiley (NY: T&T Clark, 2004) 446, 460. [6] Our former church stands on the site of the Ritz Carlton Hotel down the California Street hill from us. Photographs of its burnt-out tower became a symbol of terrible destruction. [7] Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster (NY: Viking, 2009) 35ff. [8] Pastors in the Central Valley love their story of being persecuted for their faith so deeply that they are suing the same government officials who are so successfully limiting the spread of coronavirus through social distancing rules. [9] Some years ago Israeli archaeologists made an extraordinary discovery. They found an untouched burial cave of a family who survived the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians in 586 BC. Among the pottery and household objects, they found two amulets, little silver scrolls that had been unopened for 2600 years. With great gentleness they unrolled them and found the oldest parchment of any sacred scripture now in existence. On the scrolls was written, “May God bless you and keep you. May God cause His countenance to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. May God turn his countenance to you and grant you peace.” David J. Wolpe, Why Faith Matters (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2008) 194.

In the Hupy and Abraham outdoor report, author KJ Houtman talks about her new book, Why Women Hunt, published by Wild River Press and available June 15. (www.whywomenhunt.com, hupy.com) Jesse Quale, owner of Green Water Walleyes Guide Service, reports good action for walleyes, crappies and white bass on both Castle Rock and Petenwell flowages. (castlerock-petenwell.com, greenwaterwalleyes.com) Capt. Dan Welsch, of Dumper Dan Sportfishing Charters of Sheboygan, reports that baitfish are abundant in Lake Michigan and that the average weight of Chinook salmon returning to the Strawberry Creek spawning facility last fall was the highest on record at 20.6 lbs. He encourages listeners to leave comments on proposed trout and salmon stocking numbers at dnrlakemichiganplan@wisconsin.gov. (dumperdan.com, facebook.com/Wisconsin-Lakeshore-Business-Association-1008047639308659/) In the Madison Outdoors Report, McFarland guide Ron Barefield says bass, walleye and panfish action is hot right now on the Madison Chain. (fisherkingwinery.com)

Peter Loukianoff, Managing Partner of Strawberry Creek Ventures, details the personal and professional path that led him to Strawberry Creek. He also shares his passion for Cal's renowned entrepreneurial ecosystem, as well as the founders, incubators, VCs, and institutional partners that help strengthen the fund's ties to Berkeley's alumni community.

Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 36 for April 13, 2017. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story for you. Today we have a return of Rose Lemberg, whose story "Stalemate" was published in episode 7. This is the last story for the Winter 2017 issue, and Spring 2017 is right around the corner! We also have a guest reader, Rose Fox, for this episode. Rose Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe and Israel. Rose's work has appeared in Lightspeed's Queers  Destroy Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Unlikely Story, Uncanny, and other venues. Their Birdverse novelette "Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds" has been nominated for the Nebula Award, and longlisted for the Hugo Award and the Tiptree Award. Rose's debut poetry collection, Marginalia to Stone Bird, is available from Aqueduct Press (2016). Rose can be found on Twitter as @roselemberg, on Patreon at http://patreon.com/roselemberg, and on http://roselemberg.net.   Rose Fox is a senior reviews editor at Publishers Weekly and the co-editor (with Daniel José Older) of Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History. They also write Story Hospital, a compassionate, practical weekly advice column about writing, and run occasional workshops for blocked and struggling writers. In their copious free time, they write fanfic and queer romance novels. They live in Brooklyn with two partners, three cats, the world's most adorable baby, and a great many books.   How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War by Rose Lemberg   At the budget committee meeting this morning, the pen in my hand turns into the remote control of a subsonic detonator. It is familiar—heavy, smooth, the metal warm to the touch. The pain of recognition cruises through my fingers and up my arm, engorges my veins with unbearable sweetness. The detonator is gunmetal gray. My finger twitches, poised on the button. I shake my head, and it is gone. Only it is still here, the taste of blood in my mouth, and underneath it, unnamed acidic bitterness. Around the conference table, the faces of faculty and staff darken in my vision. I see them—aging hippies polished by their long academic careers into a reluctant kind of respectability; accountants neat in bargain-bin clothes for office professionals; the dean, overdressed but defiant in his suit and dark blue tie with a class pin. They’ve traveled, I am sure, and some had protested on the streets back in the day and thought themselves radicals, but there’s none here who would not recoil in horror if I confessed my visions. I do not twitch. I want to run away from the uncomplicated, slightly puffy expressions of those people who'd never faced the battlefield, never felt the ground shake, never screamed tumbling facedown into the dirt. But I have more self-control than to flee. When it comes my time to report, I am steady. I concentrate on the numbers. The numbers have never betrayed me.   At five PM sharp I am out of the office. The airy old space is supposed to delight, with its tall cased windows and the afternoon sun streaming through the redwoods, but there’s nothing here I want to see. I walk briskly to the Downtown Berkeley BART station, and catch a train to the city. The train rattles underground, all stale air and musty seats. The people studiously look aside, giving each other the safety of not-noticing, bubbles of imaginary emptiness in the crowd. The mild heat of bodies and the artificially illuminated darkness of the tunnel take the edge off. When I disembark at Montgomery, the sky is already beginning to darken, the edges of pink and orange drawn in by the night. I could have gotten off at Embarcadero, but every time I decide against it—the walk down Market Street towards the ocean gives me a formality of approach which I crave without understanding why.  My good gray jacket protects against the chill coming up from the water. The people on the street—the executives and the baristas, the shoppers and the bankers—all stare past me with unseeing eyes. They shipped us here, I remember. Damaged goods, just like other states shipped their mentally ill to Berkeley on Greyhound buses: a one-way ticket to nowhere, to a place that is said to be restful and warm in the shadow of the buildings, under the bridges, camouflaged from this life by smells of pot and piss. I am luckier than most. Numbers come easy to me, and I look grave and presentable in my heavy jackets that are not armor. Their long sleeves hide the self-inflicted scars. I remember little. Slivers. But I still bind my chest and use the pronoun they, and I wear a tight metal bracelet on my left arm. It makes me feel secure, if not safe. It’s only a ploy, this bracelet I have found, a fool’s game at hope. The band is base metal, but without any markings, lights, or familiar pinpricks of the signal. Nothing flows. No way for Tedtemár to call, if ever Tedtemár could come here. Northern California is where they ship the damaged ones, yes, even interstellars.   Nights are hard. I go out to the back yard, barren from my attempts at do-it-yourself landscaping. Only the redwood tree remains, and at the very edge, a stray rose bush that blooms each spring in spite of my efforts. I smoke because I need it, to invoke and hold at bay the only full memory left to me: the battlefield, earth ravished by heaving and metal, the screech and whoosh of detonations overhead. In front of me I see the short, broad figure of my commanding officer. Tedtemár turns around. In dreams their visor is lifted, and I see their face laughing with the sounds of explosions around us. Tedtemár's arms are weapons, white and broad and spewing fire. I cannot hear anything for the wailing, but in dreams, Tedtemár's lips form my name as the ground heaves.   I have broken every wall in my house, put my fist through the thinness of them as if they're nothing. I could have lived closer to work, but in this El Cerrito neighborhood nobody asks any questions, and the backyard is mine to ravage. I break the walls, then half-heartedly repair them over weekends only to break them again. At work I am composed and civil and do not break anything, though it is a struggle. The beautiful old plaster of the office walls goes gritty gray like barracks, and the overhead lights turn into alarms. Under the table I interlace my fingers into bird's wings, my unit's recognition sign, as my eyes focus resolutely on spreadsheets. At home I repair the useless walls and apply popcorn texture, then paint the whole thing bog gray in a shade I mix myself. It is too ugly even for my mood, even though I’ve been told that gray is all the rage with interior designers these days. I put my fist through the first wall before the paint dries.   Today, there is music on Embarcadero. People in black and colorful clothing whirl around, some skillfully, some with a good-natured clumsiness. Others are there simply to watch. It’s some kind of a celebration, but I have nothing to celebrate and nothing to hope for, except for the music to shriek like a siren. I buy a plate of deep-fried cheese balls and swallow them, taste buds disbelieving the input, eyes disbelieving the revelry even though I know the names of the emotions expressed here. Joy. Pleasure. Anticipation. At the edge of the piers, men cast small nets for crabs to sell to sushi bars, and in the nearby restaurants diners sip wine and shiver surreptitiously with the chill. I went out to dates with women and men and with genderfluid folks, but they have all avoided me after a single meeting. They are afraid to say it to my face, but I can see. Too gloomy. Too intense. Too quiet. Won't smile or laugh. There is a person I notice among the revelers. I see them from the back—stooped, aloof. Like me. I don’t know what makes me single them out of the crowd, the shape of the shoulders perhaps. The stranger does not dance, does not move; just stands there. I begin to approach, then veer abruptly away. No sense in bothering a stranger with—with what exactly? Memories? I cannot remember anything useful. I wish they'd done a clean job, taken all my memories away so I could start fresh. I wish they'd taken nothing, left my head to rot. I wish they'd shot me. Wish I'd shoot myself, and have no idea why I don't, what compels me to continue in the conference rooms and in the overly pleasant office and in my now fashionably gray house. Joy or pleasure are words I cannot visualize. But I do want—something. Something. Wanting itself at least was not taken from me, and numbers still keep me safe. Lucky bastard.   I see the stranger again at night, standing in the corner of my backyard where the redwood used to be. The person has no face, just an empty black oval filled with explosives. Their white artificial arms form an alphabet of deafening fire around my head. The next day I see them in the shape of the trees outside my office window, feel their movement in the bubbling of Strawberry Creek when I take an unusual lunch walk. I want, I want, I want, I want. The wanting is a gray bog beast that swallows me awake into the world devoid of noise. The suffocating safe coziness of my present environment rattles me, the planes and angles of the day too soft for comfort. I press the metal of my bracelet, but it is not enough. I cut my arms with a knife and hide the scars old and new under sleeves. I break the walls again and repaint them with leftover bog gray, which I dilute with an even uglier army green. Over and over again I take the BART to Embarcadero, but the person I seek is not there, not there when it’s nearly empty and when it’s full of stalls for the arts and crafts fair. The person I seek might never have existed, an interplay of shadows over plastered walls. A co-worker calls to introduce me to someone; I cut her off, sick of myself and my well-wishers, always taunting me in my mind. In an hour I repent and reconsider, and later spend an evening of coffee and music with someone kind who speaks fast and does not seem to mind my gloom. Under the table, my fingers lace into bird’s wings. I remember next to nothing, but I know this: I do not want to go back to the old war. I just want—want—   I see the person again at Montgomery, in a long corridor leading from the train to the surface. I recognize the stooped shoulders and run forward, but the cry falls dead on my lips. It is not Tedtemár. Their face, downturned and worn, betrays no shiver of laughter. They smell unwashed and stale and their arms do not end in metal. The person does not move or react, like the others perhaps-of-ours I’ve seen here over the years, and their lips move, saying nothing. I remember the date from the other day, cheery in the face of my silence. But I know I have nothing to lose. So I cough and I ask. They say nothing. I turn away to leave, when out of the corner of my eyes I see their fingers interlock to form the wings of a bird.   