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- How Many Butterflies? San Francisco Butterfly Count, 2013
- Presentations: How Did it Become Mt Davidson?
- Hiking through Mount Sutro Forest – Tony Holiday (Part 2)
- Hiking Through Mount Sutro Forest by Tony Holiday (Part I)
- People Overwhelmingly Favor Preserving Mount Sutro Forest
- Sutro Stewards: The Good, The Bad, and the… ???
- May 2013: Mount Sutro Forest Hike in a Dry Spell
- Sutro Forest “Fire Hazard” – Lesson from the Oakland Hills
- A Tree Story in Mount Sutro Forest
- San Francisco Bay Guardian: SH!T H@#PENED – The Battle of Mt Sutro
- The Importance of Eucalyptus
- Save the Forests! Meeting – 21 April 2013
- Mount Sutro Forest “Management Plan” Timeline
- March End, 2013 – Mount Sutro Forest Hike
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- Bird list – from Craig Newmark (Cole Valley Heights)
- Birding – A really good blog for Oregon and California (including San Francisco)
- Birding on Mt Sutro
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- Golden Gate Park: stories from our neighboring park
- Harry Fuller's Green Tech Blog
- Mainly Sutro tower, but has information on our mountain
- Neocreationism and the Illusion of Ecological Restoration
- UCSF's 2001 Plan for Sutro Forest
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Action Alert: TODAY is Deadline for East Bay Tree-felling Comments
This article is reprinted with permission from SFForest.net The deadline for comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the East Bay Tree-felling plan is TODAY. From the FEMA website: Submitting Comments on the Draft EIS Written comments must … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, nativism
Tagged EIR, environment, eucalyptus, FEMA misuse, fire risk?, trees, unscientific
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How Many Butterflies? San Francisco Butterfly Count, 2013
Each year, in June or July, a group of volunteers goes out and counts butterflies. This year’s butterfly count in San Francisco was on June 8th, and yielded 751 individual butterflies, of which 703 were identified by species. (The spotters … Continue reading
Presentations: How Did it Become Mt Davidson?
Mount Davidson – the smaller, taller forested mountain just to the south-west of Mount Sutro. Like Mount Sutro, it’s a forest surrounded by neighborhoods. Unlike Mount Sutro, it has a landmark cross on top, visible above the trees. How did … Continue reading
Hiking through Mount Sutro Forest – Tony Holiday (Part 2)
Tony Holiday is a San Francisco resident who likes hiking the area. This is republished with permission and minor changes from “Interior Greenbelt Unmarked” on his blog, Stairways are Heaven. In this, the second of two articles, Tony hikes up … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Hiking, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged forest knolls neighborhood, hiking, mount sutro
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Hiking Through Mount Sutro Forest by Tony Holiday (Part I)
Tony Holiday is a San Francisco resident who likes hiking the area. This is republished with permission and minor changes from “Both Historic Trails” on his blog, Stairways are Heaven. This, the first of two articles, describes a hike that … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Hiking, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged hiking, mount sutro, Sutro Forest
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People Overwhelmingly Favor Preserving Mount Sutro Forest
In recent weeks, we’ve had several developments regarding Sutro Forest. COMMENTS OVERWHELMINGLY FAVOR PRESERVING THE FOREST UCSF has compiled and published the public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR). Though the comments are meant to address the DEIR, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged environment, Environmental Impact Report, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Sutro Stewards: The Good, The Bad, and the… ???
