As this website grows, it’s becoming harder to find things.
So we’ve put in this Contents Page. Each line is a clickable link that will take you to that page or article.
PAGES (This is the basic information about the forest.)
1. A Forest at Risk: The front page, which lays out the problem.
2. Living: The microclimate and aesthetic costs of damaging the forest.
3. A Historic Forest: Sutro forest in San Francisco’s history.
4. Wildlife: Some of the animals and birds that live in the forest.
5. Fire Hazard ??: Why there’s no substantiated fire hazard, and what’s planned will make it worse.
6. Eucalyptus Myths: The demonizing of eucalyptus through the spread of misconceptions.
7. UCSF Plan: The misguided plan to cut down trees and damage the forest.
8. Landslide Risk: Why cutting the trees will mean a greater risk of landslides on these steep slopes.
9. Herbicides: Roundup. Garlon. Imazapyr. The dangers that have come to light.
10. Whom to Contact: People in UCSF, in the City, and the neighborhoods.
11. Photos: This is an album of photographs of the forest, taken over a period of time.
12. BLOG: Clicking on this link will take you to the latest article. If you want to find a specific article, look under the list of posts. They’re in chronological order, earliest first.
POSTS (These are the more frequent “articles” on various topics.
Scroll down to the bottom for the latest ones.)