Imprudent and invasive for this world, I lay my hand on their shoulder and lead them back underground. I buy them a BART ticket, watch over them as even the resolutely anonymous riders edge away from the smell. I take them to my home in El Cerrito, where broken walls need repair, and where a chipped cup of tea is made to the soundtrack of sirens heard only in my head. The person holds the cup between clenched fists and sips, eyes closed.  I cannot dissuade them when they stand in the corner to sleep, silent and unmoving like an empty battle suit. At night I dream of Tedtemár crying. Rockets fall out of their eyes to splash against my hands and burst there into seeds. I do not understand. I wake to the stranger huddled to sleep in a corner. Stray moonrays whiten their arms to metal. In the morning I beg my guest to take sustenance, or a bath, but they do not react. I leave them there for work, where the light again makes mockery of everything. Around my wrist the fake bracelet comes to life, blinking, blinking, blinking in a code I cannot decipher, calling to me in a voice that could not quite be Tedtemár’s. It is only a trick of the light.   At home I am again improper. The stranger does not protest or recoil when I peel their dirty clothes away, lead them into the bath. They are listless, moving their limbs along with my motions.  The sudsy water covers everything—that which I could safely look at and that which I shouldn’t have seen. I will not switch the pronouns. When names and memories go, these bits of language, translated inadequately into the local vernacular, remain to us. They are slivers, always jagged slivers of us, where lives we lived used to be. I remember Tedtemár’s hands, dragging me away. The wail of a falling rocket. Their arms around my torso, pressing me back into myself. I wash my guest’s back. They have a mark above their left shoulder, as if from a once-embedded device. I do not recognize it as my unit’s custom, or as anything. I wanted so much—I wanted—but all that wanting will not bring the memories back, will not return my life. I do not want it to return, that life that always stings and smarts and smolders at the edge of my consciousness, not enough to hold on to, more than enough to hurt—but there’s an emptiness in me where people have been once, even the ones I don’t remember. Was this stranger a friend? Their arms feel stiff to my touch. For all their fingers interlaced into wings at Montgomery station, since then I had only seen them hold their hands in fists. Perhaps I’d only imagined the wings. I wail on my way to work, silent with mouth pressed closed so nobody will notice. In the office I wail, open-mouthed and silent, against the moving shades of redwoods in the window.   For once I don’t want takeaway or minute-meals. I brew strong black tea, and cook stewed red lentils over rice in a newly purchased pot. I repair the broken walls and watch Tedtemár-who-is-not-quite-Tedtemár as they lean against the doorway, eyes vacant. I take them to sleep in my bed, then perch on the very edge of it, wary and waiting. At night they cry out once, their voice undulating with the sirens in my mind. Hope awakens in me with that sound, but then my guest falls silent again. An older neighbor comes by in the morning and chats at my guest, not caring that they do not answer—like the date whose name I have forgotten. I don’t know if I’d recognize Tedtemár if I met them here. My guest could be anyone, from my unit or another, or a veteran of an entirely different war shipped to Northern California by people I can’t know, because they always ship us here, from everywhere, and do not tell us why. Work’s lost all taste and color, what of it there ever was. Even numbers feel numb and bland under my tongue. I make mistakes in my spreadsheets and am reprimanded.   At night I perch again in bed beside my guest. I hope for a scream, for anything; fall asleep in the silent darkness, crouched uncomfortably with one leg dangling off to the floor. I wake up with their fist against my arm. Rigid fingers press and withdraw to the frequency of an old alarm code that hovers on the edge of my remembrance. In darkness I can feel their eyes on me, but am afraid to speak, afraid to move. In less than a minute, when the pressing motion ceases and I no longer feel their gaze, I cannot tell if this has been a dream.   I have taken two vacation days at work. I need the rest, but dread returning home, dread it in all the different ways from before. I have not broken a wall since I brought my guest home. Once back, I do not find them in any of their usual spots. I think to look out of the kitchen window at last. I see my stranger, Tedtemár, or the person who could be Tedtemár—someone unknown to me, from a different unit, a different culture, a different war. My commanding officer. They are in the back yard, on their knees. There’s a basket by their side, brought perhaps by the neighbor. For many long minutes I watch them plant crocuses into the ravaged earth of my yard. They are digging with their fists. Their arms, tight and rigid as always, seem to caress this ground into which we’ve been discarded, cast aside when we became too damaged to be needed in the old war. Explosives streak past my eyelids and sink, swallowed by the clumps of the soil around their fists. I do not know this person. I do not know myself. This moment is all I can have. I open the kitchen door, my fingers unwieldy, and step out to join Tedtemár.   END   “How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War" was originally published in Lightspeed's Queers Destroy Science Fiction issue in June 2015. This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. 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The oldest & largest Ohlone village on SF Bay is the proposed site for a five-story West Berkeley apartment and retail complex. Ohlone descendants and Berkeley residents are calling instead for a two-acre memorial park honoring Ohlone history and culture.TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:Method to the madness is next. You're listening to method to the madness, a weekly public affairs show on k a l expertly celebrating bay area in Harris. I'm your host, Lisa Kiefer. And today I'm interviewing Corina Google lead organizer and cofounder of Indian people organizing for change. And Chris Oaks, native American activists and Oakland resident. They'll be talking about their innovative quest to stop development on the west Berkeley Shell Mountain alone, the village side [00:00:30] and the birthplace of human settlement on the San Francisco Bay. Come to the program, Chris and Terrina. Uh, you guys have been very involved recently, Speaker 2:the shell mound Aloni village site controversy. And I want to talk about your innovative solutions to your opposition to the development there. What's going on over there? Well, thank you for having us on. We've been working on the shell mound issue I guess since about March of last year [00:01:00] when the developer first took it to the zoning board and there was a few of us, a handful of us that showed up to that first initial meeting in March and the opposition already to the plan. So the plan is to develop the fourth streets. It's 1904th street. What's Bangor's parking lot, right? Spangler is parking lot right across the street. And you know, a lot of people say, well, why? You know, it's not even there anymore, but the [inaudible] is way deeper inside of there and it's way bigger [00:01:30] than um, this bangers parking lot. That's 2.2 acres. It actually goes, um, to second and Hearst. Speaker 2:It goes under the railroad tracks under trued and white Anders bangers and out underneath the overpass. So as a huge area of my ancestors, it's over 5,700 years old. It is the first place that people ever lived in the entire bay. It is the oldest of 425 plus shell mounds or burial sites of my ancestors that once rank [00:02:00] the entire bay area. So many have been covered up. Emeryville is a, was a big shell. Male Emeryville was the largest of the 425. It was over 60 feet high and 350 feet in diameter. Um, it was both the uh, west Berkeley showmen and the memory real Shama was on a 1852 coast survey map. So coming into the bay you could use them as points of reference. So these um, shell mounds were really instrumental for us also as Aloni people to be able [00:02:30] to see out our relatives that were around the bay to have ceremony on top of them to be able to light fire so people can send signals to one another about different things. Speaker 2:So these were, I'm absolutely are monuments to the ancestors but are also sacred sites to the alone of people that exist here in the bay area today. Okay. So you're talking about the unique and significant points about this, the earliest settlement on the bay ceremonial side, a burial ground, and you mentioned some other things. You say that [00:03:00] it's listed on the national registry of historic sites now it qualifies. It is a landmark in the city of Berkeley and it's also a state historic landmark and it qualifies for a national historic landmark. And the development is going to be what, what is it that they're proposing? They're proposing a five story mixed use building with parking, housing, restaurants and stores. It's a pretty big structure compared to what's there right now. Yeah, it's [00:03:30] the local businesses and residents think about this development Speaker 3:at the public comment period. Um, one of the main developers for fourth street came by and he actually has hired an attorney who testified as well. Um, because they are against the development for a variety of reasons. One of which is that parking in that area as anybody knows who goes down there, it's horrible. But then the other one is it's just completely out of size for the area. So they brought up a bunch of concerns about the height of other buildings around it cause [00:04:00] it's going to be a few stories taller than any other building near there, chewed in white. They also came to the last zoning board public comment and they were also concerned about congestion and traffic in the area, which is also something that the zoning board members pretty much unanimously in their comments had mentioned was going to be one of the major issues to this project. Purely from a city planning perspective. The area pretty much has been overdeveloped and so there isn't enough parking. Traffic is horrible and the intersections there are bad [00:04:30] and they're just going to get worse and there's real no remedy for it because it's a kind of secluded little pocket of a neighborhood. Speaker 2:So the draft environmental impact report came out during the holiday season and what happens with a lot of drafty IRAs that come out around the holiday season is that people in the general public don't know about them and don't have time or energy to actually submit comments to the draft EIR. So we were able to actually do a lot of work. There's a committee of us that have been working together closely meeting [00:05:00] on a weekly basis, trying to figure out how to get the word out and to get people to come to the meetings. So they've been having public commenting both at the Zoning Adjustment Board and at the landmarks preservation commission. We've been able to successfully get lots of people to both of those meetings. The last public commenting period at the landmarks preservation commission at the north Berkeley Senior Center. And so getting folks to come out there and speak in opposition and to show people have come out with signs and um, have [00:05:30] stood there in the background and if stayed until one 30, two o'clock in the morning to give public testimony about why they're in opposition to this site has been really great to get public backing of for us to oppose this particular site. Speaker 2:So we've been working on it I guess since they, they released it in November, they gave it to extensions. Um, the last extension they gave we'll go until February 9th. What are you recommending since today is the deadline? What time is the, is the last time can comment and how do they go about doing that? 5:00 PM [00:06:00] is the end of the commenting period and if you don't have time to get it in the mail today, you can go onto the west Berkeley show Mt. Facebook page or the Indian people organizing for change website. You can find and download a copy of the letters that have been pre created that have bullet points of different issues that are in the EIR that we'd like for people to comment too, and you can send that to Shannon Allen at city planning and Berkeley. What [00:06:30] are your major challenges for this project? Speaker 2:I guess the major challenges have been educating people about this place because when you look at the, at Berkeley itself, Berkeley is a small city that's grown over the last 150 so years, but they don't have a lot of history around show mounts. There's some stuff about Aloni people in the past. They see I have a park there underneath the overpass. There's pictures of Baloney people dressed in regalia in the past and stuff, but I think that that's [00:07:00] the problem is that we're always viewed as somebody from the past, right. So to realize that Aloni people still exist here in our own territory. To bring people together to talk about what that looks like, to reimagine the bay area, to bring folks together on a loony territory with Aloni presence. Still here