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Photos of UC Centennial Drive project

Photos taken near the intersection of Grizzly Peak and Centennial earlier this week. Some might refer to this as a clearcut.

UC vegetation management roadmap-appeal of Federal Court judgement

UC has posted their roadmaps for vegetation mananagement in the hill campus. We've added it to our documents section for your...

Global warming, in a nutshell

Here's a great piece from the NYT....please share https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/climate/what-is-climate-change.html

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...

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....

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...

Sudden oak death is getting worse

There is a growing body of evidence that the incidence of sudden oak death is expanding rapidly. While we wish this wasn't happening, the...

Oakland begins the EIR process

Wanted to let you know that the City of Oakland has announced the initiation of an EIR to analyze their woodland fuels management plan....

What we can learn from a 16 year old

HCN has been fighting those who would decimate our local forests for over a decade. The words of this brave 16 year old capture the...