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- A Candle for the New Year
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More Trees Being Felled in Sutro Forest
“Can you tell me what’s happening on the north side of the forest? I’ve been watching them cut down a swath from a lunchroom at UCSF the last few days,” said an email to us a day ago. Yes. It’s … Continue reading
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A Candle for the New Year
It’s been a difficult year for the world and for Sutro Forest. We hope things will be better in 2022. Here’s our candle for the New Year! To all our readers and supporters, Season’s Greetings! And may the resilience of … Continue reading
The Very Long Life of Eucalyptus Trees
From the time we established this website in 2009, we have battled a series of myths used to attack eucalyptus trees. One of the most pernicious is that the trees are short-lived, and so are dying of old age. We … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, eucalyptus, eucalyptus myths, life span, longevity of eucalyptus
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SF Beautiful Nominates Your Webmaster
SF Beautiful, a non-profit organization that promotes and celebrates efforts to make – and keep – the city beautiful, nominated your webmaster for an award as an ‘unsung hero.’ The real unsung hero, of course, was beautiful Sutro forest itself, … Continue reading
San Francisco Butterfly Count tomorrow, 3 July 2011
The North American Butterfly Association is sponsoring the annual butterfly count in San Francisco. It’s usually in June, but had to be postponed this year because of the wet weather. So it’s tomorrow, July 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 … Continue reading
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It wasn’t a faun…
If you saw a naked youth running through the magical Sutro Forest, it probably wasn’t a faun (though maybe he looked like one). From the SF Police Department Parks Station Newsletter: “700 block of Panorama Dr. 7 PM Aided Case. … Continue reading
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Report: UCSF’s EIR Scoping Meeting, Jan 2011
Last evening, UCSF held its scoping meeting for the Environmental Impact Report (EIR). They plan to finish the Draft EIR in spring, in time to start felling trees on the South Ridge (above Forest Knolls neighborhood) by September 2011. This … Continue reading
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Tagged EIR, Environmental Impact Report, herbicide, mount sutro, mt sutro stewards, UCSF
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What UCSF’s EIR will Evaluate – and What it Won’t
Edited to Add: If you want to comment, the deadline is January 18 2011. Here’s the address to contact:The comment period ends January 18th. (Comments can be sent in writing to PHEIR@planning.ucsf.edu or to Diane Wong, UCSF Campus Planning, Box … Continue reading
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Coyote Careful
We don’t know if there are coyotes in Mount Sutro Forest, but we do know they’ve been seen in Golden Gate Park and Glen Canyon and Twin Peaks and Midtown Terrace. Since they can hunt over 4 km, it’s possible … Continue reading
Admin stuff, and Thank You
It’s been over a year since this website was started up and it has a new look. The template we were using became obsolescent, and we wanted one that was easier to read and better for pictures. So here we … Continue reading
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A New Plan for the Forest
Back in 2001, UCSF published a Plan for Sutro Forest, based on data that had been collected in previous years (including a 1999 report on the forest). One of the objections neighbors had to the so-called “FEMA Plan” – i.e. … Continue reading
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Spring and Garlon at Twin Peaks
This morning, Twin Peaks was radiant. Not the view from Twin Peaks, which is always amazing: the flowers. It was splendid with drifts of oxalis and mustard, california poppy and lupine, iris and calendula, all set against a vivid green … Continue reading
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UCSF calls two meetings
UCSF has called two meetings to discuss the project. 1. Monday, Oct 19 2009, 6.30 p.m. [Our report, with some comments, is here.] UCSF Millberry Union, 500 Parnassus Ave. $1.50 validated parking in UCSF public parking garage. 2. Saturday, Oct … Continue reading
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1 acre = 30 cars
I stole this graphic from the Nature Conservancy website (which I’ve linked here, so I hope they won’t mind). We’ve been hearing about the carbon impact of chopping down all those 120-year old trees. Until now, I didn’t have an … Continue reading
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Tagged eucalyptus, mount sutro, nature conservancy, sequester carbon, sutro, Sutro Forest, trees, UCSF
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A Rebuttal to UCSF’s Response to FEMA