is something that's been a little challenging, but I think that because we've done the work over the last 20 years that it hasn't been as challenging as it could have been at school. Speaker 2:Children learn about the settlements. It's required [00:07:30] in the state of California. I think one of the most important things for just like barrier residents in general is that this is the first place that human beings ever lived on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. This is a place that we, as everybody who lives currently in the bay area, it should be a place that they're proud of. This is a place that's going to turn into another building. We have enough buildings around. We don't have sites like this. This is the first one. It's the oldest one. It also happens to be a burial ground where thousands and thousands of people were buried for over 5,000 years. [00:08:00] It should be a a historic landmark for the bay area. Everybody should know about it. What are you proposing instead? We're proposing we're working with a group that's going to create a plan that's an alternative plan. Speaker 2:That's one of the problems with the draftee I are that there is no alternative plan except to say that we could make it a smaller building maybe and so that's just not okay to demolish something. This sacred, this beautiful, this, this meaningful, illogical side with the museum over it. [00:08:30] It should have something there that instead of just a plaque saying that allone people were here at one time and we wiped them out and they're not here anymore. Cause that's basically what we get. We need to show folks that this is a living culture. People have been coming to the shell mound. My still take my family there. We still prayed there and recently we've taken people there and had interfaith prayer circles. They're over 200 people come every time to pray there together that this is a place that is supposed to be saved. This is a sacred place. Speaker 2:It's a place [00:09:00] that that shouldn't be destroyed. And so what we're doing is we're looking at how can we show this in a way that people can understand all of these other monuments that have been destroyed. Nobody can really wrap their head around what a shell man looks like. [inaudible] isn't there something from the 18 hundreds that I've seen pictures. There are maps that are, that were created. There are pictures of remanence of the shell man, both in Berkeley, west Berkeley and uh, Emeryville. And these [00:09:30] mounds are created by thousands of years of people living in the same place. So it's not like we are wandering around that we had these settlements that were, that people lived at. We were fishermen, so we lived on the water. The Bay actually came up closer. So imagine going into this space and keeping it green. Imagine opening up the Strawberry Creek where my, my ancestors lived next to so that people could see it again today. Imagine having our, uh, uh, structured there in Arbor where we had our ceremonial dances at and having [00:10:00] a mound built there and having structures of what the houses looked like so that children, not only from Berkeley but all over the bay area could come here and actually see that as you said, they, they have to study this stuff. The train tracks are right there and can bring people here to Berkeley. So Speaker 4:proposed a plan for something like that? Speaker 2:Yes. So we have had the archeologists, there's some archeologists that have been involved. Uh, not so much in the planning of the, of what we're envisioning. We have some folks that do landscape architecture [00:10:30] that are actually creating plans for us right now. We are hoping to submit that um, we'll be submitting that along with our comments for the draft EIR. Those things will happen so that zoning board could actually see that this could actually be something different. We either open it up to green space and we say as the city of Berkeley that this is what needs to happen. That we don't need any more buildings down there that we actually are going to respect the Aloni people in the culture and that it's an ongoing thing and yes, we want to help the Aloni people to actually [00:11:00] share their culture and beliefs here in the bay area and at the, and at the very least, leave it alone and leave it as a parking area not to build on it ever. Speaker 1:If you're just tuning in, you're listening to method to the madness weekly public affairs show on k a l expertly celebrating bay area innovators. Today I'm interviewing Corina Ghoul and Chris oaks about the Berkeley Shell Mound Aloni village site. [00:11:30] You were the main figure, one of the main figures in a film. Speaker 4:Great documentary beyond recognition. And in that film you created a land trust to solve a similar issue. Can you talk about what that was and I understand also that you are trying to create a land trust here. Sure. Speaker 2:Michelle Steinberg created the film beyond recognition because we were also involved in takeover of our re reoccupying, one of our sacred sites that had two shell mounds on it and [inaudible] Tay [00:12:00] where Glen Cove Leho is right now in 2011, hundreds of people came out and supported us in protecting that sacred site at that including Chris who was on our legal team at the time. We stood there for 109 days taking over that space again and praying and hoping that it would be protected for all eternity. And for the most part that that's what really happened. There was a federally recognized tribe that is from farther up north. Um, it's not their territory, but they stepped in and created a cultural [00:12:30] easement with the park district and the city, which is the first that's ever happened to cultural easement, allows those three entities to have the same rights on that piece of land. Speaker 2:So it will be protected. It would not have happened had we not been there for 109 days, pushing the envelope to make sure that something came through and happened. What we realized while we were there. If we had had a land trust at the time, we could have created that cultural easement ourselves. And so Beth Rose Middleton, who was a professor at UC Berkeley, wrote land for [00:13:00] trust, actually invited me to a native American meeting for native people that had land trusts. And I couldn't understand at the time why I was going to the meeting until I got them begin to hear their stories. And I said, wait a minute, we should do that. So we have decided, a group of us came together and we're creating the first urban native women land trust ever created because Aloni people's land is all urban now just about. Um, but also it's all native indigenous women's Land Trust, not just Aloni land trust because so many native [00:13:30] women have been brought into the bay area on relocation measures during the fifties and sixties has raised their children here. Speaker 2:Their children have children now. And so it's really about giving a place, a space and we're really having to buy our own land back. And that's what the land trust is about. So right now we have done the articles of incorporation. We're working on kind of completing the nonprofit status so that we can go forward and begin to raise money to actually do the purchasing of our land, but land is expensive. Here in the bay area, [00:14:00] the 2.2 acres of land that's across from spankers is going for $17 million. My ancestors, the first place that they ever lived, the first place that Aloni babies were born in this area. The first place of laughter is going for $17 million and if they put this building on top of that, that means that there is not going to be a place that my grandchildren who are laughing and being born on our land can go and pray with their ancestors. Speaker 2:I think that society has come a bit farther than that, [00:14:30] that we can actually say we can actually share this with the first people that tended to this land. What needs to happen before you get your nonprofit status? What remains to be done? We are in the midst. We have our bylaws that were just completed. We are vetting it through the lawyer and the last paperwork needs to be submitted and then it's all good. We actually have a website that's online right now. It's called a Segora Tay Land Trust. You'd better spell that. Yeah. Www dot [inaudible] [00:15:00] s o g o r e a t e hyphen land trust.org and folks can go on it could learn about history in the bay area, can learn about why we created the land trust. There's also something on there called the Sh. Let me tax and Sh Leumi in Aloni language though, Aloni language from this area [inaudible] it means a gift and so it allows people to go on there and to actually help us in finding ways to raise money if they're a renter or an owner, how many bedrooms [00:15:30] they have, how much land tax they could actually pay to help us to begin that process of purchasing land back. Speaker 2:So it's a way for people to be involved. I encourage people in the [inaudible] Speaker 4:and to see that great documentary that you feature so prominently in. Yes, which is called beyond recognition. Definitely check that out. It's a good one. I wanted to ask you if you felt like standing rock and all the historic precedent that said, although right now it might be under siege with our, our new president, but do you feel that that has invigorated [00:16:00] this cause? Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say that I'm, in the last 20 years we've been working on [inaudible] issues in the bay area. We've done walks to show mounds, we've done the occupation, we go to the Emeryville on the day after Thanksgiving for the last 19 years asking people to come and help us give out information to ask people not to shop there. And I think that when people began to see standing rock and social media has been such a great wonder and helping people to see this, see what was happening out there and to actually [00:16:30] follow along. So many people, activists from the bay area have gone out to standing rock. And one of the beautiful things that has happened was that the elders out in standing rock actually gave a directive to young people that were coming out there. And going back home was to get involved with your own local issues. This is our standing rock right now in the bay area. This is our front line. And so young people, allies and accomplices have come together, have helped us to try to figure out how they could do work to help us [00:17:00] to get fundraisers for the lawyer that we've had to hire, have done fundraisers to get information out, have created events pages so that folks will know about it. So it's been a wonderful coupling of between us. Speaker 4:Yeah, it's not over yet. Of course. It's not over yet. It has really kind of lit some fires I think. Yeah, it's been great. You've been at this for 20 some years. How did you Speaker 2:no, you were Aloni how did this all come about? Right. I grew up in the bay area, went to, uh, went to public [00:17:30] schools. My mom always told us that we were Aloni we, she knew that we came from mission San Jose. That's where we were enslaved at. My great grandfather, Jose Guzman was the last one of the last speakers of the [inaudible] language. Can you speak? No, I can't speak it. I can say a few words inside of [inaudible]. My daughter, um, it was her dream since she was about 14 to begin the language and she's starting to do that now and she's teaching my grandchildren as well. So it's a wonderful thing that that's, and it's my hope that I will [00:18:00] learn enough so that I can pray in my own language. So we've always known who we are, but it's not that long ago that California Indians, it was against the law for them to even be here. Speaker 2:It wasn't that long ago that California Indian kids were taken out of their homes and put into boarding schools like my mom and my aunties and uncles. So it was very scary boarding one of the boarding schools. And so for us it's been a real, it's a resilience, a way for people to say Aloni people are bringing back language and [00:18:30] culture and dance and song because our ancestors put those things away though because our ancestors gave those things to people to hold onto until we were able to grab them again until it was an, it was safe for us to come out. And I think that that's really important that Nels Nelson, for whatever reason, created this map with 425 shell mounds way before I was here in 1909 he wrote that map down. But today we were able to use that in order to find out where all of our sites were. Speaker 2:[00:19:00] JP Harrington recorded my great grandfather on wax cylinder and it's in the Smithsonian so we could reclaim our language again. So there's these people that put these things away for us because our ancestors whispered in their ear and told them to do that so that we could come back again and share this with our children and our grandchildren. So it's our responsibility. We are the stewards of this land. We were put here because this was the place we were supposed to take care of in this part of the world, and so I really believe that that's our, [00:19:30] that's what we're supposed to do. Bringing back language and song and all of that is part of the dream part of that, about the importance of that language and culture and why is this important? It's important for the healing of this land. It's important for the healing of the people that live on this land, not just the loaning people. Speaker 2:When you say healing