Children's Fairyland Blog: Lake Merritt

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Monday, April 29, 2019

Dragon Slide Pioneer: How one boy got to test drive it first

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by C.J. Hirschfield A trip down Children’s Fairyland’s 32 feet high Dragon Slide has been an exciting rite of passage for millions of Bay...

Monday, February 18, 2019

The Rotary Nature Center Is Back!

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By C.J. Hirschfield “I spent many happy hours here when I was growing up, trying to find the queen bee at the Rotary Nature Center’s h...

Monday, October 1, 2018

Save That Monster!

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By C.J. Hirschfield When William Penn Mott Jr. was head of Oakland’s Parks Department in the 1950s, he got things done. Crazy, cool th...

Monday, August 6, 2018

Scooter Madness

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By C.J. Hirschfield The good news at Lake Merritt: hundreds of young crabs and an increased number of topsmelt fish, striped bass and ...

Monday, October 16, 2017

Downtown Organisms

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By C.J. Hirschfield During a lunch break last week, I had the opportunity to view, up close, the gonads of a flatworm. How could I pass...

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