Posted on 01/22/2007 8:21:38 PM PST by SmithL
Three grande dames of Berkeley politics, with a combined age of 248, climbed a ladder and sat in a coast live oak next to Memorial Stadium today, joining six other tree-sitters trying to save the grove from a proposed UC development.
"I'm scared to death because I'm afraid of heights," said Shirley Dean, 71, former mayor of Berkeley, as she hoisted herself onto a wooden platform about 15 feet off the ground. "But I'm proud to be here. We're going to save these trees."
Berkeley City Councilwoman Betty Olds, 86, was the first to climb the tree.
"We're not going to give up," she told the crowd of about 50. "This little grove of trees is an oasis. If we can't save this, we might as well throw in the towel."
Sylvia McLaughlin, 90, founder of Save the Bay, also climbed the tree.
The women, dressed in blue jeans, fanny packs and sweaters, stayed in the tree for about half an hour, then gingerly stepped down the ladder, to a round of applause from the crowd.
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These trees are full of nuts.
Old,
Bitter,
Nuts.
saw them on the news,, Full of Nuts is right..
I could use some of that oak for firewood.
This is beyond stupid.
Pig stupid.
And where is the cripple (in mnore ways than one) councilwoman and the halfwitted 90 year old black broad from the city council (sorry, don't remember the names)? The board could (perhaps) hold them all (or not, and then what, a day of national mourning?)
We locals don't call UCB the "Open Ward" for nothing.
I could use a short vacation in a warmer climate.Berkeley looks good and I own a really large chainsaw.
It's time for the 70,000 Cal football fans to hold a counter-protest.
In January?
I'll send some fire ants to Berkeley from here in the Lone Star state... unleash those bad boys/girls on this tree... that'll get those Commie tools to jump down quick ;-)
TAMU Class of '88
Looks like that poor girl under the tree looked up and said, "You just wouldn't believe it... her butt is this wide!"
Welcome folks to the land of NUTS AND FRUITS. If you can name it, you can find it in SF or Berzerkely....the largest outdoor insane asylum in the world.
they should be arrested for tree molestation- stinking arborealphiles
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Have fun tossing food scraps into the tree. The crows should be along.
Looks like a pretty poor Photoshop job to me.
Import a few Ozarkian woodcutters with chainsaws, tree hooks, hounds, trucks, kids and all. They could take care of that situation.
Now where did I put my chainsaw?
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