village, are you talking about environmental degradation? I'm talking about racism. I'm talking about the slavery. I'm talking about environmental, I'm talking about the invisibility of Aloni people. I'm talking about all of the [00:20:00] horrific things of the happened since the genocide that was created on this land that needs to be taken care of. I'm talking about the thousands of ancestral remains at UC Berkeley that need to be put back into the ground. I'm talking about all of those kinds of things that need to be fixed here so that we could all become more human with each other. Again, it starts here. It starts with US fixing it with the first people of this land. There was at one point the United States government [00:20:30] had a government to government relationship with, with our tribe. And then there was a point in history where the person that was in charge of the bureau of Indian affairs wrote something that basically got rid of us. He wrote a line that said for all intensive purposes, no money was needed in order to purchase Speaker 3:land for the homeless Indians in the area. Now that takes an act of Congress to actually wipe out a tribe and that never happened, but there has not been any government to government relationships [00:21:00] since then. So it's really difficult to talk to the general public about these kinds of things because the general public doesn't even learn what sovereignty means, what an Indian tribe and federal recognition means in high school. And most kids, like we talk about a kids learn about Aloni people in third and fourth grade, but they learn about us in the past like we don't exist anymore. Well, you have the Indians around here used to do this and they used to do that, but what about the Indian people here today that drive cars and have cell phones and go to Raiders Games? It's always about [00:21:30] the Indians that were dressed up in feathers a long time ago and people didn't dress in feathers everyday. Speaker 3:Those were regalia that we use for certain ceremony, so we have to break those ideas in people's mind, but we also have to do a better job educating people that go to public schools about what does this, what is the responsibility of the federal government to the nations. Many different nations, hundreds of different nations that lived here in the, in the United States before it was the United States and we do a really bad [00:22:00] job in the education system doing that. Part of the history of how Indian tribes were recognized by the federal government comes from the fact that we have a several hundred year history of being Indian people in the United States. One of the issues that we get, especially out in California, is that the westward expansion in the United States followed several hundred years of congress changing their minds. So under the Supreme Court decision of John Marshall, the, he said that Indian nations were what they call domestic dependent nations, which means they're under [00:22:30] federal government control just legally. Speaker 3:And so part of that was that George Washington and the Delaware people, they were talking in the late 17 hundreds and as they traveled west, as the, as United States grew, they had different policies and different agreements with all of the Indian tribes going one by one. We've got about 430 recognized Indian tribes. Each one had their own agreements. And part of that was reflected in what year it was. Who is in Congress? Who was president? Was it, um, Andrew Jackson [00:23:00] who is known as the Indian killer or was it president Washington who in fact was fighting for independence from a foreign nation and all the way until the war of 1812 Indians were a strong part of the United States military or the British military or the French military. Depending on who they were aligned with. So a lot of the east coast tribes have a completely different history because they were actually allies of these emerging governments. Speaker 3:And then when you get past the Mississippi, you had the policies of a few hundred years of Indian [00:23:30] wars, which is why, for instance, the Lakota people and the boots Apache people in Geronimo and sitting bull. And you get these Indian leaders for about a hundred years that were known for the Indian wars because that's when the west was expanding rapidly and they were killing Indians to do it. But the little known American history that we don't know as much is what happened when not the Mexican or the Spanish government got to California, but was when the United States government got to California. So we're talking in the 1850s so that was, [00:24:00] you know, 150 years of Indian policy that had been used by the United States and by Congress. And so you had a completely different idea of how to deal with Indian people by the time you got here. So what happened was that they were keen to recognize as many tribes as possible on the east coast because they were allies. Speaker 3:They were keen to run through all the tribes in the middle of America, from North Dakota, all the way down to Texas and all the way out to Colorado. And by the time they got here, they were purely motivated [00:24:30] by taking the land and they saw the Indian people as a burden on the west coast and California specifically because it was one of the last states. This is where Congress made it a policy to not recognize the tribes in California because they saw them as a burden because of 150 years of us policy with Indian tribe. Chris, what is your background here? What are you doing in this movement? My mom is from England and my father's from the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma. The reason we're the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma's, [00:25:00] cause Andrew Jackson relocated us in the 1830s from the state of Mississippi, which is our actual true home. Speaker 3:That's where our origin stories come from. The Choctaw people were pivotal in fighting in the war of 1812 against other Indian nations. For instance, to Coosa, uh, who is like a famous Indian leader who was very anti-American because he was on the British side. My tribe fought for the, for the United States. We were part of the war of 1812 where a large part of the victory of the war of 18, 12. The reason that we don't have any reservation in the state of Oklahoma [00:25:30] is because we picked the wrong side of the war for the civil war. So that's just a little brief history of how our tribe has been affected over in the state of Mississippi, in Oklahoma, by United States policy, United States Indian policy has changed depending on who's president, who's in Congress, what were were fighting. And where we are. Part of me here is that my dad, his family was born in Oklahoma since it became a state. Speaker 3:My great-great-grandmother arrived in Oklahoma the day it became a state as a settler. She was on the Non Indian [00:26:00] side and my dad's family has been born in the state of Oklahoma since we were relocated there in the 1830s he moved out here because of the air force. My granddad was relocated here as part of the air force. They came to California. So the reason why, for instance, inter-tribal friendship houses, the oldest Pan Indian meeting center in the United States, which is right here in Oakland on the west coast, is because Indians have been relocated to California specifically to the industrial areas like Oakland, [00:26:30] Los Angeles, which is where some of the largest Indian populations are in the United States is because of relocation. Sometimes that happened from what they call the relocation programs to the United States. Sometimes it comes because Indians have overwhelmingly been some of the most active volunteers for the United States military. Speaker 3:Uh, my dad went to cal Berkeley and so that's how my family got here. He actually wanted to fly my mom to Oklahoma to have me and my brother born there because we were the, the first generations [00:27:00] not born in Oklahoma since we were relocated there as a tribe. I went to school at California State University, East Bay and created a degree in American Indian pre-law because I knew that Indian law was what I wanted to do with my life. I remember ever since I was a kid, I would learn about the Indian policy. I would learn about sacred sites and it was something that would oftentimes have moved me to tears. And I knew it was something that I was passionate about. And when I started getting involved with Karena, one of the first sacred sites that I really sat down and worked for was in Cigar Tay, which was in Vallejo in 2011. Speaker 3:[00:27:30] And ever since then, it's been kind of hard to, to not follow my responsibilities, uh, to not follow the privileges that I've been given in this life, whether it be economic privileges of where I was born, but also my history of how my people got here to California, whether it be the Indian side or the English side, taking a step back from the Indian ancestry. For me, just as somebody who was born in Oakland, we need to look around and see the sacred sites that are around us. We need to know the history people lived here for [00:28:00] thousands of years before us and they're still here. And so part of that is acknowledging sacred sites and is knowing where these places are and what they mean. Our generation, I feel overwhelmingly has realized we're now coming to grips with our colonized history as colonizers, as people who participated in the colonization of North America and who also participated in the colonization of California. And we're realizing that we're on stolen land and some people call it guilt. That's one way of thinking about it, but it's [00:28:30] that we have to be more conscious. We have to think and we have to respect the people who are here now and the people here before us. And when you think about how long Berkeley has been a city compared to the 5,700 years that the west Berkeley Shell mound has been there, it's just a drop in the bucket. Speaker 2:So anyone listening today, I'm going to encourage people to go onto the Facebook page, west Berkeley show mouth, um, and to download the letters and to email it and to Shannon Allen's at the city planning, but not only for them to do it. I need them to get [00:29:00] five to 10 people, other people to do it. So if you're sitting at your office, you're listening to this, you have your coworkers, you have your mom, your dad, whoever it is that you know that's close to you and say, this is the right thing to do. As citizens of Berkeley, as citizens in the United States, that the Aloni people deserve to have this place saved. And that we can also ask the zoning board to actually change the zoning of that particular site, even though it's private property to make it a place that's actually open [00:29:30] space. If you want to make that a comment, ask the zoning board to make it a place that doesn't ever get built upon, that it stays open space and that they could rezone that particular lot to do. Just that. Speaker 1:Stop what you're doing. Grab a pen, get involved. I appreciate your energy today, so thank you Trina. Google. Thank you, Chris. Thank you so much. Thank you. You've been listening to method to the madness. You can find all of our podcasts on iTunes university. [00:30:00] Tune in again next Friday at noon. [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Drought, surface and groundwater in California, the Human Right to Water Act, the environmental impact of the Delta Tunnels Project and Center for Biological Diversity, Nestle's water permit in the San Bernardino National Forest. Discussion with Courtney A. Davis about the impact and severity of the drought and the legal and regulatory framework respecting the allocation of surface and groundwater in California, the Human Right to Water Act, the environmental impact of the Delta Tunnels Project and Center for Biological Diversity et. al. v United States Forest Service et. al. respecting Nestle's permit for diverting and transmitting water from the West Fork of Strawberry Creek in the San Bernardino National Forest. Courtney A. Davis is an Associate with Allen & Matkins practicing water, land use and energy law. Courtney's water practice includes regulatory compliance, water rights permitting and basin management planning. For More Info:http://www.communitywatercenter.org/state_water_board_adopts_resolutionhttp://www.communitywatercenter.org/human_right_to_waterhttp://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/pdfs/NestleComplaint_10-13-2015.pdfhttp://www.leginfo.ca.gov/http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CAhttp://waterinthewest.stanford.edu/groundwater/overview/index.html#chapter-1http://www.stopthetunnels.org/about/https://www.propublica.org/article/as-one-of-its-chief-sources-of-water-dries-up-california-eases-restrictions

