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Tag Archives: environment
SF RPD 2013 Herbicide Use – A Correction
Recently, we published our analysis of the San Francisco Natural Areas Program (NAP)’s use of pesticide, and compared it with the rest of SF Recreation and Parks Department (SFRPD) . We said that NAP’s pesticide use had risen in 2013, … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Natural areas Program
Tagged environment, Greenmatch EX, Natural Areas Program
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Please Sign SF Forest Alliance’s NEW Petition to Save Natural Areas
This post is republished from SFForest.org (with permission). The Natural Areas Program controls about a quarter of Sutro Forest, and has recently used pesticide there. Meanwhile, UCSF has said they will not use pesticide in the area they control. San … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Natural areas Program
Tagged environment, Natural Areas Program
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John Muir, Eucalyptus, and Happy New Year!
On January 2, 1911, John Muir – founder of the Sierra Club and the man who saved Yosemite – sent out this greeting card. It has a painting of a eucalyptus tree, and a poem about the tree: “From eucalyptus … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, nativism
Tagged environment, eucalyptus myths
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The Plants that Monarch Butterflies Need
The famed and eponymous natural bridges at Natural Bridges State Beach at Santa Cruz no longer exist; a 1994 winter storm destroyed the last one. But no matter: what we recently went there to see was the over-wintering Monarch butterflies … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus
Tagged Cape Ivy, environment, eucalyptus, habitat, Monarch butterfly, wildlife
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Commonwealth Club: 3 Important 2014 Lectures
The year’s winding down, and many of us are making plans for the next few months. An email from the Commonwealth Club told us of an interesting new series of lectures in January, March and April of 2014. It’s the Science … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Art Shapiro, environment, Joe McBride, nativism, Scott Carroll
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“Invasive” Plants can Save Native Wildlife
We recently came upon this article by author Toby Hemenway, on his blog Pattern Literacy. Written from the point of view of a permaculturist, it responds to nativist objections that the permaculture community plants non-native or even “invasive” species. Since … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, nativism
Tagged butterfly, environment, eucalyptus, native plants, nativism, wildlife
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UCSF: No Pesticides for Mount Sutro Forest
A few weeks ago, we posted about UCSF’s revised plan for the forest. It was a substantial improvement – though we continue to have reservations. (Read about the changed direction and our comments HERE.) Today, we’d like to focus on … Continue reading
Posted in Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, UCSF
Tagged environment, herbicide, 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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Invasion Biology – Pseudoscience? – Talk in Berkeley, 14 July 2013
David Theodoropoulos, author of the book “Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience” will be giving a talk in Berkeley this Sunday. It’s jointly sponsored by East Bay Pesticide Alert and the Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Herbicides, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged environment, herbicide, nativism, Sutro Forest
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The Making of the Mt Sutro Tree Spirit Project
Yesterday, we published a picture made in Sutro Forest for the Tree Spirit Project, which creates art photographs of sylvan nudes to draw attention to endangered forests and trees. (Click here to go to the Tree Spirit page for Mount … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged art, environment, eucalyptus, mount sutro, nudity, Sutro Forest
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Tree Spirit Project in Mount Sutro Forest
Jack Gescheidt – tree-lover, photographer, artist – uses his photographs to publicize forests at risk in his Tree Spirit Project. He calls for volunteers who pose naked among the trees, and makes a beautiful and telling picture. (The website has … Continue reading
Posted in Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged art, environment, eucalyptus, mount sutro, nudity, Sutro Forest
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Tasmania Saves its Forests: Thanks, Miranda!
Some readers will recall we wrote to support of Miranda Gibson, who’s been fighting to save areas of Tasmanian forest that were to be destroyed by commercial logging. She spent a year up in a tree in the forest, the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus
Tagged environment, trees
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War on Trees in the Bay Area
In a world where climate change is a reality, and trees our only defense (aside from actually reducing carbon emissions), it would seem to be a no-brainer that preserving existing trees would be environmentally important. The carbon sequestration and storage … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, nativism, Natural areas Program, UCSF
Tagged deforestation, environment, eucalyptus
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Action Alert: TODAY is Deadline for East Bay Tree-felling Comments
This article is reprinted with permission from SFForest.net The deadline for comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the East Bay Tree-felling plan is TODAY. From the FEMA website: Submitting Comments on the Draft EIS Written comments must … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, nativism
Tagged EIR, environment, eucalyptus, FEMA misuse, fire risk?, trees, unscientific
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How Many Butterflies? San Francisco Butterfly Count, 2013
Each year, in June or July, a group of volunteers goes out and counts butterflies. This year’s butterfly count in San Francisco was on June 8th, and yielded 751 individual butterflies, of which 703 were identified by species. (The spotters … Continue reading
Presentations: How Did it Become Mt Davidson?
Mount Davidson – the smaller, taller forested mountain just to the south-west of Mount Sutro. Like Mount Sutro, it’s a forest surrounded by neighborhoods. Unlike Mount Sutro, it has a landmark cross on top, visible above the trees. How did … Continue reading
People Overwhelmingly Favor Preserving Mount Sutro Forest
In recent weeks, we’ve had several developments regarding Sutro Forest. COMMENTS OVERWHELMINGLY FAVOR PRESERVING THE FOREST UCSF has compiled and published the public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR). Though the comments are meant to address the DEIR, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged environment, Environmental Impact Report, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Sutro Stewards: The Good, The Bad, and the… ???
In recent months, many people have asked us about the Sutro Stewards, and we’d like to explain our position. We’re not affiliated with them. The Sutro Stewards are a volunteer group that works primarily on Mount Sutro. Craig Dawson is … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, Mount Sutro Stewards, nativism, UCSF
Tagged environment, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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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
Posted in Environment, UCSF
Tagged cloud forest, EIR, environment, eucalyptus, Sutro Forest, trees, UCSF
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The Importance of Eucalyptus
It’s Earth Day today, and we’d like to talk about the importance of Eucalyptus trees. Surprisingly, even some people who identify as environmentalists have no idea of the far-reaching value of these trees in our environment. San Francisco has a … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Mount Sutro Stewards, nativism, Natural areas Program, UCSF
Tagged environment, eucalyptus, trees
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ABC7 Television, an Idyllic Forest, and Fear of Fire
ABC7 television had a 2-minute piece on Sutro Forest recently. We think it’s great coverage, and ABC7 is doing the community a service by getting this issue out there. But we’re concerned about how two interviewees focused on fire hazard, … Continue reading
Posted in Sutro Forest "Fire Risk", UCSF
Tagged ABC7, environment, Environmental Impact Report, fire risk?, trees, UCSF
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UCSF’s Mt Sutro DEIR: How Many Felled Trees – 30,000 or 22,000 or zero?
As we’ve noted before, UCSF’s Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) on the Management Plan for Sutro Forest has been published, and public comments are due by March 19th, 2013. It covers what UCSF designates the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve, … Continue reading
Mount Sutro Forest That Was 