Tag Archives: 1991 oakland fire

Lament for Oakland’s Garber Park

Posted on May 27, 2011 by

We read this article in the Spring issue of Hills Conservation Network’s newsletter (the link goes to a PDF), and it resonated with us who want to save Sutro Forest’s habitat. Ecological destruction, whether from building and traffic, or from … Continue reading →

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Quirky Oaks: Parody of an anti-Eucalyptus Pamphlet

Posted on December 5, 2010 by

We’d never expected to come upon a well-researched tree article that made us laugh. This one from the HCN Newsletter cracked us up: It was riff on a widely-circulated but biased pamphlet on eucalyptus, and it was spot on.  [Edited … Continue reading →

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Letter: Grass fires are worse…

Posted on August 9, 2009 by

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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Task force report: Trees are not a Primary Fire Hazard

Posted on August 8, 2009 by

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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