Tim Pine of the Environment Health and Safety office at UCB and Tyler Grinberg, UCB student and creek restoration coordinator, discuss efforts to restore Strawberry Creek on the UC property. The creek restoration is a volunteer effort.TranscriptSpeaker 1: [inaudible].Speaker 2: Welcome to spectrum the science [00:00:30] and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program with a local events calendar, news and interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists. My name is Brad Swift. Today's interview is with Tim Pine and Tyler Grinberg. They join us to talk about the efforts to restore strawberry creek at UC Berkeley. Tim Pine is a staff member of the environment health [00:01:00] and safety office at UC Berkeley. Tyler Grinberg is a UC Berkeley student and creek restoration coordinator and teacher of a Strawberry Creek decal class. The creek restoration is predominantly a volunteer effort by students, community members, staff and faculty. This interview is prerecorded and edited. First of all, Speaker 3: welcome to US spectrum. Thanks for coming and go ahead, introduce yourselves. [00:01:30] Thanks for it for having me here. My name is Tim Pine. I am a, uh, officially a staff member here at cow and uh, I'm in the office of Environment, health and safety. I like to tell people that we put the e and e, h n s and that's the environmental protection group of which I am one of five for the university. And within that, that group, I'm officially the surface water quality coordinator for the campus. So simplification to be, I'm the creek guy. Speaker 4: Uh, I'm Tyler Grinberg. [00:02:00] I'm a fourth year here at Cau, although I'm not quite graduating yet to next semester I'm studying environmental education and ecology. I'm also an education minor, so I'm getting my teaching credential at the same time as my bachelor's and first Aubrey Creek. I'm a restoration coordinator and a decal coordinator. So I kind of manage our, our class on the creek and restoration efforts. Great. And Tyler, can you explain Strawberry Creek to us? So for me, strawberry creeks [00:02:30] all around us on campus, if we're on Sproul plaza, it's in some pipes that are leading to the creek. Anything we do on the campus eventually leads the Strawberry Creek. So I think the creek is all around us. But where you see the creek is up in Strawberry Canyon, uh, if you go hiking up in the fire trail, you hear it running beneath you. If you're of the botanical garden, uh, you can see it and hear it as well.Speaker 4: And then on campus specifically, we see it in several locations, you know, by the dialect scientists building in some ecological study areas on campus. And then eventually [00:03:00] if you want to go be really adventurous off campus, you can go down to university and Bonar Street and see Starboard Creek Park and there's some fun things to observe down there. And then if you really want to be adventurous, you'll go all the way down towards the bay at the end of university avenue and you see come out of a very large pipe in somewhat of an estuary. And it's a pretty big watershed too, right? That feeds it all. Not just the campus but up in the hills and exactly. I mean that's why I like to say it's all around us because anything we do [00:03:30] along campus will eventually find its way to somewhere in strawberry creek. So I only can think of it just as the water you see flowing, but also all the interactions are happening around the creek as well Speaker 3: in terms of describing strawberry creek and the campus. You know, the very reason that UC Berkeley is here is because when the founding fathers of this university were looking around for a likely spot, having a water supply was a very, very important, but maybe the most important a requirement [00:04:00] for the location by the late sixties and early seventies. Water quality. It was just a bismal. I mean there was, you know, not just, um, you know, pollution coming off streets, things like that. But there were still operational discharges, there were still these legacy sewer pipes, it, and no one really knew where they went after they left the basement, you know, of dough library that were still actually, um, coming out into the creek. And it was about that time that some very critical pieces of legislation passed federally. And [00:04:30] then we're in in turn implemented at the state level. Speaker 3: And that was the clean water act. You know, it was very, very big deal in terms of forcing, um, not just Berkeley, but all urban areas to start looking at, you know, what have we done to these watercourses? They were, um, a series of pretty dramatic discharges to the creek where it started to get the notice of local agencies, you know, the regional water quality control board, which was, you know, relatively new at that time. At the same time. [00:05:00] That was about when we had that very vibrant, you know, kind of the first modern ecology movement. And, uh, the camps community said, look, we can't let this continue. So it was a combination of regulation and also citizens desire to start doing something about this creek, you know, which definitely in need of some work. Uh, you know, I like to give a lot of credit to a fellow by the name of Bob Charbonneau, who actually still works for the UC. He works in the office of the president and he, uh, came to cau as a Grad student in the late eighties. [00:05:30] He decided to make it part of his graduate studies to put together this management plan. So, uh, the Strawberry Creek Management Plan new, which was officially adopted in 1987 is still our guiding document for my department's management and restoration of the creek. And it's really a wonderful document. It's actually been, um, copied or used as a template for other watersheds across the United States and I suspect in other countries. That's been Speaker 4: a really fabulous document to keep looking [00:06:00] back at Speaker 5: [inaudible]. You're listening to spectrum on KALX Berkeley. We're talking with Tim pine and Tyler Greenberg, but the strawberry creek restoration. Speaker 4: What's entailed with your restoration plan, so to speak? Well, what I really do is focus on the area around the creek [00:06:30] or their parents zone and look to restore a natural biodiversity to the area that's been lost through urbanization and invasive plant introduction. And really my, my mission, my plan is education. And I know Tim hears this a lot, but I, I feel that we can do all we want with limited resources. We have to make alterations, but unless we inform future generations of how important the creek is and how we can manage it, it's just good to go back in Arizona. Revert to this, [00:07:00] uh, never the terrible state that it has been in for the past 50, 60, a hundred years. And so unless you really take this current students, make them interested in the creek, take faculty a different colleges and make them invested in the creek or not really gonna see any major differences. Speaker 4: Um, but what I'm doing actually hands on right now is taking students out, uh, to be creaking community members as well and physically removing invasive plants and introducing native ones to the nursery program we have on campus serious story about diversity [00:07:30] of plants, which will then introduce more wildlife to the area. And how do you characterize or measure where you are in that process? The goal is what and where do you think you are in that process? Uh, as far as water quality is concerned, I think that we're getting towards the end of where we want to be. From my point of view, there's still a few things I'm concerned about and that's a lot of discharges to the creek. Um, especially of political water [00:08:00] that has chlorine in it, which can imagine from an ecological standpoint kind of kills a lower trophic level of organisms that we're actually trying to preserve in the water. Speaker 4: So funny thing, clean water going into the creek is actually detrimental to the entire system. So even this morning working on the creek, I saw a lot of discharges heading into the water. And then as far as invasive plants is concerned, I feel like we're really making headway. But I'd really like to get a lot of different people on campus, on board with what we're doing. And I feel like we only [00:08:30] tapping to a very small segment of the campus community. And so if I had to put a percent on it, I'd say we're at 50, 60% of where I want to be. Um, I really want to take on a lot of the campus. And right now we're confined to three ecological study areas on the campus to do our work and the immense invasive plants are moving or you know, very small ground cover species as opposed to revamping the entire system. Speaker 4: And I know it's not really possible right now, but I feel if we get a lot of people on board we can really do more work than [00:09:00] simply remove ivy. And do you have a, an ongoing relationship with the landscaping group that tries to keep the campus tidy in a sense? You know, and and is responsible for a lot of the flora that's around it? Most definitely. Um, Jim Warner is the head landscape architect for that campus and we're constantly in meetings with him and talking to him about what we're doing, what he um, I mean sometimes we just agree on things but it's definitely an active communication going on between us and we've had very good feedback on what [00:09:30] we've been doing from him and he's been very helpful in our restoration efforts. Of course, there are some areas on campus that we aren't doing our work because they are landscaped. Speaker 4: We are on a UC campus, but we understand that. And so we're just working wherever he can. And he's been very helpful. And I would add that the a campus grounds maintenance group, um, which is part of, of our physical planet campus services there have been really essential and it just a fabulous partner for what we've been doing. You know, they manage the grounds manager, they're in close, who's [00:10:00] very active in the sustainability community here on campus. He, uh, managed to scrounge up our very first lot of tools way back 10 years ago to kind of get us started, provided us with a gloves hand of his own stock to give to the volunteers. They coordinated with us just about every single uh, event we have. They bring us on green waste bin so that all of the vegetation that we remove goes into a composting system. Speaker 4: So I, I would consider the grounds group here to be a very essential partner of ours. And [00:10:30] it's really been exciting to, and I think for them to, they've told me that they've been very excited to see the kind of the transformation that's occurred in some of these areas. What sort of data are you trying to gather, uh, from the creek and analyze this? That's a great question. Um, you know, I think as we're starting to do restoration, we're starting to go more into actually applying a science to these areas and really doing some research. Um, and before a restoration began, there wasn't that [00:11:00] much we can do in these areas. I mean, they're called ecological study areas for a reason and I think more and more people are using them now. So Stephanie Carlson, who's a fish biologist and he called us on campus, is now doing electro fishing in the creek itself to see what types of fish are out there. Speaker 4: And she's found, uh, at least three variety of fish and some crawdads. Um, she studying flows as well, the seasonal fluxes and extreme velocity and habitat complexity. So she's doing some work there. I'm doing more work on [00:11:30] the flora around the creek for a current project to see, uh, which varieties of trees are growing next to the water. That's just a, you know, in addition to kind of the normal metrics we take, we do take regular water quality samples for things like coliform bacteria. We actually have three web enabled hydro stations on the campus, on the creeks, the south, the north fork and the Speaker 3: main stem down there by Oxford. That measure consists, you know, constantly things like temperature, [00:12:00] um, flow turbidity and conductivity. That's been incredibly helpful in seeing when there's been, um, you know, illegal discharges to the creek as well as, uh, a valuable engineering tool to see how the creek behaves during storms. So yeah, there's actually a lot of data that's coming out now and I know as Tyler mentioned, that as we kind of improve access and safety in these areas where you need a lot more data coming back. A lot of students do their senior projects from the college of natural [00:12:30] resources and even integrated biology, um, using the creek as kind of the basis for their, their, their research project. It's been fabulous to see the data coming out of these. Quite a compendium where we're developing now. Speaker 5: [inaudible] you're listening to spectrum on KALX Berkeley [00:13:00] talking with Tim Klein and Tyler Greenberg, but the strawberry creek restoration [inaudible]. Speaker 4: So of the invasive species that you're dealing with, is there a broad [00:13:30] spectrum of plants and bugs and things? What would they be? Invasive plants usually don't find a broad spectrum, which is the problem. You have a monoculture, generally one species of plant, which doesn't function well in a natural ecosystem where you want a wide diversity and species written it richness of plants and so on campus. I feel our two biggest problems for groundcover species are Ivey of both English and Algerian of varieties as well as Vinca, which is Perry Winkle. [00:14:00] Um, but I feel like those are two main ground cover plants. And then up in the canyon there's a lot of blackberry, but those are the plants who are primarily concerned with. They're moving on campus and they're actually fairly easy to remove. And once we explained to our students why we want to move these plants in, we really give them the reasons behind why we do it. They're actually very, um, encouraged to get out of be with the plants. I've seen my students not during class actually out there with their friends. We're moving plants on their own. Do you get to have any input [00:14:30] at all