Category Archives: Mt Sutro Cloud Forest

UCSF Plans to Fell More Than 30 Thousand Trees on Mount Sutro

Posted on January 30, 2013 by webmaster

Mount Sutro Forest has approximately 45,000 trees in the 61 acres belonging to UCSF, and designated as an open space reserve. This dense forest, with an estimated  740 trees per acre, a sub-canopy of acacia, an understory of blackberry and … Continue reading →

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Sutro Forest is Visible From Space

Posted on January 29, 2013 by webmaster

The Bernalwood blog alerted us to this interesting photograph, sent out by Chris Hadfield, commander of the International Space Station over his Twitter feed. (Twitter is a social medium that allows people to share their pictures and their thoughts in … Continue reading →

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The Draft Environmental Impact Report for Sutro Forest

Posted on January 24, 2013 by webmaster

The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for Sutro Forest is available for comment. It’s long, and we’re still going through it. (We find the report cover a little disturbing, though; the “forest” seems to consist of some trees growing in … Continue reading →

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Sutro Forest Draft Environmental Impact Report: Opening For Comments

Posted on January 16, 2013 by webmaster

Today we learned that the Draft Environmental Impact Report for Sutro Forest will open for comments on January 18th, 2013.  The public will have 45 days in which to comment on the DEIR, until March 4, 2013. There’s a meeting … Continue reading →

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Sunset and Mushrooms: Mount Sutro Forest Hike, December 2012

Posted on December 3, 2012 by webmaster

Winter weather seems to have set in, with some major storms coming through. Last night, we had a major rain-storm. This evening, we grabbed the chance to go up into the forest. The setting sun gilded the trees. From the … Continue reading →

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UCSF Long Range Development Plan Meeting and Sutro Forest

Posted on October 10, 2012 by webmaster

We attended UCSF’s Long Range Development Plan meeting this evening. It’s due 2014, and gives UCSF a road-map through 2035. Most of the discussion focused on how UCSF should get back under their space ceiling, a limit they had decided … Continue reading →

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Ostriches below Mt Sutro Forest

Posted on September 12, 2012 by webmaster

If we were thinking of non-native species of birds, we probably couldn’t get much further than ostriches. So it seemed particularly appropriate to post this picture. The graceful non-native trees of Mt Sutro Forest fill the background, and in the … Continue reading →

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Fact Check: Nothing Grows UnderEucalyptus? (Allelopathy)

Posted on September 6, 2012 by webmaster

Like most people in the US, we’ve been listening to some of the political speeches and the discussion around them recently. And we’re rather heartened by a newly emerging trend: fact-checking. In the last few months, one “fact” we’ve heard … Continue reading →

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Mt Sutro Cloud Forest: An August 2012 Hike

Posted on August 18, 2012 by webmaster

The summer fog’s been hanging around the Cloud Forest, and when we went up there late last weekend, it had lightened but not lifted. We climbed up by the Christopher entrance to the South Ridge trail. It was cool and … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro Forest: A Landmark

Posted on July 16, 2012 by webmaster

We were sent this great picture by Dr Morley Singer and it’s published here with permission. It was taken from the top of Golden Gate Bridge. Look over Dr Singer’s left shoulder, and you can see Mount Sutro Forest,  next … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro Cloud Forest: Forest report, July 2012

Posted on July 15, 2012 by webmaster

While the rest of the country bakes and burns, we’re having a cool San Francisco fog-belt summer. The other day, strong gusty winds blew the fog blew in from the sea, and we headed up to the forest. Mount Sutro … Continue reading →

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Sutro Forest: A Tale of Two Riders

Posted on June 12, 2012 by webmaster

We’ve written about bike riders on the mountain before, and our experience has been pleasant. The riders have been careful and polite. [Read: Courtesy on the Mountain] Others have told us about cyclists zipping down trails and getting in the … Continue reading →

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Trees and Income Inequality

Posted on June 4, 2012 by webmaster

Many of us intuitively associate trees and “nice” areas. Realtors know this; if a house for sale is on a tree-lined street, the ad always says so. In 2008,  researchers looking into the question found that the demand for trees … Continue reading →

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The Forest in May

Posted on May 23, 2012 by webmaster

Spring in the Sutro Forest is lovely. Where the canopy is largely unbroken, the sunlight streams through the trees with the filtered light particular to forests. Last week,  flowers bloomed in the lower reaches of the mountain: the pinkish-purple Robert … Continue reading →

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A Bobcat in Sutro Forest?

