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Peaceful Protest for Sutro Forest: Aug 29, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m
A peaceful protest is planned for August 29, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 500 Parnassus, outside UCSF’s Millberry Union building. Please come, bring as many people as you can, try to bring a sign to carry. Bright colors are … Continue reading
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Tagged protest, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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UCSF Surprise: Felling >1000 Trees On Mt Sutro in Aug 2013
We had thought that UCSF was not going to cut down trees this fall when we wrote One More Year for Sutro Forest. We were wrong. Yesterday, we received a surprise notification from UCSF. It plans to start felling trees … Continue reading
Posted in Sutro Forest "Fire Risk", UCSF
Tagged cloud forest, eucalyptus, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Getting the Word Out: Media Coverage of Sutro Forest
In the last few days, there’s been quite a lot of media coverage of the plans to gut Sutro Forest; and the related issue of Mount Davidson, where SF Recreation & Parks Department plans to fell 1600 trees. Some has … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged cloud forest, environment, eucalyptus, KALW, KCBS, mount sutro, nativism, Salon, SFist, Wall Street Journal
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Invasion Biology – Pseudoscience? – Talk in Berkeley, 14 July 2013
David Theodoropoulos, author of the book “Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience” will be giving a talk in Berkeley this Sunday. It’s jointly sponsored by East Bay Pesticide Alert and the Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Herbicides, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged environment, herbicide, nativism, Sutro Forest
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The Making of the Mt Sutro Tree Spirit Project
Yesterday, we published a picture made in Sutro Forest for the Tree Spirit Project, which creates art photographs of sylvan nudes to draw attention to endangered forests and trees. (Click here to go to the Tree Spirit page for Mount … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged art, environment, eucalyptus, mount sutro, nudity, Sutro Forest
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Tree Spirit Project in Mount Sutro Forest
Jack Gescheidt – tree-lover, photographer, artist – uses his photographs to publicize forests at risk in his Tree Spirit Project. He calls for volunteers who pose naked among the trees, and makes a beautiful and telling picture. (The website has … Continue reading
Posted in Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged art, environment, eucalyptus, mount sutro, nudity, Sutro Forest
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One More Year for Sutro Forest
We recently learned that UCSF will delay project implementation, which was otherwise likely to start in August 2013. With the unprecedented number of written comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR), and the spoken comments at the February 2013 … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged EIR, eucalyptus, mount sutro, UCSF
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Tasmania Saves its Forests: Thanks, Miranda!
Some readers will recall we wrote to support of Miranda Gibson, who’s been fighting to save areas of Tasmanian forest that were to be destroyed by commercial logging. She spent a year up in a tree in the forest, the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus
Tagged environment, trees
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War on Trees in the Bay Area
In a world where climate change is a reality, and trees our only defense (aside from actually reducing carbon emissions), it would seem to be a no-brainer that preserving existing trees would be environmentally important. The carbon sequestration and storage … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, nativism, Natural areas Program, UCSF
Tagged deforestation, environment, eucalyptus
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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
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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
Mount Sutro Forest That Was 