into the planning of the campus related to creek side changes or you know, building that might be happening are pending? Yeah, they do. They consult. That's a, a very, a fairly recent thing where Speaker 3: my group does see a proposed projects at the early stages. If we do comment on the, not the, um, the conceptual plan, but also we get copies of the design plans as they're going through their stage to final design. And [00:15:00] those plans are reviewed by each member of my team for various impacts to water quality. A very good case in point, we'd be say a building, well there's a proposed replacement for Eshelman coming up and we've been in very, very early abroad in on the design part to deal with any runoff from the rooftop, from the landscaped area and this is going to be a project and when it finally is done, that's going to [00:15:30] capture an infiltrate as much storm water run off as possible. And depending on what time of year it could be as high as a hundred percent capture and re infiltration and groundwater. Speaker 3: Those considerations were never even anywhere on the radar as as little as 10 years ago. So that's just a perfect example of, you know how having the ability to comment on these days. Seeing projects early on has really helped out Morgan stadium to Morgan stadiums that really another really great example is [00:16:00] now I'm that water collecting in the stadium is going to go through a pretreatment system and an infiltration system to both trap pollutants and to try to put as much of that water back down on the groundwater table as possible. So it's been a really a neat thing to see. Those kinds of, some of those kinds of comments be incorporated into the design. Speaker 4: And you mentioned a nursery as well. It's part of the, the whole process. Describe the nursery activity that you're doing. Yeah, and I really feel it's our third partner restoration [00:16:30] after um, assessing water quality, removing invasive plants, we finally have to reintroduce native plants. We can't just leave these areas bear. And so through a grant with the Green Initiative Fund TJF where students get a few dollars every semester voluntarily into this pool. We got a grant to build a native play nursery on campus and took about a year to build. It was finally done. We had our grand opening last Wednesday, so we had a good ceremony there. But we have one of our nursery coordinators or a restoration coordinator who also does nursery your work. David Pawn, [00:17:00] he's a third year here at cal studying environmental science and he propagates native plants right in the nursery on campus. And then once we grow this plant, students can then do the final step of restoration where they put these plants into the ground and monitor the area. Speaker 4: Where is the nursery, the nurseries in the welding courtyards. So by Jean Nini and Wellman Hall and the college onto our resources. In terms of what volunteers can do, are there things, you know, if somebody wants to be involved [00:17:30] but doesn't want to go dig up Ivy, can they help? Uh, definitely. And we, we understand students have different levels of involvement, you know, of what they actually want to actually want to do. And I think everyone should be getting their hands dirty. That's just my opinion. But we have people work in our nursery. We don't really have our volunteers do other outreach work, although I guess it's something we can think about starting to do. Speaker 3: I, you know, that's a great question because, um, you know, one of the criticisms [00:18:00] that I've been very kind of cognizant of is that we could do more in terms of the outreach part of this thing. You know, given that resources are going to be so critical to our continued, you know, health and functioning as a group. You know, I'll admit that we, we tend to put more time on the ground as Tyler mentioned because I think that's our focus. But we would love it if people who have an interest in marketing and outreach people in publication though. Absolutely. We would welcome any skillset. I'm sure we can apply it to um, [00:18:30] the restoration program and were born very inserted in hearing any ideas that people have. Is there any point that you guys wanted to make? Speaker 4: Do either of you, one of the points I wanted to make, I'm not sure if I made it earlier, is that how important it is for us to take stewardship of our local environment. In my environmental science classes, I've actually learned a bit about how native Americans were stewards of their environments. That's really why California looks the way it does now. All these, what we call the native plants is because native Americans [00:19:00] tend to those plants and create a series of events that allowed those plants to be successful. And so when a student comes here as a freshman, I think that's just as important to learn about how to use telomeres as it is to learn about the native plants we have on campus. I know it sounds really corny, but after they work with us, they look at the creek a different way because when you work on the water, when you work in the right parents zone, something does change in you. You have a sense of ownership of the environment. That's what we need and so I think [00:19:30] as a campus we need to ensure at least after I'm gone and even while I'm here, that all students become stewards of Strawberry Creek and the local watershed. Thank you both for coming today and talking with us. Thank you very much. Speaker 3: Which was my pleasure. I could talk about the creek all day long. Speaker 1: [inaudible] [inaudible] Speaker 6: [00:20:00] to contact or volunteer for the Strawberry Creek Restoration. Visit their website, Strawberry creek.berkeley.edu as always, you can contact spectrum if you want this contact information. Speaker 1: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [00:20:30] a regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. The June Science at Cau lecture will given at 11:00 AM Speaker 2: on June 18th in the genetics and plant biology building room 100 the June 18th talk will be given by Terry Johnson and is entitled synthetic biology [00:21:00] beating the cell at its own game. Bioengineering lecturer Terry Johnson received the Spring 2011 outstanding instructor award from the Bio Engineering Honor Society. He was also awarded the 2011 outstanding faculty of the Year award and named an eminent engineer by the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. Join the center for Biological Diversity and the Ecology Center for a presentation on [00:21:30] the clean air act and how it may be our best hope against climate change. The title of the presentation is the clean air act and global warming, how it works, why we need it and what we can do to support it. This presentation is free. The presentation will be Wednesday, June 22nd 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the Ecology Center, which is at 25 30 San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute [00:22:00] or Ambari is holding an open house on Saturday, June 25th this event is free. Speaker 2: The Ambari open house features science and technology exhibits deep sea videos, research presentations, robotic submarines, children's activities, ocean career information, and much more Ambari staff scientists and engineers will share their excitement about the institutes work. Visitors can view a remotely operated vehicle [00:22:30] and some of their autonomous underwater vehicles and Baris research vessels will also be on view at the dock with related displays. Visitors can also find out about the Monterey Bay aquarium's Seafood Watch program and a new marine environmental organization. The center for Ocean Solutions. The Open House is Saturday, June 25th from noon until 5:00 PM the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is located at [00:23:00] 7,700 sand Holt road, moss landing, California. Their website is ambari.org the link to the open house is found under news briefs. Now some stories in the news. The journal Science has given its May science prize for online resources and education or spore award to the periodic table of videos. Speaker 2: Science editorial fellow Melissa McCartney says the videos are an entertaining [00:23:30] mix of experiments and anecdotes and are aimed at anyone with a curiosity for chemistry. No prior knowledge on the part of the viewer as needed. The chemistry themed videos are produced by University of Nottingham Professor Martin Poliakoff, journalist Heron Chemist Pete licence, Steve Ladelle and Debbie ks and lab technician Neil Barnes. The periodic table of videos was conceived in 2008 after heron tape Poliakoff as part of another series [00:24:00] of videos called the test tube project. They decided to collaborate on the periodic table of elements and within about five weeks the videos for all 118 elements had been uploaded to youtube. The periodic table of videos continues to grow with videos about chemistry topics beyond the elements such as segments that play off the news. The site now hosts more than 300 videos. The videos can be viewed on youtube search for periodic table of videos. Speaker 2: [00:24:30] They may also be viewed@thewebsiteperiodicvideos.com which is helpful at schools where youtube is blocked. The American Association for the Advancement of Science website reports that an American research team has succeeded in high tech grand survey of ancient Egyptian settlements, tombs and pyramids by analyzing high resolution satellite imagery covering all of Egypt. Researchers have reportedly discovered up to 17 lost pyramids, nearly 3000 ancient [00:25:00] settlements and 1000 tunes. The effort was led by archeologists, Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama Birmingham Parcak began her study 11 years ago searching for traces of ancient village walls buried under Egypt's fields and desert sands obtaining images from both NASA and quickbird satellites. She combined an analyze data from the visible imagery as well as from the infrared and thermal parts of the light spectrum. [00:25:30] Through trial and error, she discovered that the most informative images were taken during the relatively wet weeks of late winter. During this period, buried mud brick walls absorbed more moisture than usual producing a subtle chemical signature in the overlying soil that showed up in high resolution infrared satellite images to further test. Speaker 2: Some of the most recent satellite finds. Park enlisted the help of a French archeological team already digging at the 3000 year old site [00:26:00] known as Tannis Park Act says they found an almost 100% correlation between what we see on the imagery and what we see on the ground. In the wake of the fines, the Egyptian government reached an agreement to work with Park and others, American researchers to develop a nationwide satellite imagery project to monitor archaeological sites from space and protect them from looting and illegal house construction and other encroachments park says of the agreement. We are going to be teaching [00:26:30] young Egyptians how to look at the satellite data and analyze it so they can keep an eye on the sites. She and her colleagues plan to raise funds privately to support the effort. This item from the UC Berkeley News Center website written by Robert Sanders, a new initiative for citizen scientists and the crowdsourcing of ecosystem observation has been launched named the global amphibian blitz. Speaker 2: Any adventurer, hiker or backyard naturalist where the camera can help scientists survey [00:27:00] and hopefully save the world's amphibians. Thanks to a new social networking site that links citizen scientists with researchers tracking the decline of Amphibians around the globe. The global amphibian blitz is a new partnership between the University of California Berkeley's Amphibia web and six other amphibian groups. The new website is provided by I naturalist.org a bay area social network for naturalists. The website allows amateur naturalists from [00:27:30] around the world to submit their amphibian photographs along with dates and gps locations. The project is curated by a team of scientists who will identify and filter the submissions in search of rare species or out of range occurrences of interest to scientific and conservation communities in an effort to protect the data from commercial collectors and others who would exploit the information. The exact whereabouts are rare and endangered amphibians are obscured to all but the scientific community. [00:28:00] The website can be reached by going to eye naturalist.org/projects and click on the global amphibian blitz. That's I naturalist.org there is also a youtube video explaining the project to find it. Search for a global amphibian blitz Speaker 1: [inaudible].Speaker 6: [00:28:30] The music heard during the show is spineless. Donna David from his album, folk and acoustic, made available through a creative Commons license. 3.0 attribution editing assistance was provided by Judith White, Marcel [inaudible] and Gretchen Sanderson. Speaker 1: [00:29:00] [inaudible]. 