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Comment on Sutro Forest in February 2012 by harryeye

harryeye — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:41:38 +0000

Is there anyone at UCSF (involved in management of Sutro Forest) who tells the truth?

Seems not. They meet with the public, then continue destroying the forest. It’s sad they can’t negotiate in good faith.

Comment on The $3.4 mn “Park” at Sutro Dunes by Coffee and the 1% « FOREST KNOLLS

Coffee and the 1% « FOREST KNOLLS — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:31:55 +0000

[...] one of our neighbors. It was a gray day, but fresh, and we walked down from the Beach Chalet to the Sutro Dunes “Natural” Area, and [...]

Comment on The $3.4 mn “Park” at Sutro Dunes by Skeptic

Skeptic — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:56:41 +0000

If Parcel 4 is “one of the most awesome natural areas in the whole city,” what do the less successful “restorations” look like?

Comment on The $3.4 mn “Park” at Sutro Dunes by harryeye

harryeye — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:19:51 +0000

this is a pathetic, dead area, completely sick looking. while there were birds up on the light poles nearby, none in the garden – presumably because they can’t find a living bug. i assume that’s because they poured toxic stuff to kill the evil natives.

what a tremendous waste of public money.

Comment on The $3.4 mn “Park” at Sutro Dunes by clegyrboia

clegyrboia — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:08:07 +0000

What makes it almost silly is the fact that they moved sand onto the site, where did this sand come from, what did they destroy to get that sand. Next to this planting plants grown in a nursery, why not just seed it.
Hopefully they will leave it alone now and let nature do her own thing which could work out a lot better.

Comment on San Francisco Natural Areas and Escalating Pesticide Use by Refuting Allegations – and a Politician who “Gets It.” « San Francisco Forest Alliance

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:38:12 +0000

[...] think an ecosystem that has been sprayed with herbicides qualifies as a “healthy ecosystem.” NAP sprayed herbicides at least 86 times in 2011. Their use of herbicides has increased over 330% in the last 4 years. NAP uses herbicides that [...]

Comment on Glen Canyon Park: Pesticides and Habitat Removal by webmaster

webmaster — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:11:39 +0000

Thanks for rescuing the bird… these kinds of things make a difference.!

Comment on Natural areas, Pine Lake and Pesticides… Again by Pine Lake with Pollution and Pesticides | Save Mount Sutro Forest

Pine Lake with Pollution and Pesticides | Save Mount Sutro Forest — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:49:31 +0000

[...] This isn’t the first time someone has sent us a pesticide picture; the last time, it was for pesticides inside the actual lake. View Larger [...]

Comment on Sutro Forest at Sunrise by Dolan Eargle

Dolan Eargle — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:41:59 +0000

Anyone trying to negate the beauty and strength of this place has no sense of place.

Comment on Sutro Forest at Sunrise by webmaster

webmaster — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:35:15 +0000

Here’s a video about saving the trees on Mount Davidson.

Comment on Natural Areas Program’s Pesticides: Toxic and Toxic-er by Three Poisons on Mt Davidson: Garlon, Aquamaster, Milestone « San Francisco Forest Alliance

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:22:55 +0000

[...] more about these and other pesticides the NAP uses, see The Natural Areas Program’s Pesticides: Toxic and Toxic-er on the Save Sutro Forest website. Share [...]

Comment on San Francisco Natural Areas and Escalating Pesticide Use by Three Poisons on Mt Davidson: Garlon, Aquamaster, Milestone « San Francisco Forest Alliance

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:22:46 +0000

[...] resort. OK for rennovations (sic) but must put in place weed prevention measures.” The NAP reached a “last resort” 38 times last year (i.e. [...]

