Posted by
Jill Cowan on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 02:56 am
But seriously guys, bad jokes aside, this is really sad. Someone up there must have it in for Berkeley representatives of the oak family, what with the stadium/tree-sitter infestation business … and now this?! Yep, oak trees are getting the shaft again, but this time it’s not the result of a petty human squabble–though we’re pretty sure that if we traced it back far enough, the pathogen outbreak plaguing oaks in Tilden Regional Park is probably the fault of mankind, somehow. Yeesh.
The pathogen’s M. O. reads like crappy sci-fi, especially the part where the afflicted oak starts to “ooze sap that resembles human blood from large cankers,” and then the tree’s leaves suddenly turn “from green to brown, immediately preceding the tree’s death.” Excuse us while we go over here and grimace disgustedly for a while. read more »
Posted by
Krista Lane on Friday, November 09, 2007 03:07 pm
The university’s idea of fencing in and the tree people’s idea of taking nude pictures each seem to need double-takes to be effective up at the at the Nuclear-Free-Vegan-Save-the-Trees Zone lately. Some have actually been entertaining.
Like last time, we were still asleep while construction crews pounded away at campus property/purported native burial ground to erect Fence No. 2. We suppose it cuts down on the potential for more violent tree-sitting like that of our copy-catting hippies in Santa Cruz, but the Clog has a different theory.
We’re convinced that working early is a university strategy referencing “South Park’s” “Grey Dawn,” in which the townspeople can’t fight the early morning tendencies of their enemy, the elderly.
But in this case, there’s no Country Kitchen Buffet to lock from the inside for ultimate victory– only the average 25 feet distance theoretically designed to facilitate voluntary tree people evacuation.
Because, for all you English and rhetoric majors out there, Zachary RunningWolf’s battle cry for “Some of our warriors … to have to go to jail” connotes that peaceful-minded attitude the university is expecting now that UCPD can (still legally) give the boot to the protesters.
Image Source: Skyler Reid, Daily Cal
UCPD Erects Second Fence [Daily Cal]
Save the Memorial Oak Grove [Web site]
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