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Tim Pine of the Environment Health and Safety office at UCB and Tyler Grinberg, UCB student and creek restoration coordinator, discuss efforts to restore Strawberry Creek on the UC property. The creek restoration is a volunteer effort.TranscriptSpeaker 1: [inaudible].Speaker 2: Welcome to spectrum the science [00:00:30] and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program with a local events calendar, news and interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists. My name is Brad Swift. Today's interview is with Tim Pine and Tyler Grinberg. They join us to talk about the efforts to restore strawberry creek at UC Berkeley. Tim Pine is a staff member of the environment health [00:01:00] and safety office at UC Berkeley. Tyler Grinberg is a UC Berkeley student and creek restoration coordinator and teacher of a Strawberry Creek decal class. The creek restoration is predominantly a volunteer effort by students, community members, staff and faculty. This interview is prerecorded and edited. First of all, Speaker 3: welcome to US spectrum. Thanks for coming and go ahead, introduce yourselves. [00:01:30] Thanks for it for having me here. My name is Tim Pine. I am a, uh, officially a staff member here at cow and uh, I'm in the office of Environment, health and safety. I like to tell people that we put the e and e, h n s and that's the environmental protection group of which I am one of five for the university. And within that, that group, I'm officially the surface water quality coordinator for the campus. So simplification to be, I'm the creek guy. Speaker 4: Uh, I'm Tyler Grinberg. [00:02:00] I'm a fourth year here at Cau, although I'm not quite graduating yet to next semester I'm studying environmental education and ecology. I'm also an education minor, so I'm getting my teaching credential at the same time as my bachelor's and first Aubrey Creek. I'm a restoration coordinator and a decal coordinator. So I kind of manage our, our class on the creek and restoration efforts. Great. And Tyler, can you explain Strawberry Creek to us? So for me, strawberry creeks [00:02:30] all around us on campus, if we're on Sproul plaza, it's in some pipes that are leading to the creek. Anything we do on the campus eventually leads the Strawberry Creek. So I think the creek is all around us. But where you see the creek is up in Strawberry Canyon, uh, if you go hiking up in the fire trail, you hear it running beneath you. If you're of the botanical garden, uh, you can see it and hear it as well.Speaker 4: And then on campus specifically, we see it in several locations, you know, by the dialect scientists building in some ecological study areas on campus. And then eventually [00:03:00] if you want to go be really adventurous off campus, you can go down to university and Bonar Street and see Starboard Creek Park and there's some fun things to observe down there. And then if you really want to be adventurous, you'll go all the way down towards the bay at the end of university avenue and you see come out of a very large pipe in somewhat of an estuary. And it's a pretty big watershed too, right? That feeds it all. Not just the campus but up in the hills and exactly. I mean that's why I like to say it's all around us because anything we do [00:03:30] along campus will eventually find its way to somewhere in strawberry creek. So I only can think of it just as the water you see flowing, but also all the interactions are happening around the creek as well Speaker 3: in terms of describing strawberry creek and the campus. You know, the very reason that UC Berkeley is here is because when the founding fathers of this university were looking around for a likely spot, having a water supply was a very, very important, but maybe the most important a requirement [00:04:00] for the location by the late sixties and early seventies. Water quality. It was just a bismal. I mean there was, you know, not just, um, you know, pollution coming off streets, things like that. But there were still operational discharges, there were still these legacy sewer pipes, it, and no one really knew where they went after they left the basement, you know, of dough library that were still actually, um, coming out into the creek. And it was about that time that some very critical pieces of legislation passed federally. And [00:04:30] then we're in in turn implemented at the state level. Speaker 3: And that was the clean water act. You know, it was very, very big deal in terms of forcing, um, not just Berkeley, but all urban areas to start looking at, you know, what have we done to these watercourses? They were, um, a series of pretty dramatic discharges to the creek where it started to get the notice of local agencies, you know, the regional water quality control board, which was, you know, relatively new at that time. At the same time. [00:05:00] That was about when we had that very vibrant, you know, kind of the first modern ecology movement. And, uh, the camps community said, look, we can't let this continue. So it was a combination of regulation and also citizens desire to start doing something about this creek, you know, which definitely in need of some work. Uh, you know, I like to give a lot of credit to a fellow by the name of Bob Charbonneau, who actually still works for the UC. He works in the office of the president and he, uh, came to cau as a Grad student in the late eighties. [00:05:30] He decided to make it part of his graduate studies to put together this management plan. So, uh, the Strawberry Creek Management Plan new, which was officially adopted in 1987 is still our guiding document for my department's management and restoration of the creek. And it's really a wonderful document. It's actually been, um, copied or used as a template for other watersheds across the United States and I suspect in other countries. That's been Speaker 4: a really fabulous document to keep looking [00:06:00] back at Speaker 5: [inaudible]. You're listening to spectrum on KALX Berkeley. We're talking with Tim pine and Tyler Greenberg, but the strawberry creek restoration. Speaker 4: What's entailed with your restoration plan, so to speak? Well, what I really do is focus on the area around the creek [00:06:30] or their parents zone and look to restore a natural biodiversity to the area that's been lost through urbanization and invasive plant introduction. And really my, my mission, my plan is education. And I know Tim hears this a lot, but I, I feel that we can do all we want with limited resources. We have to make alterations, but unless we inform future generations of how important the creek is and how we can manage it, it's just good to go back in Arizona. Revert to this, [00:07:00] uh, never the terrible state that it has been in for the past 50, 60, a hundred years. And so unless you really take this current students, make them interested in the creek, take faculty a different colleges and make them invested in the creek or not really gonna see any major differences. Speaker 4: Um, but what I'm doing actually hands on right now is taking students out, uh, to be creaking community members as well and physically removing invasive plants and introducing native ones to the nursery program we have on campus serious story about diversity [00:07:30] of plants, which will then introduce more wildlife to the area. And how do you characterize or measure where you are in that process? The goal is what and where do you think you are in that process? Uh, as far as water quality is concerned, I think that we're getting towards the end of where we want to be. From my point of view, there's still a few things I'm concerned about and that's a lot of discharges to the creek. Um, especially of political water [00:08:00] that has chlorine in it, which can imagine from an ecological standpoint kind of kills a lower trophic level of organisms that we're actually trying to preserve in the water. Speaker 4: So funny thing, clean water going into the creek is actually detrimental to the entire system. So even this morning working on the creek, I saw a lot of discharges heading into the water. And then as far as invasive plants is concerned, I feel like we're really making headway. But I'd really like to get a lot of different people on campus, on board with what we're doing. And I feel like we only [00:08:30] tapping to a very small segment of the campus community. And so if I had to put a percent on it, I'd say we're at 50, 60% of where I want to be. Um, I really want to take on a lot of the campus. And right now we're confined to three ecological study areas on the campus to do our work and the immense invasive plants are moving or you know, very small ground cover species as opposed to revamping the entire system. Speaker 4: And I know it's not really possible right now, but I feel if we get a lot of people on board we can really do more work than [00:09:00] simply remove ivy. And do you have a, an ongoing relationship with the landscaping group that tries to keep the campus tidy in a sense? You know, and and is responsible for a lot of the flora that's around it? Most definitely. Um, Jim Warner is the head landscape architect for that campus and we're constantly in meetings with him and talking to him about what we're doing, what he um, I mean sometimes we just agree on things but it's definitely an active communication going on between us and we've had very good feedback on what [00:09:30] we've been doing from him and he's been very helpful in our restoration efforts. Of course, there are some areas on campus that we aren't doing our work because they are landscaped. Speaker 4: We are on a UC campus, but we understand that. And so we're just working wherever he can. And he's been very helpful. And I would add that the a campus grounds maintenance group, um, which is part of, of our physical planet campus services there have been really essential and it just a fabulous partner for what we've been doing. You know, they manage the grounds manager, they're in close, who's [00:10:00] very active in the sustainability community here on campus. He, uh, managed to scrounge up our very first lot of tools way back 10 years ago to kind of get us started, provided us with a gloves hand of his own stock to give to the volunteers. They coordinated with us just about every single uh, event we have. They bring us on green waste bin so that all of the vegetation that we remove goes into a composting system. Speaker 4: So I, I would consider the grounds group here to be a very essential partner of ours. And [00:10:30] it's really been exciting to, and I think for them to, they've told me that they've been very excited to see the kind of the transformation that's occurred in some of these areas. What sort of data are you trying to gather, uh, from the creek and analyze this? That's a great question. Um, you know, I think as we're starting to do restoration, we're starting to go more into actually applying a science to these areas and really doing some research. Um, and before a restoration began, there wasn't that [00:11:00] much we can do in these areas. I mean, they're called ecological study areas for a reason and I think more and more people are using them now. So Stephanie Carlson, who's a fish biologist and he called us on campus, is now doing electro fishing in the creek itself to see what types of fish are out there. Speaker 4: And she's found, uh, at least three variety of fish and some crawdads. Um, she studying flows as well, the seasonal fluxes and extreme velocity and habitat complexity. So she's doing some work there. I'm doing more work on [00:11:30] the flora around the creek for a current project to see, uh, which varieties of trees are growing next to the water. That's just a, you know, in addition to kind of the normal metrics we take, we do take regular water quality samples for things like coliform bacteria. We actually have three web enabled hydro stations on the campus, on the creeks, the south, the north fork and the Speaker 3: main stem down there by Oxford. That measure consists, you know, constantly things like temperature, [00:12:00] um, flow turbidity and conductivity. That's been incredibly helpful in seeing when there's been, um, you know, illegal discharges to the creek as well as, uh, a valuable engineering tool to see how the creek behaves during storms. So yeah, there's actually a lot of data that's coming out now and I know as Tyler mentioned, that as we kind of improve access and safety in these areas where you need a lot more data coming back. A lot of students do their senior projects from the college of natural [00:12:30] resources and even integrated biology, um, using the creek as kind of the basis for their, their, their research project. It's been fabulous to see the data coming out of these. Quite a compendium where we're developing now. Speaker 5: [inaudible] you're listening to spectrum on KALX Berkeley [00:13:00] talking with Tim Klein and Tyler Greenberg, but the strawberry creek restoration [inaudible]. Speaker 4: So of the invasive species that you're dealing with, is there a broad [00:13:30] spectrum of plants and bugs and things? What would they be? Invasive plants usually don't find a broad spectrum, which is the problem. You have a monoculture, generally one species of plant, which doesn't function well in a natural ecosystem where you want a wide diversity and species written it richness of plants and so on campus. I feel our two biggest problems for groundcover species are Ivey of both English and Algerian of varieties as well as Vinca, which is Perry Winkle. [00:14:00] Um, but I feel like those are two main ground cover plants. And then up in the canyon there's a lot of blackberry, but those are the plants who are primarily concerned with. They're moving on campus and they're actually fairly easy to remove. And once we explained