Posted on May 10, 2012 by webmaster

“We saw a bobcat today in Mt. Sutro by the Aldea Center,” commented reader RM on  MntSutro.com on 10 May 2012. We were fascinated. [Edited to replace the public domain picture with one the reader sent us – taken in … Continue reading →

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What Adolph Sutro Didn’t Know About the Eucalyptus Forest

Posted on March 12, 2012 by webmaster

Mount Sutro Cloud Forest, a century-old forest of eucalyptus, was planted by former mayor and philanthropist Adolph Sutro (1830-1898). Like the larger and better-known Muir Woods, it’s the last remnant of a forest that covered a much larger area – … Continue reading →

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Mt Sutro Forest – Beautiful Evocation of a Lost Tree

Posted on February 26, 2012 by webmaster

We were sent this clip by videographer and artist Lori Ambrosio, who visited the “Kill-trees Trail” (connecting Stanyan x 17th to Medical Center Way). We thought it was a lovely bitter-sweet evocation of the trees that were there – only … Continue reading →

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Sutro Forest in February 2012

Posted on February 17, 2012 by webmaster

We were up in Mt Sutro Forest a couple of days ago, the day after Valentine’s Day. The forest looked appropriately romantic. A number of cherry trees were in bloom with tiny white flowers,  like this one near the entry … Continue reading →

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Sutro Forest at Sunrise

Posted on February 3, 2012 by webmaster

Lori D’Ambrosio sent us this lovely picture of Mount Sutro at sunrise. It’s taken from Mt Davidson, another eucalyptus forest under threat – from the Natural Areas Program. This is what we’re fighting to save. Beauty. Habitat. Not to mention … Continue reading →

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Mt Sutro Forest: New Trail, No EIR

Posted on November 20, 2011 by webmaster

UCSF has a detailed plan for Mount Sutro’s forest. It involves  adding three new trails (shown in dark red on the map): The Christopher/ South Ridge Trail (parallel to Christopher on the map) ; The Clarendon/ South Ridge Trail (joining … Continue reading →

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Blue Angels over Mount Sutro Forest

Posted on October 7, 2011 by webmaster

Lulu Carpenter sent me this picture of the Blue Angels flying over Mount Sutro Forest, with the note “I wish I had had my camera out today – they flew right over my head, much lower than they were flying … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro: Cloud Forest Pictures by Paul Hudson

Posted on September 8, 2011 by webmaster

The other day, we happened upon this photograph on Flickr, the photo-sharing website that’s part of Yahoo. We go into the forest often, and have hundreds of pictures taken in various seasons and times of day. This was different. It … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro: Current Conditions in the Cloud Forest

Posted on August 30, 2011 by webmaster

Sunday evening, we were  in the forest. We started at Stanyan x 17th, going up the (Stanyan) “Kill-trees Trail.” BEAUTIFUL — AND SLUSHY It’s been very foggy in the last few weeks, and you can see the effect of the … Continue reading →

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Destroying the Soundscape of Mount Sutro Forest

Posted on August 18, 2011 by webmaster

People have mentioned the sounds of and in the forest before, but it was only when we joined a Soundwalk in the forest that we became so conscious of it. Recently, someone pointed us to an article about Soundscape Ecology, … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro Forest, Deforested

Posted on August 6, 2011 by webmaster

This is the view of Mount Sutro Forest from Twin Peaks. So we were thinking… how would Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve look if the anti-tree people get their way? Maybe something like this? (It’s our best estimate, using a … Continue reading →

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Killing 5000 Trees in Mount Sutro Forest

Posted on July 30, 2011 by webmaster

[ETA (1 Aug 2011): We’ve just received a recent update from UCSF. It appears the timeline has been pushed out. If the projects are approved, they will start felling trees in August 2012. This Google Map shows the forest. (You … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro Forest: Sounds of the Cloud Forest

Posted on July 19, 2011 by webmaster

Bay Area Sound Ecology, an organization promoting awareness of the soundscape, conducts “soundwalks.” These are expeditions that focus on listening rather than just looking. Last evening, Jeremiah Moore and Andrea Williams led such a soundwalk in the Mount Sutro Cloud … Continue reading →

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Forest Shrine Makeover

Posted on July 3, 2011 by webmaster

From time to time, we’ve posted about the little shrine in Sutro Forest. When we first saw it, it was a shrine in memory of Ishi, the last of the Yahi, who lived near the forest in the care of … Continue reading →

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A Map of Mount Sutro Forest

Posted on July 2, 2011 by webmaster

Readers of this site may remember that a few months ago, we took down a number of maps after we received a strongly-worded legal letter. We had assumed they were in the public domain (they were based on city/ UCSF … Continue reading →

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Roundup, Birth defects, and the new trail in Mount Sutro Forest

Posted on June 8, 2011 by webmaster

The new trail connecting Stanyan (just above 17th Avenue) with Medical Center Way opened a few days ago. Though still marred by the stumps of dead trees and amputated shrubs, it provides better access from the Cole Valley side of … Continue reading →

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