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    Big victory in the UC versus FEMA lawsuit

    In the long-running effort to prevent UC from clearcutting the "Hill Campus", last week we received some great news. The Federal Magistrate hearing the case agreed with FEMA and HCN that the lawsuit that UC filed attempting to undo portions of the HCN/FEMA settlement agreement was moot. In other words, it was thrown out. FEMA and HCN won! This victory was a long time coming, but it was sweet indeed. As a result of this decision, UC is not allowed to use the Biological Opinion

    Sad news

    We are sad to report the recent death of Georgia Wright, beloved board member of Hills Conservation Network for the past several years. She came to HCN after the termination of Save Strawberry Canyon, for which she had served as treasurer probably since its inception. Georgia was an activist, in her own quiet way, in the North Hills community, having served tirelessly and with complete integrity on several boards that protected the neighborhood from the encroachment of develo

    HCN submits scoping comments on Oakland and UC vegetation management EIRs

    These files have been added in the documents section of the site. https://www.hillsconservationnetwork.org/documents

    2019 year end update

    For anyone thinking about making charitable contributions before the end of the year, HCN could sure use your support! Last Thursday we spent 4 hours at the Federal Courthouse in San Francisco to participate as interveners in the UC versus FEMA lawsuit. For those who might not know, after the historic settlement agreement reached between HCN and FEMA in 2016, UC attempted to undo pieces of this agreement by suing the very agency that had previously approved a grant of federal

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