JUNE 2009
1. Letter from the SF Tree Council
2. Report on the Urban Forestry Council Meeting
3. Letter Objecting to the UCSF “Fire Mitigation” plan
4. FEMA Fire danger? Where?
5. Letter from a Cole Valley Neighbor
6. Caring for a Temperate Cloud Forest
7. Disability Access?
JULY 2009
8. Herbicides (Roundup) and the Forest
9. Hairy or Downy Woodpecker Song?
10. Friendly Invasive Species
11. Dr Singer’s letter
12. Puzzling letter from UCSF
13. Puzzled #2 – UCSF: Roundup Herbicide
14. The Northern Flicker (woodpecker)
15. Puzzled #3 – UCSF: Demonstrating what?
16. Dr Singer’s Letter
17. Puzzled #4 – UCSF: Cloud Forest ?
18. Puzzled #5 – UCSF: Strange Objectives
19. Puzzled #6 – UCSF: Landslides
AUGUST 2009
21. Old San Francisco: Sand, wind, and windblown sand
22. Task force report: Trees are not a Primary Fire Hazard
23. Letter: Grass fires are worse…
24. Article in the Examiner
25. Edgewood and Farnsworth
26. Laurel Heights vs UCSF: Environmental Review Problems. Replay?
27. Michael Pollan Takes on Native Plant Ideology
28. Evidence: Opening The Forest Raises Fire-risk
SEPTEMBER 2009
29. Fog Log
30. Peter Scott’s article on Native Plant Restoration
31. In the News: UCSF; Tree Planting; Native Herbicides
32. A Walk in the Woods With Barbara French
33. A Rebuttal to UCSF’s Response to FEMA
34. The 10-15% Mitigation
35. California Eucalyptus: A Biological Treasure
36. 1 acre = 30 cars
37. New Scientist: Nativism and “Message Enhancement”
OCTOBER 2009
38. October Fog Log
39. The Appalling Example of Twin Peaks
40. UCSF Calls Two Meetings
41. The Cloud Forest’s Driest Day
42. Museum-ification Pt 1 and Museum-ification Pt2
43. Report on the UCSF Oct 19th Meeting
44. Help Save Mount Sutro Trails
45. Fire Hazard Map(s) ?
46. “Least Visible” South Ridge and Edgewood
NOVEMBER 2009
47. November Fog Log
48. Volunteers, Pizza and $30/hour
49. Slate Magazine on Invasives
50. Cutting Down Trees
51. Herbicide Moratorium on Mt Sutro
52. Stewardship of a Forest
53. The Fog Log Conclusion: Seven Dry Days
DECEMBER 2009
54. FEMA, New York Times
55. Eucalyptus Saves Rare Native Plant!
56. Trees, Copenhagen, and Climate Change
57. Global Warming & Quarter-mile relocations
58. ‘Heartbreakingly Beautiful’ Trees
JANUARY 2010
59. Twin Peaks in Bloom
60. Tree trimming and removal
61. Native Plants and Neurotoxins
FEBRUARY 2010
62. Nature-in-the-City’s Erroneous “Facts”
63. Low Fire Risk and the “Historic Trail”
64. Nature-in-the-city: Tree-huggers vs Tree-killers
65. Dusk in the forest (with owls)
66. Old Growth Forest on Mt Sutro
67. UCSF Update and March 24 meeting
68. Spring and Garlon at Twin Peaks
MARCH 2010
69. Euca-phobia and Fire Myths
70. Nativism vs the Environment
71.Why Eucalyptus Trees can Actually Fight Fires
72. Srsly, Ms. Feinstein?
73. Twin Peaks: Belligerent Butterflies and herbicides
74. UCSF’s FEMA move angers Nature-in-the-City
75. Sutro Forest 2010-2011: UCSF Meeting update
76. A Forest Full of Birds
APRIL 2010
77. Sutro Cloud Forest’s Micro-climate
78. A New Plan for the Forest
79. Flowers in the Forest
80. Another Eucalyptus Myth: Bird Death
81. Garlon in our watershed
82. Dialogue with Sutro Biker
83. San Francisco – an Urban Forest Map
MAY 2010
84. Protecting Sutro Cloud Forest Helps Biodiversity
85. Deforestation: US percentage highest
86. Report: UCSF’s Agenda-Planning Meeting
87. Increasing Biodiversity
88. Urban Forests and Migratory Birds
89. East Bay: Intent to file a Petition
90. Report: UCSF Sutro Forest Meeting May 2010
JUNE 2010
91. Butterfly Count: June 7th
92. Mission Blue Butterfly- An Uncertain Experiment. Why?
93. Report: UCSF’s Agenda Planning Meeting #2
94. Butterfly Count Results
95. Concrete and Chainlink Aren’t Forest
96. Sutro Forest Updates
97. The 1976 UC Regent’s Resolution
98. Habitat Destruction in Sutro Forest
99. Six Reasons Not to Destroy Sutro Forest’s Understory
100.Our notes on UCSF’s Notes – May 25th Meeting
JULY 2010
101. Report: UCSF Sutro Forest meeting, June
102.The “Demonstration Projects”