to our students why we want to move these plants in, we really give them the reasons behind why we do it. They're actually very, um, encouraged to get out of be with the plants. I've seen my students not during class actually out there with their friends. We're moving plants on their own. Do you get to have any input [00:14:30] at all into the planning of the campus related to creek side changes or you know, building that might be happening are pending? Yeah, they do. They consult. That's a, a very, a fairly recent thing where Speaker 3: my group does see a proposed projects at the early stages. If we do comment on the, not the, um, the conceptual plan, but also we get copies of the design plans as they're going through their stage to final design. And [00:15:00] those plans are reviewed by each member of my team for various impacts to water quality. A very good case in point, we'd be say a building, well there's a proposed replacement for Eshelman coming up and we've been in very, very early abroad in on the design part to deal with any runoff from the rooftop, from the landscaped area and this is going to be a project and when it finally is done, that's going to [00:15:30] capture an infiltrate as much storm water run off as possible. And depending on what time of year it could be as high as a hundred percent capture and re infiltration and groundwater. Speaker 3: Those considerations were never even anywhere on the radar as as little as 10 years ago. So that's just a perfect example of, you know how having the ability to comment on these days. Seeing projects early on has really helped out Morgan stadium to Morgan stadiums that really another really great example is [00:16:00] now I'm that water collecting in the stadium is going to go through a pretreatment system and an infiltration system to both trap pollutants and to try to put as much of that water back down on the groundwater table as possible. So it's been a really a neat thing to see. Those kinds of, some of those kinds of comments be incorporated into the design. Speaker 4: And you mentioned a nursery as well. It's part of the, the whole process. Describe the nursery activity that you're doing. Yeah, and I really feel it's our third partner restoration [00:16:30] after um, assessing water quality, removing invasive plants, we finally have to reintroduce native plants. We can't just leave these areas bear. And so through a grant with the Green Initiative Fund TJF where students get a few dollars every semester voluntarily into this pool. We got a grant to build a native play nursery on campus and took about a year to build. It was finally done. We had our grand opening last Wednesday, so we had a good ceremony there. But we have one of our nursery coordinators or a restoration coordinator who also does nursery your work. David Pawn, [00:17:00] he's a third year here at cal studying environmental science and he propagates native plants right in the nursery on campus. And then once we grow this plant, students can then do the final step of restoration where they put these plants into the ground and monitor the area. Speaker 4: Where is the nursery, the nurseries in the welding courtyards. So by Jean Nini and Wellman Hall and the college onto our resources. In terms of what volunteers can do, are there things, you know, if somebody wants to be involved [00:17:30] but doesn't want to go dig up Ivy, can they help? Uh, definitely. And we, we understand students have different levels of involvement, you know, of what they actually want to actually want to do. And I think everyone should be getting their hands dirty. That's just my opinion. But we have people work in our nursery. We don't really have our volunteers do other outreach work, although I guess it's something we can think about starting to do. Speaker 3: I, you know, that's a great question because, um, you know, one of the criticisms [00:18:00] that I've been very kind of cognizant of is that we could do more in terms of the outreach part of this thing. You know, given that resources are going to be so critical to our continued, you know, health and functioning as a group. You know, I'll admit that we, we tend to put more time on the ground as Tyler mentioned because I think that's our focus. But we would love it if people who have an interest in marketing and outreach people in publication though. Absolutely. We would welcome any skillset. I'm sure we can apply it to um, [00:18:30] the restoration program and were born very inserted in hearing any ideas that people have. Is there any point that you guys wanted to make? Speaker 4: Do either of you, one of the points I wanted to make, I'm not sure if I made it earlier, is that how important it is for us to take stewardship of our local environment. In my environmental science classes, I've actually learned a bit about how native Americans were stewards of their environments. That's really why California looks the way it does now. All these, what we call the native plants is because native Americans [00:19:00] tend to those plants and create a series of events that allowed those plants to be successful. And so when a student comes here as a freshman, I think that's just as important to learn about how to use telomeres as it is to learn about the native plants we have on campus. I know it sounds really corny, but after they work with us, they look at the creek a different way because when you work on the water, when you work in the right parents zone, something does change in you. You have a sense of ownership of the environment. That's what we need and so I think [00:19:30] as a campus we need to ensure at least after I'm gone and even while I'm here, that all students become stewards of Strawberry Creek and the local watershed. Thank you both for coming today and talking with us. Thank you very much. Speaker 3: Which was my pleasure. I could talk about the creek all day long. Speaker 1: [inaudible] [inaudible] Speaker 6: [00:20:00] to contact or volunteer for the Strawberry Creek Restoration. Visit their website, Strawberry creek.berkeley.edu as always, you can contact spectrum if you want this contact information. Speaker 1: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [00:20:30] a regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. The June Science at Cau lecture will given at 11:00 AM Speaker 2: on June 18th in the genetics and plant biology building room 100 the June 18th talk will be given by Terry Johnson and is entitled synthetic biology [00:21:00] beating the cell at its own game. Bioengineering lecturer Terry Johnson received the Spring 2011 outstanding instructor award from the Bio Engineering Honor Society. He was also awarded the 2011 outstanding faculty of the Year award and named an eminent engineer by the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. Join the center for Biological Diversity and the Ecology Center for a presentation on [00:21:30] the clean air act and how it may be our best hope against climate change. The title of the presentation is the clean air act and global warming, how it works, why we need it and what we can do to support it. This presentation is free. The presentation will be Wednesday, June 22nd 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the Ecology Center, which is at 25 30 San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute [00:22:00] or Ambari is holding an open house on Saturday, June 25th this event is free. Speaker 2: The Ambari open house features science and technology exhibits deep sea videos, research presentations, robotic submarines, children's activities, ocean career information, and much more Ambari staff scientists and engineers will share their excitement about the institutes work. Visitors can view a remotely operated vehicle [00:22:30] and some of their autonomous underwater vehicles and Baris research vessels will also be on view at the dock with related displays. Visitors can also find out about the Monterey Bay aquarium's Seafood Watch program and a new marine environmental organization. The center for Ocean Solutions. The Open House is Saturday, June 25th from noon until 5:00 PM the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is located at [00:23:00] 7,700 sand Holt road, moss landing, California. Their website is ambari.org the link to the open house is found under news briefs. Now some stories in the news. The journal Science has given its May science prize for online resources and education or spore award to the periodic table of videos. Speaker 2: Science editorial fellow Melissa McCartney says the videos are an entertaining [00:23:30] mix of experiments and anecdotes and are aimed at anyone with a curiosity for chemistry. No prior knowledge on the part of the viewer as needed. The chemistry themed videos are produced by University of Nottingham Professor Martin Poliakoff, journalist Heron Chemist Pete licence, Steve Ladelle and Debbie ks and lab technician Neil Barnes. The periodic table of videos was conceived in 2008 after heron tape Poliakoff as part of another series [00:24:00] of videos called the test tube project. They decided to collaborate on the periodic table of elements and within about five weeks the videos for all 118 elements had been uploaded to youtube. The periodic table of videos continues to grow with videos about chemistry topics beyond the elements such as segments that play off the news. The site now hosts more than 300 videos. The videos can be viewed on youtube search for periodic table of videos. Speaker 2: [00:24:30] They may also be viewed@thewebsiteperiodicvideos.com which is helpful at schools where youtube is blocked. The American Association for the Advancement of Science website reports that an American research team has succeeded in high tech grand survey of ancient Egyptian settlements, tombs and pyramids by analyzing high resolution satellite imagery covering all of Egypt. Researchers have reportedly discovered up to 17 lost pyramids, nearly 3000 ancient [00:25:00] settlements and 1000 tunes. The effort was led by archeologists, Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama Birmingham Parcak began her study 11 years ago searching for traces of ancient village walls buried under Egypt's fields and desert sands obtaining images from both NASA and quickbird satellites. She combined an analyze data from the visible imagery as well as from the infrared and thermal parts of the light spectrum. [00:25:30] Through trial and error, she discovered that the most informative images were taken during the relatively wet weeks of late winter. During this period, buried mud brick walls absorbed more moisture than usual producing a subtle chemical signature in the overlying soil that showed up in high resolution infrared satellite images to further test. Speaker 2: Some of the most recent satellite finds. Park enlisted the help of a French archeological team already digging at the 3000 year old site [00:26:00] known as Tannis Park Act says they found an almost 100% correlation between what we see on the imagery and what we see on the ground. In the wake of the fines, the Egyptian government reached an agreement to work with Park and others, American researchers to develop a nationwide satellite imagery project to monitor archaeological sites from space and protect them from looting and illegal house construction and other encroachments park says of the agreement. We are going to be teaching [00:26:30] young Egyptians how to look at the satellite data and analyze it so they can keep an eye on the sites. She and her colleagues plan to raise funds privately to support the effort. This item from the UC Berkeley News Center website written by Robert Sanders, a new initiative for citizen scientists and the crowdsourcing of ecosystem observation has been launched named the global amphibian blitz. Speaker 2: Any adventurer, hiker or backyard naturalist where the camera can help scientists survey [00:27:00] and hopefully save the world's amphibians. Thanks to a new social networking site that links citizen scientists with researchers tracking the decline of Amphibians around the globe. The global amphibian blitz is a new partnership between the University of California Berkeley's Amphibia web and six other amphibian groups. The new website is provided by I naturalist.org a bay area social network for naturalists. The website allows amateur naturalists from [00:27:30] around the world to submit their amphibian photographs along with dates and gps locations. The project is curated by a team of scientists who will identify and filter the submissions in search of rare species or out of range occurrences of interest to scientific and conservation communities in an effort to protect the data from commercial collectors and others who would exploit the information. The exact whereabouts are rare and endangered amphibians are obscured to all but the scientific community. [00:28:00] The website can be reached by going to eye naturalist.org/projects and click on the global amphibian blitz. That's I naturalist.org there is also a youtube video explaining the project to find it. Search for a global amphibian blitz Speaker 1: [inaudible].Speaker 6: [00:28:30] The music heard during the show is spineless. Donna David from his album, folk and acoustic, made available through a creative Commons license. 3.0 attribution editing assistance was provided by Judith White, Marcel [inaudible] and Gretchen Sanderson. Speaker 1: [00:29:00] [inaudible]. 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