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Tag Archives: cloud forest
Lest We Forget (2): Sutro Forest 2007
This website was set up only in 2009, and except for a few pictures of San Francisco in the old days, most of our photographs come from June 2009 or later. Hiker Tony Holiday (who blogs at Stairways are Heaven) … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud forest, eucalyptus, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, trees
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Lest We Forget: Sutro Forest – 2004, 2005, 2006
This website was set up only in 2009, and except for a few pictures of San Francisco in the old days, most of our photographs come from June 2009 or later. Hiker Tony Holiday (who blogs at Stairways are Heaven) … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged cloud forest, eucalyptus, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, trees
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How Many Trees in Sutro Forest? And What Will be Left?
Mount Sutro is a very difficult site. Its soils are shallow, its rocks unstable. It’s very windy. Few trees survive those conditions. Nevertheless, the eucalyptus forest has naturalized there for over a century – nearly 125 years now – and … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, UCSF
Tagged cloud forest, environment, eucalyptus, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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UCSF’s New Draft Plan for Sutro Forest – Aug 2016
UCSF presented its new Draft Plan for Sutro Forest at the Third Technical Advisory Committee meeting on Aug 18, 2016. This plan will be implemented in three phases: Year 1-5, Year 6-10, and Year 11-20. However, it is heavily front-loaded, … Continue reading
Posted in eucalyptus, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged cloud forest, mount sutro, Sutro 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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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
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Tagged cloud forest, environment, Sutro Forest, trails, 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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Sutro Forest: Fog and Puddles While Elsewhere Fires Burn
The fog rolled in, the mist filled the trees, and the forest’s music was the patter of the Cloud Forest’s internal rain. This was Sutro Cloud Forest on Saturday, September 12th 2015. We were glad of our raincoat as we … Continue reading
Posted in Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, Sutro Forest "Fire Risk"
Tagged cloud forest, environment, Sutro Forest, trees
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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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AAA Says, Don’t Miss Mount Sutro
We’ve been members of AAA for decades, now, and value their adventure-inspiring magazine, Via, almost as much as their roadside service. Recently, we were particularly delighted to see a great article on one of San Francisco’s best-kept secrets – Sutro … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged adolph sutro, cloud forest, mount sutro, Sutro Forest
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Sutro Forest: NATURAL, Not Diseased or Dying
CRYING WOLF WITH BEETLES In the Sutro Stewards blog last month, Craig Dawson (who is its Executive Director) wrote a post claiming that the forest was in dire straits, infected with funguses and beetles: specifically, Anthracnose, armillaria, phytopthora, wood decay … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mount Sutro Stewards, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged cloud forest, environment, eucalyptus, unscientific
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UCSF Sutro Forest Update
UCSF has decided to wait on Mount Sutro Forest. For now, all plans are suspended except for routine maintenance. We attended UCSF’s Community Advisory Group (CAG) meeting this evening. (UCSF has a sort of citizen’s panel that is supposed to … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, UCSF
Tagged cloud forest, mount sutro, Sutro Stewards, UCSF
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Progress! UCSF’s Changed Plans for Mt Sutro Forest (Meeting Report)
Thank you, everyone who came for the UCSF Mt Sutro Forest meeting on 21 November 2013. It was a significant one. UCSF indicated a changed direction from its earlier plan. Key changes: Restricted objective: Safety. The main objective will be … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud forest, Sutro Forest, UCSF, wildlife
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Mt Sutro Cloud Forest Evening: Puddles, Not Fire
The fog blowing in last evening softened all the colors to gray. It was growing late, too late for the forest. We went anyway. These are some of the most beautiful times in the Cloud Forest, and we’d been away … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Sutro Forest "Fire Risk"
Tagged cloud forest, eucalyptus, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, wildlife
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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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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
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Tagged cloud forest, EIR, environment, eucalyptus, Sutro Forest, trees, UCSF
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Fimrite’s Forest: The Evil Twin of Sutro Forest
Fimrite’s Forest is the evil twin of Mount Sutro Cloud Forest. It occupies the same space, but it’s quite different from the forest we know and love. It’s described in Peter Fimrite’s recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle, and … Continue reading
Mount Sutro Forest That Was 