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Focused on, near and under Oakland, California since 2007

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Recent work at Glen Echo Creek

Since March 2022 when I covered Glen Echo Creek in detail, the city and citizens have been making improvements. Like many Oakland streams, Glen Echo Creek is overgrown with invasive non-natives like broom and ivy plus other opportunistic plants, some of which are all right. This post looks at Oak Glen Park, the creek s longest [ ]

Piedmont’s big-two rock quarries: a geology walk

This is a walk I led recently, and I like it so much I m writing it down. As we visit these two major former quarries in the Piedmont bedrock block, we explore some distinctive terrain created during the Pleistocene epoch. We also experience how this beautiful landscape appealed to the people who developed this part [ ]