Comment on San Francisco Natural Areas and Escalating Pesticide Use by Response to Nature in the City « Death of a Million Trees

Response to Nature in the City « Death of a Million Trees — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:08:06 +0000

Comment on The Fog Log Conclusion: Seven Dry Days by Miraloma Life Online – February 2012 Miraloma Park Improvement Club

Miraloma Life Online – February 2012 Miraloma Park Improvement Club — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:42:47 +0000

[...] through the summer. As a result, it is damp or wet year round. When we kept a “fog log” (see http://sutroforest.com/2009/11/30/7-dry-days/) in 2009, a dry year, we found the longest “dry spell” for the forest (i.e., no fog, no rain) [...]

Comment on San Francisco Natural Areas and Escalating Pesticide Use by Ivy Eradication: A Comedy of Errors « Death of a Million Trees

Ivy Eradication: A Comedy of Errors « Death of a Million Trees — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:21:52 +0000

[...] Maybe not. Although glyphosate and imazapyr have a lower hazard rating of “More Hazardous,” the Natural Areas Program increased their pesticide applications in 2011 at least 20% compared to 20… But more importantly, little is known about the toxicity of imazapyr and nothing is known about [...]

Comment on San Francisco Natural Areas and Escalating Pesticide Use by McLaren Lodge and the Sunshine Act « FOREST KNOLLS

McLaren Lodge and the Sunshine Act « FOREST KNOLLS — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:50:12 +0000

[...] pesticide use, particularly by the Natural Areas Program. For anyone who’s interested, the preliminary report of what I found is at the Save Sutro Forest website. Advertisement GA_googleAddAttr("AdOpt", [...]

Comment on Killing Healthy Trees in SF’s “Natural Areas” by San Francisco Natural Areas and Escalating Pesticide Use | Save Mount Sutro Forest

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:32:56 +0000

[...] bode well for the future of those trees. Meanwhile, it seems to be able to find funding to destroy trees in Natural areas across the city, trash habitat needed by the city’s wildlife, and take out quirky old trees [...]

Comment on Garlon in our Reservoir? by San Francisco Natural Areas and Escalating Pesticide Use | Save Mount Sutro Forest

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:32:52 +0000

[...] readers will remember this post about the dateless sign threatening pretty much all the vegetation near the Twin Peaks reservoir [...]

Comment on Natural Areas Program’s Pesticides: Toxic and Toxic-er by San Francisco Natural Areas and Escalating Pesticide Use | Save Mount Sutro Forest

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:32:43 +0000

[...] months ago, we wrote that the pesticide use in the Natural Areas seemed to have increased sharply in 2010 compared with 2009. Oh, said a critic, don’t focus on an individual year. It might go back down next year, it [...]

Comment on Interwoven and Integrated: Non-native and Native Species in Life’s Web by Why San Francisco’s Natural Areas are – Unnatural « San Francisco Forest Alliance

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:47:38 +0000

[...] We object to habitat destruction; birds, insects and animals all use these “non-native’ habitats. [...]

Comment on Museum-ification – Pt 1 by Why San Francisco’s Natural Areas are – Unnatural « San Francisco Forest Alliance

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:47:31 +0000

[...] years ago, Save Sutro Forest ran an article on museum-ification. This is the fate of many of these “natural” areas: they come with more, not fewer, [...]

Comment on More Garlon for Glen Canyon Park? by Why San Francisco’s Natural Areas are – Unnatural « San Francisco Forest Alliance

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:47:28 +0000

[...] Some — including Native Plant doyen Jake Sigg — have argued that one or two applications in a decade are all that’s needed, and are thus justified. That hasn’t been our experience. Two nearby Native Areas — Twin Peaks and Glen Canyon — have been sprayed many times annually for many years. According to their communications with some concerned neighbors, the SF NAP does not expect to stop. [...]

Comment on Twin Peaks: Sunset and Evening Fog and Pesticides by Why San Francisco’s Natural Areas are – Unnatural « San Francisco Forest Alliance

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:47:26 +0000

[...] that one or two applications in a decade are all that’s needed, and are thus justified. That hasn’t been our experience. Two nearby Native Areas — Twin Peaks and Glen Canyon — have been sprayed many times [...]

