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- Barn Owl in Sutro Forest
- Monarch Butterfly at Twin Peaks – Oct 2017
- Disturbing Sutro Forest Would Release a Lot of Green House Gases
- What Will Sutro Forest Look Like After the Plan?
- Sutro Forest Plan: Heavy Machinery in Unstable Areas
- Sutro Forest 2017 Plan Imposes a Landslide Risk
- Public Comments due Sept 22, 2017 on Sutro Forest DEIR
- Year 9 of Mission Blue Butterfly on Twin Peaks: Mixed Results
- Here it Comes: UCSF announces the Draft EIR for Sutro Forest
- Butterfly Count in San Francisco – 2017
- Ecological Novelty is Nature’s Future
- April Visit to Beautiful Sutro Forest
- Peter Ehrlich, 1948-2017
- Native Plant Restoration: “Someone Pays and Someone Profits”
- The Forest at the City’s Heart – Sutro Cloud Forest
A HIKE IN SUTRO FOREST (Links)
BIRDS & WILDLIFE IN BAY AREA (Links)
- Bird checklist for San Francisco from USGS
- Bird list – from Craig Newmark (Cole Valley Heights)
- Birding – A really good blog for Oregon and California (including San Francisco)
- Birding on Mt Sutro
- California Academy's Nature Blog
- Owls and other wildlife blog
- San Francisco's coyotes
- The Beavers at Martinez
- Urban Wildness: San Francisco wildlife (birds, coyotes, insects)
- Wildlife Hospital in San Rafael (Marin County, CA)
BUTTERFLY ID (Links)
HERBICIDES (Links)
SAVING TREES (Links)
SITES OF INTEREST (Other Links)
- A great blog about Bay Area excursions and interests
- Drought Update
- 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
- UCSF's Mount Sutro links
- What happens to water when it hits the land?
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Monarch Butterfly at Twin Peaks – Oct 2017
A few days ago, a viewer watching the planes rehearse for Fleet Week spotted a different kind of aerial phenomenon: Monarch butterflies, fluttering around over Twin Peaks. “I was driving by Twin Peaks,” they wrote, “and paused to watch the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, UCSF
Tagged Monarch butterfly, Mount Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Disturbing Sutro Forest Would Release a Lot of Green House Gases
We’ve pointed out before that Sutro Forest is an excellent carbon sink: The trees are tall, fast growing and have dense wood. In some parts of the forest, the mid-story of blackwood acacia boosts this carbon storage as well. The … Continue reading
Posted in Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged 2017 DEIR, Eric Brooks, Green house gases, sequester carbon
What Will Sutro Forest Look Like After the Plan?
It’s going to look pretty awful in Sutro Forest when UCSF implement the Plan. The most immediate action: Cut down thousands of trees. Here’s what the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) says: “The density of the forest would experience the … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged deforestation, Sutro Forest, thinning, views
Public Comments due Sept 22, 2017 on Sutro Forest DEIR
UCSF has released a humongous 1087-page Draft Environmental Impact Report on the Plan to cut down thousands of trees in Sutro Forest. The deadline for public comment has been extended in response to a San Francisco Forest Alliance request, to … Continue reading
Posted in Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged DEIR 2017, environment, Mount Sutro Forest, Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve, UCSF
Year 9 of Mission Blue Butterfly on Twin Peaks: Mixed Results
It’s now Year 9 of the the Mission Blue butterfly project on Twin Peaks, San Francisco. In 2008, SF Recreation and Parks Department (SFRPD) started trying an attempt to reintroduce the Mission Blue Butterfly to Twin Peaks, by planting lupine and transferring … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged environment, mission blue butterfly, San Bruno Mountain, san francisco, Twin Peaks
Here it Comes: UCSF announces the Draft EIR for Sutro Forest
UCSF sent out a notification recently, saying that the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the 2017 Plan for Sutro Forest will be released on July 24th, 2017. The public will have until September 8th, 2017 to make their comments. … Continue reading
Posted in Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged environment, Environmental Impact Report, Sutro Forest
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Butterfly Count in San Francisco – 2017
This year’s sunny butterfly count day – June 18th, 2017 – made up for last year’s dismal fog. Eighteen spotters in eight groups, led by butterfly maven Liam O’Brien, counted a record number of butterflies: 1435 or 1440, (we’re still … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged butterfly, butterfly count
Ecological Novelty is Nature’s Future
This thoughtful article and guest post by Professor Mark Davis was first published in Death of a Million Trees (which fights unnecessary tree destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area), and subsequently on the website of the San Francisco Forest … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged ecological novelty, environment, invasion biology, Mark Davis, Sutro Forest
April Visit to Beautiful Sutro Forest
“I would love to see Sutro forest,” said the out-of-town visitor. “I’ve heard so much about it!” So when the welcome rain cleared into welcome sunshine, we headed up the new trail at the Pumphouse on Christopher Drive. It doesn’t provide the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged environment, Sutro Forest
