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Category Archives: Environment
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
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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
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Tagged California, California Natural Resources Agency, urban forest
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“New Battle over Managing Sutro Forest Trees” – San Francisco Chronicle
Someone sent us a really interesting article about Sutro Forest in a recent San Francisco Chronicle (25th June, 2016). A MYSTICAL PLACE Titled “New battle over managing Sutro Forest trees,” the article is by well-known journalist Carl Nolte. It starts … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Mount Sutro Stewards, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged Carl Nolte, cloud forest, environment, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Mission Blue Butterfly on Twin Peaks 2016 Update: Imports from San Bruno Continue
The ongoing project to establish the Mission Blue Butterfly (an endangered subspecies of butterfly) on San Francisco’s Twin Peaks is, well, ongoing. On the basis of the most recent information we received under the Sunshine Act, the Twin Peaks population … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Natural areas Program
Tagged Garlon 4 Ultra, mission blue butterfly, Twin Peaks
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Butterfly Count 2016 – San Francisco
This year’s foggy butterfly count day – June 4th, 2016 – yielded fewer butterflies than usual, though the number of species was around the same. The Common Buckeye was the most commonly spotted butterfly in 2016, with the Cabbage White … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged butterfly, butterfly count, north american butterfly association
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Report: UCSF Second Sutro Forest TAC Meeting
UCSF held its second Planning Meeting for Sutro Forest on 28 April 2016. The two hired arborists, Jim Clark of Hort Science and Matt Greene, presented the direction they were taking the Plan, and their evaluation of the forest. The … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Meetings, Mount Sutro Stewards, UCSF
Tagged 2016 Plan for Sutro Forest, environment, eucalyptus, nativism, Sutro Stewards, UCSF
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Invisible Nests – Tree Work Should Avoid the Nesting Season
This article is reposted with permission from CoyoteYipps, a blog about San Francisco’s urban coyotes. We republish it here as an interesting story – and a lesson in how difficult it is to see a bird’s nest even if you … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged bird nesting season, birds, thinning, wildlife
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Two Views of Sutro Forest
Tom Roop sent us several pictures of Sutro Forest and Mount Davidson from a distance. We’ve labeled them to clarify the position of the two mountains. He also sent us this one – a classic San Francisco vista. “The point … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Environment
Tagged environment, Sutro Forest, trees
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Coming to Sutro Forest: Three New Trails and a Fancy Trail Head
This article is slightly modified and republished from a post on forestknolls.info UCSF is going ahead with plans to add three new trails to Sutro Forest. While we don’t object to trails as such, they all cost us trees – … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Hiking, Mount Sutro Stewards, UCSF
Tagged cloud forest, environment, Sutro Forest, trails, UCSF
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Sierra Club Members! Please vote
This is republished with permission from the San Francisco Forest Alliance website. We think it’s important. Please do vote if you’re a Sierra Club member. If you’re a Sierra Club member, you’ve probably received a message asking you to vote … Continue reading
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Tagged sierra club, sierra club elections
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Mount Sutro Forest: Logging a Lovely Forest
“I was in the forest and it looks like a lumber company came in…” wrote one of our correspondents. UCSF has been aggressive about cutting down trees this winter. These are not evaluated as *hazardous* trees, as Jim Clark of … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Environment, Mount Sutro Stewards, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged environment, Sutro Forest, trees, UCSF
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Protecting Mount Sutro Cloud Forest Helps Biodiversity
In view of discussions of biodiversity and mosaics in ecosystems, we are republishing a post from May 2010 that addresses this issue. Mount Sutro Cloud Forest is part of a mosaic of biodiversity in the Western part of San Francisco. … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged biodiversity, birds, cloud forest, environment, mount sutro, Sutro Forest
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More Sad News From Sutro Forest
More trees are being cut down in Sutro Forest, and machinery is being used that could damage the roots even of the trees left standing. We were driving down Medical Center Way today and saw machines and crews at work … Continue reading
UCSF Restarts Sutro Forest Plans in 2016
At the meeting on January 14th, 2016, UCSF announced it was trying again to develop a plan for Sutro Forest. UCSF hope to have a draft Plan in May 2016. They think they may be able to “start work” in … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, UCSF
Tagged Environmental Impact Report, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Ishi – An Article from 1911
This New Year, we’d like to go back over 100 years to 1911, when Sutro Forest was 15-25 years old, time enough for the trees to have grown large enough to establish it as a forest. This is the story … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged historic, ishi
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A 1912 Tribute to Adolph Sutro
We’d like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year in 2016 and celebrate it with this tribute to Adolf Sutro, the philanthropist who gave so much to San Francisco including the forest we all love. It was written … Continue reading
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Tagged adolph sutro, san francisco, trees
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Monarch Butterfly Season with Child Art
One of the wonderful things eucalyptus trees do is provide wildlife habitat. In particular, they are crucial to supporting the Western Migration of the the Monarch butterflies, by providing a roost for the butterflies to spend the winter. A study … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus
Tagged child art, Monarch butterfly
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Sierra Club “Corrects” the Record – Fails
The Sierra Club shocked the environmental community, including many of its own members, when it not only failed to oppose the horrible East Bay plan to cut down hundreds of thousands of trees, but actually sued FEMA to cut down … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides
Tagged herbicide, sierra club, trees
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Sierra Club Alienates its Would-be Allies
Most people think of the Sierra Club as an organization battling for trees and nature, for forested lands like the one in this picture. They believe it’s fighting to save the environment and opposing the use of pesticides and other … Continue reading
Sunny Day with Butterflies and Bees in Sutro Forest
One of the lovely things about Mount Sutro Forest is its changing moods. We posted pictures here of a foggy day recently, when the forest was ethereal and damp. But the previous afternoon, it was sunny in the forest. A … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged Anise Swallowtail, butterfly, environment
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Petition the Sierra Club to Stop Advocating Against Trees and For Pesticides
Million Trees and The San Francisco Forest Alliance have a petition to ask the Sierra Club to stop advocating for the destruction of trees and the use of pesticides in the San Francisco Bay Area. You may be shocked to … Continue reading
Sutro Forest in May 2015 – Green Despite the Drought
We’re into the second year of a drought, here in California. In Sutro Forest, you’d hardly know it. The forest is lush and green. We took these pictures a month ago. We meant to put them up then, but here … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Hiking, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged cloud forest, mount sutro, Sutro Forest
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Drought-Adapted Eucalyptus NOT Dying by the Thousand
Jake Sigg, retired San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department (SFRPD) gardener who is considered the doyen of the Native Plant movement in San Francisco, has a widely circulated email newsletter. In it, he has been pushing the argument that thousands of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, nativism
Tagged Dr Joe R. McBride, eucalyptus, Jake Sigg
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Mount Sutro Forest That Was 