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Tag Archives: Environmental Impact Report
Here it Comes: UCSF announces the Draft EIR for Sutro Forest
UCSF sent out a notification recently, saying that the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the 2017 Plan for Sutro Forest will be released on July 24th, 2017. The public will have until September 8th, 2017 to make their comments. … Continue reading
Posted in Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged environment, Environmental Impact Report, Sutro Forest
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UCSF Restarts Sutro Forest Plans in 2016
At the meeting on January 14th, 2016, UCSF announced it was trying again to develop a plan for Sutro Forest. UCSF hope to have a draft Plan in May 2016. They think they may be able to “start work” in … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, UCSF
Tagged Environmental Impact Report, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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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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Mount Sutro Forest “Management Plan” Timeline
The public comment period for the Mount Sutro Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) closed on March 19th. A lot of people are saying, Now What? The bottom line: Unless the project is delayed or cancelled, tree-felling could start in mid-August … Continue reading
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
Message to UCSF: Do the math!!
We are reprinting, with permission, the following article from the Million Trees blog. ************************************************************************************* UCSF has sent an email to its neighbors about its plans for the Sutro forest in which they say, “Contrary to rumors being circulated, there is … Continue reading
Mount Sutro Forest Hike in February
The day was perfect, the weather unusually nice. A long weekend, and perhaps the publicity surrounding UCSF’s plans to “thin” the forest, drew many more hikers than usual. We hiked up the steep trail from Christopher (scheduled to be closed … Continue reading
Posted in Mount Sutro Stewards, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged environment, Environmental Impact Report, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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The Draft Environmental Impact Report for Sutro Forest
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
Posted in Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged Environmental Impact Report, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Sutro Forest Draft Environmental Impact Report: Opening For Comments
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
Posted in Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged environment, Environmental Impact Report, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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UCSF Postpones Tree-felling Another Year
At a public meeting of the Community Advisory Group on 4 June 2012, UCSF’s Barbara Bagot-Lopez announced that the project to fell trees on four “demonstration”plots would be postponed, probably to the Fall of 2013. (Those are the yellow areas … Continue reading
Posted in Meetings, Mount Sutro Stewards, UCSF
Tagged EIR, Environmental Impact Report, mount sutro, mt sutro stewards, Sutro Forest, Sutro Stewards, UCSF, wind
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Mt Sutro Forest: New Trail, No EIR
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
Native Restorations Don’t “Restore” Anything – Professor Arthur Shapiro
We are reprinting, with permission, Professor Shapiro’s comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report on the Significant Natural Areas Program. It was first published on Death of a Million Trees. ————————————————————————- With permission and in its entirety we are publishing … Continue reading
Killing Healthy Trees in SF’s “Natural Areas”
We referred to this article in our summary of the mistakes in the Draft Environmental Impact Report on SF’s Natural Areas. We are now reprinting it with permission (and minor edits) from the website, Death of a Million Trees. It … Continue reading
San Francisco’s Natural Areas: The Many Mistakes in the Draft EIR
We’ve posted several times recently about the San Francisco Natural Areas Program. About the overall program: Why San Francisco’s Natural Areas Are — Unnatural About trees to be felled: Destroying the Trees of San Francisco About pesticide use: Toxic and … Continue reading
San Francisco Natural Area’s Pesticide Violations
As we noted in our previous post, the San Francisco Natural Areas Program seems to be using increasing amounts of toxic pesticides. From time to time, we’ve posted information here about pesticide use in the Natural Areas Program (NAP) lands. … Continue reading
“Natural Areas Program”: Destroying the Trees of San Francisco
We re-publish this recent article with permission (and minor edits) from Death of a Million Trees. Plans for managing San Francisco’s Natural Areas — currently the subject of a Draft Environmental Impact Report — calls for cutting down thousands of … Continue reading
Why San Francisco’s Natural Areas Are — Unnatural
WHEN I first heard about San Francisco’s Natural Areas Program (SF NAP) some years ago, I was charmed. Over 1000 acres of city-owned land would be left to Nature, more wild and free than the orderly, gardened lawns and playgrounds … Continue reading
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
Posted in Meetings, Mount Sutro Stewards, UCSF, Uncategorized
Tagged EIR, Environmental Impact Report, herbicide, mount sutro, mt sutro stewards, UCSF
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Report on the UCSF Parnassus Meeting (Nov 2010)
We were not aware of the existence of the “Parnassus CAG Action Team” – a sub-committee of the UCSF Community Advisory Group (CAG) – until now. This meeting was run by Craig Dawson (Mt Sutro Stewards) and Kevin Hart, a … Continue reading
Posted in Meetings, Mount Sutro Stewards, UCSF
Tagged Aldea Student Housing, Environmental Impact Report, mount sutro, mt sutro stewards, trails
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Our notes on UCSF’s Notes – May 25th Meeting
This is UCSF’s summary of the May 25th meeting, which we reported on here. We have edited it for clarity. “C” stands for comment; “Q” for question; “A” for an answer provided by UCSF or by its hired arborist, Ray … Continue reading
East Bay: Intent to file a Petition
(Edited to update the information in the post) Hills Conservation Network has decided to file a petition under California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) against the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) and its Board of Directors. It’s sent a notification through … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus
Tagged EIR, Environmental Impact Report, eucalyptus, hills conservation network, trees
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Srsly, Ms. Feinstein?
When ten thousand trees are cut down on 400 acres of steep hillsides, it stands to reason it’ll have a major environmental impact. Four “fire hazard mitigation” proposals from UC Berkeley, Oakland, and East Bay Regional Park District plan to … Continue reading
Posted in eucalyptus, nativism
Tagged Environmental Impact Report, FEMA misuse, fire risk?, nativism, sequester carbon
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UCSF Update and March 24 meeting
We attended a meeting at UCSF today, in which they addressed several planning items. On Mt Sutro, UCSF was seeking money from FEMA to gut a quarter of the forest in the name of fire hazard mitigation. What UCSF’s Lori … Continue reading
Mount Sutro Forest That Was 