Comment on Old San Francisco: Sand, wind, and windblown sand by Why San Francisco’s Natural Areas are – Unnatural « San Francisco Forest Alliance

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:47:23 +0000

[...] What we’re actually getting, then, is Native Plant Gardens, 32 of them. Trying to push these spaces back in time means they must be managed and maintained, because San Francisco now is a different place and a different ecology from the windblown hills and sand-dunes of its pre-colonial past. [...]

Comment on Kareiva, Nature Conservancy, and Nativism by Why San Francisco’s Natural Areas are – Unnatural « San Francisco Forest Alliance

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:47:20 +0000

[...] adding to the biodiversity of the area. According to Peter Kareiva of the Nature Conservancy, there are 25% more species in California than there were before “non-native” plants got [...]

Comment on Mt Sutro Forest: New Trail, No EIR by Hiking in Mount Sutro Forest – Pointers and Map | Save Mount Sutro Forest

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:28:00 +0000

[...] Meadow and Native Garden (a flat open area, at its best in spring), and various trails lead off it. A new trail has just been built starting to the left of the Nike Road, just below the chain that blocks cars [...]

Comment on Hiking in Mount Sutro Forest – Pointers and Map by webmaster

webmaster — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:11:18 +0000

The name has been formalized as “Fairy Gates” on the signposts installed by the Sutro Stewards and permitted by UCSF… but we can add “Topo Trail” on the maps we publish here. Thanks for this little bit of its history!

Comment on Natural Areas Program’s Pesticides: Toxic and Toxic-er by Happy New Year, with Pyrotechnics and Pesticides | Save Mount Sutro Forest

Happy New Year, with Pyrotechnics and Pesticides | Save Mount Sutro Forest — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:22:21 +0000

[...] on Twin Peaks this month. It was for the Twin Peaks twins: Glyphosate and Imazapyr, both of which we’ve written about before. (Glyphosate is the one linked to birth defects, and imazapyr the one that persists and which has a [...]

Comment on Hiking in Mount Sutro Forest – Pointers and Map by Dolan Eargle

Dolan Eargle — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:08:28 +0000

Yet another comment.
Some years ago I was a member of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at UCSF, living only 3 blocks down Clarendon. I walked to work through the Sutro Forest, but needed a good trail to stay away from the curvy Medical Center Way. I located an abandoned trail cut though the forest (possibly by the original woodcutters in the 1920s). Poison ivy, brambles, washouts, and standing water puddles were dispensed with, giving me and student housing residents a remarkable trail (ca.1975). I maintained it until 1996 and dubbed it the Topo Trail, owing to its level nature. It runs N from the chancellor’s home to the Way, where it is alongside the road. I see that the silly term “Fairy Gates” has been given it. Please change.

Comment on Hiking in Mount Sutro Forest – Pointers and Map by Dolan Eargle

Dolan Eargle — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:49:44 +0000

Dolan Eargle PERMALINK
December 18, 2011 9:51 pm
1. Sand was indeed the main topic. but several of us there still are highly concerned that the topic of playground placement was hardly touched.
2.The topic of tennis court re-placement is extremely important. Brushing it off, the program director simply said that they would (will) be placed where Alms Drive is now. That would cause the destruction of at least 9 sturdy, 100-yr old healthy, perfectly good (eucalyptus) trees. We are certain that there has been NO EIR presented to us. Without a doubt, removal of healthy, older trees would be included in such a report. It seems as though the architects have simply ignored this absolute requirement. She told me that “they” (the architects committee?) had decided that it would be too expensive leaving the trees to carve out the hill above Alms to put the tennis courts there. What she didn’t say is that the site of the trees must also be bulldozed and costly root removal done!
THERE MUST BE A HEARING ON THIS TREE SITUATION–WITH THE ARCHITECTS (not their flunkies) AND PROOF THAT THEY HAVE OBSERVED ALL EIR REQUIREMENTS.