Culvert Pipe

This is one of the last visible culvert pipes along this path. It is a much smaller pipe than the others and runs under Claremont Avenue to the other side of the street, where there is a large culvert area that continues to run up the watershed until it eventually reaches the University of California Claremont Conservancy. This is the largest, relatively undeveloped canyon on the Western slope of the Berkeley/Oakland hills. Here you can see eucalyptus, which was initially planted by Frank Haven, owner of Claremont Hotel, for fast-growing income-source wood. Once planted, these trees quickly became invasive and took much-needed resources from nearby native flora.