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DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY HILLS FORESTS: INVASIVE FIRE HAZARDS OR NATURAL TREASURES?  Meet a 
 Firefighter called on by local mayors after the 1991 hills fire, and 
 aConservation Biologist discussing species migration throughout history    
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 THEODOROPOULOS Conservation Biologist; Author: Invasion Biology - Critique 
 of a Pseudoscience; Slideshow Presentation  DAVID MALONEY Retired Oakland 
 Fire Department; Chief, Fire Prevention, Oakland Army Base; appointed to 
 1991 Oakland-Berkeley Mayors' Task Force on Emergency Preparedness and 
 Community Restoration    KEN CHEETHAM Forest Photography; Bay Area 
 Progressive Directory  Plus updates from the Hills Conservation Network 
 about their work and lawsuit, and CUIDO (Communities United in Defense of 
 Olmstead - a grassroots disability rights organization)   
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 JULY 31, 2015, 7:00PM   Historic Hall, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian 
 Universalists 1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita - one block east of MLK, Jr. 
 Way) 
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 Are eucalyptus, acacia, and Monterey pines invasive non-native fire 
 hazards, or carbon sequestering habitat and natural treasures? Do we want 
 Dow and Monsanto profiting more than they have already with UC's pesticide 
 use on clearcuts done in the hills over the past decade? Are our East Bay 
 Lungs being sold off for wood pellets for Europe, biomass for China's coal 
 plants, toilet paper for Japan? Longshore workers confirm wood chips are 
 being shipped out of West Coast ports.  Participate in a community 
 discussion of the FEMA-funded tree removal projects in the East Bay Hills, 
 from Richmond to Hayward, which are opposed by 90% of the 13,000 comments 
 on FEMA's Environmental Impact Statement.  Both the Sierra Club and 
 Claremont Canyon Conservancy, which are actively promoting the downing of 
 nearly half a million East Bay Hills trees, and are suing FEMA to demand 
 that more trees are killed, were invited to participate on a panel of both 
 proponents and opponents of these projects. Neither organization responded 
 to East Bay Pesticide Alert's invitation.  
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  **Please refrain from using scented products prior to attending 
 **Wheelchair accessible   
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  Co-sponsored by East Bay Pesticide Alert (dontspraycalifornia.org) (see 
 wildfire pages)   & the Social Justice Committee of BFUU (bfuu.org) \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/07/17/18775042.php
SUMMARY:East Bay Hills Forests: Invasive Fire Hazards or Natural Treasures?
LOCATION:Historic Hall, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists\n1924 Cedar 
 Street (at Bonita - one block east of MLK, Jr. Way)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/07/17/18775042.php
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