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Fuels, Fire and Restoration in the Berkeley Hills
An emotional and cultural debate has emerged over the removal of fuels in the East Bay Hills. This large scale FEMA-funded project is intended to reduce risk of catastrophic fire in the East Bay. Human development within, and at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Claremont Canyon, East Bay, FEMA, fire, fuels, fuels reduction, Restoration
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Happy Earth Day – A Report on Projects, Partners and Awards
This is the 43rd annual Earth Day we’ve celebrated in the US. And it goes without saying, this is Golden Hour’s favorite holiday. The engagement of people with the earth and all things green and dirty is always good. And … Continue reading
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Mission Blue Crew kickoff workday – April 2nd
On Tuesday April 2nd from 10am to 1pm, Lech Naumovich, Liam O’Brien, and the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department will be hosting a service-based learning workshop about the federally threatened Mission Blue Butterfly. We are looking for a small … Continue reading
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Tagged Golden Hour, Lech Naumovich, Liam O'Brien, MBB, Mission Blue butterfly, Natural Areas, San Francisco, SFRP, stewardship
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Fuels safety, Volunteerism, and Restoration in Claremont Canyon
We’re very lucky to be involved with the Claremont Canyon Conservancy as they look to better understand how fuels maintenance will impact wildlands near their homes – both from a fuels safety perspective and from a habitat perspective. We took … Continue reading
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Tagged Claremont Canyon, conservancy, cooperation, cooperative, EBRPD, fire, fuels, Golden Hour, Lech Naumovich, Oakland, vegetation
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A Restoration Workshop that Deserves Celebrating
Now that we’ve completed two successful restoration workshops in Garber Park (hosted with Garber Park Stewards and financial support coming from Claremont Canyon Conservancy for the first day), we’ve decided to celebrate a bit. So turn-up your speakers and dive … Continue reading
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Passive Restoration Workshop – Oakland CA – January 19th
We will be offering a very unique workshop, sponsored by the Garber Park Stewards, which isn’t available anywhere else. Golden Hour Restoration Institute uses restoration techniques that reuse resources found on-site. In the case of this project site in Oakland, … Continue reading
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Fundraising for a Successful 2013 – We need your help!
Dear friends, 2012 has been truly amazing. We’ve been overwhelmed with the partnerships we’ve formed and the new friends we’ve met along the way. We helped conduct surveys, contribute data, created informational brochures, and train professionals about threats of Sudden … Continue reading
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Get Your Monarch Training at Natural Bridges!
This is an outstanding workshop sponsored by a number of monarch groups including Monarch Watch and Xerces Society. If you have the chance, we highly recommend this training for estimating monarch over-wintering colonies. It is located in gorgeous Natural Bridges … Continue reading
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Garber Park Restoration Series Kickoff – December 15th!
We are so happy to be continuing our work with Garber Park Stewards. They have graciously offered to host three more plantings with some important financial support from the Claremont Canyon Conservancy. GPS is a dedicated group of volunteers in … Continue reading
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A Successful Creek to Bay Day in Garber Park, Oakland
Golden Hour Restoration Institute teamed up with Garber Park Stewards and many enthusiastic volunteers working to help push the vegetation of Harwood Creek (Claremont Canyon) towards a higher percent cover of native plants while reducing the impact of erosion and … Continue reading
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