Peter Ehrlich, 1948-2017
Peter Ehrlich was the Chief Forester at the Presidio, and sat on UCSF’s Technical Advisory Committee for Sutro Forest. Tragically, he died in a bicycle accident on May 2, 2017. The Presidio is holding a community work day in his … Continue reading
Native Plant Restoration: “Someone Pays and Someone Profits”
The article below was first published on April 1st on MillionTrees.me – a site fighting unnecessary tree destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. Though it references mainly the widespread tree destruction planned for the East Bay, the same principles apply broadly. … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, nativism
Tagged FEMA misuse, native plants, nativism, trees
The Forest at the City’s Heart – Sutro Cloud Forest
[This article was published recently on the website of the San Francisco Forest Alliance, and is reprinted here with permission. Thousands of trees are being cut down in San Francisco. Sutro Forest may actually be the worst, with many thousands … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged environment, Sutro Forest, trees
Forest- Bathing in Mount Sutro Cloud Forest
We learned about the Forest-Bathing Club in San Francisco when some of the people who took part in this told us how much they loved the beautiful forest on Mount Sutro. Trees have been shown to improve health and well-being, … Continue reading
How Many Trees in Sutro Forest? And What Will be Left?
Mount Sutro is a very difficult site. Its soils are shallow, its rocks unstable. It’s very windy. Few trees survive those conditions. Nevertheless, the eucalyptus forest has naturalized there for over a century – nearly 125 years now – and … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, UCSF
Tagged cloud forest, environment, eucalyptus, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Old Trees Trap More Carbon and Fight Climate Change
The older a tree grows, the more carbon dioxide it grabs out of the air and sequesters, thus fighting climate change. Cutting down these large old trees releases this carbon back into the atmosphere. An article published in the Nature … Continue reading
“Are Eucalyptus Trees Going to Kill Us All?” Jan 27, 2017, San Rafael, CA
If you’re interested in a spirited discussion about eucalyptus, there’s going to be an interesting event in San Rafael with TreeSpirit founder Jack Gescheidt. CLICK TO ENLARGE Are Eucalyptus Trees Going To Kill Us All?! So shouldn’t we kill them … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, nativism
Tagged eucalyptus, Jack Gescheidt
4th Sutro Forest TAC Meeting: Nativist Coup
When UCSF surprisingly announced there would be a 4th Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting after the original three, we suspected adverse changes to the Draft Plan. That meeting was held this evening, and we were right to be concerned. Significant changes … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, nativism, UCSF
Tagged environment, nativism, Sutro Forest, UCSF
Season’s Greetings, Best Wishes for 2017
This year-end , we’d like to light a symbolic candle. We hope you find it meaningful as we do. To everyone who reads this post: Season’s Greetings! and Best Wishes for 2017. . . . . . . ************
Posted in Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged Greetings
Another TAC Meeting – Jan 23, 2017
UCSF has surprisingly announced it will have another TAC meeting with modifications to their earlier announced Draft Plan. Here’s what they wrote: “In August, UCSF published a draft management plan for the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve. The plan was … Continue reading
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Tagged Meetings
Crucial Meeting for San Francisco Trees – Dec 15, 2016 – TOMORROW
[EDITED TO ADD (DEC 15, 2016): UNFORTUNATELY, THE PLAN WAS APPROVED DESPITE CONSIDERABLE OPPOSITION.] The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department has been pushing a Management Plan that will cut down 18,400 trees in San Francisco and Pacifica; close 9 … Continue reading
Urban Greening Draft – Speak for The Trees by 5 Dec 2016
In September 2016, the California Natural Resources Agency (CNR) started planning a grant program for Urban Greening. It sounds good at first: The money, 3/4 of which must be used in economically disadvantaged communities, is for planting trees to store … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged California, California Natural Resources Agency, urban forest
UCSF’s New Draft Plan for Sutro Forest – Aug 2016
UCSF presented its new Draft Plan for Sutro Forest at the Third Technical Advisory Committee meeting on Aug 18, 2016. This plan will be implemented in three phases: Year 1-5, Year 6-10, and Year 11-20. However, it is heavily front-loaded, … Continue reading
Posted in eucalyptus, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged cloud forest, mount sutro, Sutro Forest
Sutro Forest – UCSF to Hold Final TAC Meeting (and some old pictures)
UCSF is planning to hold its final Technical Advisory Committee meeting on August 18th, 2016. These are a series of meetings in which two consultants, who have been retained by UCSF to write a plan for Sutro Cloud Forest (or, … Continue reading