103. More Sutro Forest Birds
104. Report: Agenda Planning Meeting #3
105. Making Wildlife Into Vermin
106. Creating a Fire Ladder?
107. The Failed Experiment at Tank Hill
108. Tree-killers in San Francisco: Reward Offered
109. Report: UCSF Forest Meeting, July 2010
AUGUST 2010
110. Native Plants, Chaparral: Conversation with ‘Charlie’
111. Mount Sutro Forest: A Walk in the Fog
112. Endangered Butterflies
113. Admin stuff, and Thank You
114. Ishi’s Shrine
115. Coyote Careful
116.3 Reasons Not to Use Roundup
SEPTEMBER 2010
117. A Tree House Dream
118. Wind. Fog. Mount Sutro Forest
119. Hiking in Mount Sutro Forest – Pointers and Map
120. Tree Lovers vs Nativists: Matt Smith in the SF Weekly
121. One More Time: Fire Hazard?
122. A Unique Forest
123. Monsanto, Blackwater, Pesticides, and Spies
OCTOBER 2010
124. Excerpts from the Arborists’ Report
125. Something Like Avatar: Mt Sutro’s Networked Forest
126. Sutro Forest: Blue Angels and Forest Sounds
127. Sutro Forest Visit: Hawk and Butterflies
128. Found a Cat in Sutro Forest
129. Twin Peaks: Fall Weather, Roundup and Garlon
130. Natural Areas, Roundup and Birth Defects
NOVEMBER 2010
131. Eucalyptus in San Francisco’s Urban Forest
132. Parnassus Meeting Nov 8th 2010
133. Report on the UCSF Parnassus Meeting (Nov 2010)
134. Native Plants and Pesticides: Glyphosate at Lake Merced
135. Mt Sutro Stewards and the Kill-Trees Trail
136. Sutro Forest Photo by Vickie McNamee
137.Sutro Forest EIR Scoping Meeting – 10th Jan 2011
DECEMBER 2010
138. Quirky Oaks:Parody of an anti-Eucalyptus Pamphlet
139. Twin Peaks – Still Appalling – Mount Sutro’s Future?
140. Stumbling in Sutro Forest
141. Ravens vs Great Horned Owls by Patricia Greene
JANUARY 2011
142. Pt Reyes Light, an Informed Arborist, and Eucalyptus
143. UCSF, Mt Sutro Stewards, and the Fate of Sutro Forest
144. What UCSF’s EIR will Evaluate – and What it Won’t
145. Bees and Blue Gum Eucalyptus and Herbicides
146. A rebuttal to UCSF November Report – Morley Singer
147. Report: UCSF’s EIR Scoping Meeting, Jan 2011
148. Thirty Years in Mount Sutro Forest – Alicia Snow
150. Sutro Forest Ecosystem and Wildlife Habitat
151. Garlon in our Reservoir?
152. A Letter from Lawyers about the Sutro Stewards
FEBRUARY 2011
153. It wasn’t a faun…
154. It’s Spring! It’s Twin Peaks! It’s toxic Garlon herbicide!
155. Glen Canyon and Garlon: Answering Jake Sigg
156. More Garlon for Glen Canyon Park?
157. The Shrine in the Forest
158. Century-old Trees Help the Forest Grow
MARCH 2011
159. Garlon, Natural Areas, and the City
160. Native Plants, Oxalis and the Futility of Garlon
161. Supermoon over Sutro Forest
162. Habitat Destruction with Sutro Stewards
APRIL 2011
163. Twin Peaks and the Mission Blue Butterfly: Why it’s Still Uncertain
164. Cats, Catbirds: Why the Smithsonian study doesn’t say what everyone thinks it does
165. Sutro Forest: Courtesy on the Mountain
MAY 2011
166. Mount Sutro Forest, Native Plants, and Ideology: Debate between a Climatologist and Charlie – Part I
167. Debate….Part II
168. Debate….Part III
169. In Mount Sutro Forest, May 2011
170. Lament for Oakland’s Garber Park
171. SF NAP on Twin Peaks: Rainy Days and Roundup…
JUNE 2011
172. Mount Sutro Forest, Sunlit
173. Mount Sutro Forest as Habitat: Janet Kessler in ‘Way Out West’
174. Roundup, Birth defects, and the new trail in Mount Sutro Forest
175. Twin Peaks, Glen Canyon, Natural Areas, and Imazapyr
176. Interwoven and Integrated: Non-native and native in life’s web
JULY 2011
177. A Map of Mount Sutro Forest
178. San Francisco Butterfly Count tomorrow, 3 July 2011
179. Forest Shrine Makeover
180. Kareiva, Nature Conservancy, and Nativism
181. San Francisco, Biodiversity, and the Department of the Environment
182. San Francisco Butterfly Count Results, July 2011
183. Mount Sutro Forest: Sounds of the Cloud Forest
184. Killing 5000 Trees in Mount Sutro Forest
AUGUST 2011
185. Mount Sutro Forest, Deforested
186. Natural areas, Pine Lake and Pesticides… Again
187. Destroying the Soundscape of Mount Sutro Forest
188. Twin Peaks: Sunset and Evening Fog and Pesticides
189. Mount Sutro: Current Conditions in the Cloud Forest
SEPTEMBER 2011
190. Mount Sutro Forest: The View From Cole Valley
191. Mount Sutro: Cloud Forest Pictures by Paul Hudson
192. San Francisco’s Natural Areas Program…Where’s It Going?
193. Bird-safe Buildings for San Francisco
194. Why San Francisco’s Natural Areas Are — Unnatural
195. “Natural Areas Program”: Destroying the Trees of San Francisco
196. Natural Areas Program’s Pesticides: Toxic and Toxic-er
OCTOBER 2011
197. San Francisco Natural Area’s Pesticide Violations
198. San Francisco’s Natural Areas: The Many Mistakes in the Draft EIR
199. Blue Angels over Mount Sutro Forest
200. Killing Healthy Trees in SF’s “Natural Areas”
201. Native Restorations Don’t “Restore” Anything – Professor Arthur Shapiro’s comments on the DEIR for the SNRAMP
202. USCF, Sutro Stewards, and the fund-raising “Fire Hazard”
NOVEMBER 2011
203. The Bees of Glen Canyon Park
204. SF Natural Areas Program: Imazapyr, Glyphosate Pesticides at McLaren Park
205. The Summer Tanager and San Francisco’s Non-Native Plants
206. Glen Canyon Park: Birds, Habitat, and the Significant Natural Resource Areas Management Program (SNRAMP)
207. Mt Sutro Forest: New Trail, No EIR
208. Monarch Butterflies in Eucalyptus in San Francisco
DECEMBER 2011
209. SNRAMP, Pesticides, and Mt Davidson
210. Glen Canyon Park: Pesticides and Habitat Removal
211. Bees, Weeds, and Nativism
212. The San Francisco Forest Alliance
213. ‘Tis the Season… for Poisons on Twin Peaks
214. Mt. Davidson Park – An Open Space Preserved for Recreation or Native Plants?
215. Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 13
JANUARY 2012