This is an edited version of the letter sent to FEMA regarding UCSF’s response to their questions. Emphasis has been added. ——————————– [We were] quite surprised to read the details of UCSF’s response August 16 response to FEMA’s questions of … Continue reading
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Tagged FEMA misuse, fire risk?, mount sutro, nativism, sutro, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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In the News: UCSF; Tree Planting; Native Herbicides
We’re starting a new feature here: In The News. We plan to post summaries of relevant news items (or other pieces from the internet), and comment on them. SAVING FORESTS IS ONE OF THE MOST EFFICIENT CLIMATE REMEDIES This article … Continue reading
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Tagged Elizabeth Blackburn, Garlon, herbicide, native plants, nativism, Nobel prize, Roundup, san francisco, sequester carbon, trees, UCSF
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Peter Scott’s article on Native Plant Restoration
We were sent this article, with a request to re-publish it on this website. The author, who wrote this in the context of the East Bay, kindly gave permission. Emphasis has been added. ———— NATIVE PLANT RESTORATION: IT LOOKS A … Continue reading
Michael Pollan Takes on Native Plant Ideology
Someone sent us a New York Times magazine article by author and UC Berkeley professor Michael Pollan, he of the locavore food fame. He describes the storm of letters he received when he published a story about his failed attempt … Continue reading
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Tagged eucalyptus myths, herbicide, michael pollan, mount sutro, native plants, nativism, sutro, Sutro Forest
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Laurel Heights vs UCSF: Environmental Review Problems. Replay?
At the request of a neighbor who provided the relevant references, we researched the Laurel Heights Improvement Association v. Regents of the UC case. It is, he suggested, quite relevant to the current situation. In 1993, UCSF famously lost a … Continue reading
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Tagged california supreme court, EIR, Environmental Impact Report, laurel heights, mount sutro, sutro, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Edgewood and Farnsworth
So far, we have concentrated mostly on the South Ridge, planned for the first tree-felling. But recently, we walked around to Edgewood and Farnsworth, the site of the second cut. That appears even more problematic than South Ridge, in some … Continue reading
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Article in the Examiner
The Examiner today carried an article saying we are fighting to retain the forest. They spoke to Dr Morley Singer; to someone at UCSF; and to Sean Elsbernd. They note Dr Singer’s point that this is a quarter of the … Continue reading
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Letter: Grass fires are worse…
We received this letter from “Bewildered in Berkeley” in response to David Maloney’s letter exonerating eucalyptus in the 1991 Oakland fire. ———— Thanks for telling us about the Oakland-Berkeley Mayors’ Firestorm Task Force analysis of the cause of the 1991 … Continue reading
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Tagged 1991 oakland fire, eucalyptus myths, fire risk?, grass fires, hills conservation network, native plants, sutro, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Task force report: Trees are not a Primary Fire Hazard
David Maloney, a member of the Task Force investigating the 1991 Oakland Hills fire confirms that even there – in Oakland’s climate of more extremes and less humidity than Mt Sutro’s cloud forest – trees were not the primary problem. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1991 oakland fire, eucalyptus myths, fire risk?, grass fires, hills conservation network
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Old San Francisco: Sand, wind, and windblown sand
San Francisco, at the time when Sutro planted the historic forest, was a world of windblown sand that got into everything, including residents’ lungs. We received a letter from a San Franciscan who has “a small San Francisco library and … Continue reading
Puzzled #5 – UCSF: Strange Objectives
Today’s discussion is about Objectives. “ What are the objectives of the projects?” the Q&A asks, and proceeds to list the following: “• To substantially reduce the amount of highly combustible fuels to prevent a fast-moving, high-intensity fire that could … Continue reading
Puzzled #4 – UCSF: Cloud Forest ?
The fourth in our series of responses to UCSF’s July 9th letter. According to the letter, “The forest is not a “Cloud Forest” (these are native forests found in tropical and subtropical areas of the world), but Mount Sutro does … Continue reading
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Mount Sutro Forest That Was 