In recent months, many people have asked us about the Sutro Stewards, and we’d like to explain our position. We’re not affiliated with them. The Sutro Stewards are a volunteer group that works primarily on Mount Sutro. Craig Dawson is … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, Mount Sutro Stewards, nativism, UCSF
Tagged environment, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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A Tree Story in Mount Sutro Forest
There’d been a couple of really windy days in San Francisco recently, and trees went down all across the city. In Sutro Forest, too, one fell across a trail. We received notice of it from UCSF’s Damon Lew: “Due to … Continue reading
San Francisco Bay Guardian: SH!T H@#PENED – The Battle of Mt Sutro
Who can resist a title like that? “SH!T H@#PENED – The Battle of Mt Sutro” So when one of our readers told us about this SF Bay Guardian article, we went looking online. No luck. We went right out for … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, UCSF
Tagged cloud forest, EIR, environment, eucalyptus, Sutro Forest, trees, UCSF
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The Importance of Eucalyptus
It’s Earth Day today, and we’d like to talk about the importance of Eucalyptus trees. Surprisingly, even some people who identify as environmentalists have no idea of the far-reaching value of these trees in our environment. San Francisco has a … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Mount Sutro Stewards, nativism, Natural areas Program, UCSF
Tagged environment, eucalyptus, trees
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Save the Forests! Meeting – 21 April 2013
Jointly with San Francisco Forest Alliance, we’re holding a meeting about the planned tree-cutting – not just on Mount Sutro, but also on Mount Davidson and elsewhere in San Francisco. It’s on Sunday, April 21, 2013 from 4.30 p.m. to … Continue reading
Mount Sutro Forest “Management Plan” Timeline
The public comment period for the Mount Sutro Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) closed on March 19th. A lot of people are saying, Now What? The bottom line: Unless the project is delayed or cancelled, tree-felling could start in mid-August … Continue reading
Bucketloads of Herbicides Coming to Sutro Forest
We’ve often praised UCSF here for keeping Mount Sutro forest pesticide free. No pesticides have been used there since 2008. We’ve said things like “This may be the last pesticide-free wild land in the city. (Thanks, UCSF!)” On the other … Continue reading
ABC7 Television, an Idyllic Forest, and Fear of Fire
ABC7 television had a 2-minute piece on Sutro Forest recently. We think it’s great coverage, and ABC7 is doing the community a service by getting this issue out there. But we’re concerned about how two interviewees focused on fire hazard, … Continue reading
Posted in Sutro Forest "Fire Risk", UCSF
Tagged ABC7, environment, Environmental Impact Report, fire risk?, trees, UCSF
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“Don’t Cut Me Down”: Found in Sutro Forest
A few weeks ago, we’d mentioned seeing lots of trees along the Sutro Forest trails marked with orange blobs of paint. They were mostly trees in apparently poor condition, though they didn’t look especially hazardous. We assumed they had been … Continue reading
Flaws in UCSF’s Sutro DEIR: Public Comments Due 19th March 2013
This post is about flaws in UCSF’s Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve. It isn’t comprehensive, but hits some of the high points. Here is the PDF of the DEIR: Mount_Sutro_EIR_1-16-13_with_Appendices MISLEADING PICTURES The DEIR … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged EIR, fire risk?, mount sutro, sequester carbon, Sutro Forest, UCSF, wildlife
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UCSF’s Mt Sutro DEIR: How Many Felled Trees – 30,000 or 22,000 or zero?
As we’ve noted before, UCSF’s Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) on the Management Plan for Sutro Forest has been published, and public comments are due by March 19th, 2013. It covers what UCSF designates the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve, … Continue reading
Fimrite’s Forest: The Evil Twin of Sutro Forest
Fimrite’s Forest is the evil twin of Mount Sutro Cloud Forest. It occupies the same space, but it’s quite different from the forest we know and love. It’s described in Peter Fimrite’s recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle, and … Continue reading
Mission Blue Butterflies – Uncertainty Saga
Regular readers of this website know that we’ve been following the Natural Areas Programs attempts to reintroduce the Mission Blue Butterfly to Twin Peaks. We’ve just obtained the latest report from San Francisco Recreation and Parks Dept (SFRPD). It’s very … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Natural areas Program
Tagged environment, mission blue butterfly, Natural Areas Program, Twin Peaks, wildlife
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Sutro Forest’s on Channel 2 News
Channel 2 (KTVU) has coverage of the proposed tree-felling in Sutro Forest. Click on the picture below to go to their video. They were also present for part of UCSF’s public hearing this evening.
Posted in deforestation, Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged Channel 2, environment, KTVU, mount sutro, trees, UCSF
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Mount Sutro Forest: Why UCSF’s Protests Aren’t Convincing
UCSF has been messaging their mailing list, claiming they have no plans to fell 30,000 trees. They only intend to fell trees on 7.5 acres, the four “Demonstration Projects.” After that, they’ll get community input to figure out how many … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Mount Sutro Stewards, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged environment, eucalyptus, Sutro Forest, Sutro Stewards, UCSF
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Message to UCSF: Do the math!!
We are reprinting, with permission, the following article from the Million Trees blog. ************************************************************************************* UCSF has sent an email to its neighbors about its plans for the Sutro forest in which they say, “Contrary to rumors being circulated, there is … Continue reading
Mount Sutro Forest Hike in February
The day was perfect, the weather unusually nice. A long weekend, and perhaps the publicity surrounding UCSF’s plans to “thin” the forest, drew many more hikers than usual. We hiked up the steep trail from Christopher (scheduled to be closed … Continue reading
Posted in Mount Sutro Stewards, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged environment, Environmental Impact Report, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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