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Tag Archives: eucalyptus
Tree-Thoughts at 125 Years
Someone sent us this charming, incisive, bitter-sweet graphic about a eucalyptus tree. This tree, such an important part of the ecosystem – a shelter for birds, a splendid carbon sink, a catcher of fog – ponders its purpose in life. … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus
Tagged environment, eucalyptus, graphics
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Trees on Clarendon Avenue Felled
Sutro Forest extended along Christopher to Clarendon Avenue. The section at Christopher and Clarendon was decimated for the rebuilding of the pump station in 2009, possibly poisoned in 2013… and in 2019, it’s been clear-cut. It’s gone. THE FOREST BEFORE … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Environment, UCSF
Tagged Aldea Student Housing, eucalyptus, Sutro Forest, tree killers
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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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Two Nativist Myths: Eucalyptus Kills Other Plants; Mutually Exclusive Relationships are Common in Nature
We re-publish with permission (and added emphasis) an article from MillionTrees.me, a website that fights the unnecessary felling of trees in the Bay Area. The article, a report from someone who attended the February 2018 meeting of the California Native … Continue reading
Posted in eucalyptus, nativism
Tagged CNPS, environment, eucalyptus, nativism
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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
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
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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“Are Eucalyptus Trees Going to Kill Us All?” Jan 27, 2017, San Rafael, CA
If you’re interested in a spirited discussion about eucalyptus, there’s going to be an interesting event in San Rafael with TreeSpirit founder Jack Gescheidt. CLICK TO ENLARGE Are Eucalyptus Trees Going To Kill Us All?! So shouldn’t we kill them … Continue reading
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Tagged eucalyptus, Jack Gescheidt
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Report: UCSF Second Sutro Forest TAC Meeting
UCSF held its second Planning Meeting for Sutro Forest on 28 April 2016. The two hired arborists, Jim Clark of Hort Science and Matt Greene, presented the direction they were taking the Plan, and their evaluation of the forest. The … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Meetings, Mount Sutro Stewards, UCSF
Tagged 2016 Plan for Sutro Forest, environment, eucalyptus, nativism, Sutro Stewards, UCSF
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“Are Eucalyptus Trees Going To Kill Us All?” Talk by Jack Gescheidt – Aug 15, 2015
Jack Gescheidt of the Tree Spirit Project, uses a unique method to draw attention to threatened forests: He gets volunteers of all ages to pose nude among the trees to create art photographs. He came to Sutro Forest two years … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, eucalyptus, presentation
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Drought-Adapted Eucalyptus NOT Dying by the Thousand
Jake Sigg, retired San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department (SFRPD) gardener who is considered the doyen of the Native Plant movement in San Francisco, has a widely circulated email newsletter. In it, he has been pushing the argument that thousands of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, nativism
Tagged Dr Joe R. McBride, eucalyptus, Jake Sigg
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Fighting SF Bay Area Deforestation
We’ve been extremely concerned about this disastrous East Bay project – a plan to cut down up to 450,000 trees. Others are fighting back. The post below has three ways in which you can help. It’s republished with permission from … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, eucalyptus, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon
Tagged East Bay, environment, eucalyptus, hills conservation network
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Cal-IPC Eucalyptus Reassessment: Not So Invasive
Back in July 2014, we wrote about the California Invasive Plant Council’s draft reassessment of eucalyptus. It had produced the same “Moderate” rating as before, but for different reasons. But last month, they came out with the final reassessment. Cal-IPC … Continue reading
What Happened to Sutro Forest in 2014 – and Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all our readers! We thought we’d end the year by reviewing the pluses and minuses for 2014. POSITIVES + UCSF has suspended its plans to cut down 90% of the trees in Sutro Forest. A new … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, nativism, UCSF
Tagged environment, eucalyptus, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, UCSF
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Sutro Forest Thanksgiving
Fall in San Francisco brings uncertain weather – (welcome) rainy days mixed in with days of beautiful crisp clarity (also welcome). The day before Thanksgiving was a picture-book afternoon, and Sutro Forest beckoned. We went up perhaps an hour before … Continue reading
Mount Sutro: Fungi in the Forest
In an earlier post, we’d said that fungi and mushrooms were so unusual in Sutro Forest that we took photographs when we saw them – like on this walk in December 2012. But recently, on another visit to the forest, … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, eucalyptus, fungi, mushrooms, 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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Cal-IPC Eucalyptus Reassessment: Same Result (for Different Reasons)
[Edited to Add: Cal-IPC did change the rating in its final version.] The California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC) designates eucalyptus as “moderately invasive.” Land managers all over California have used this designation as an excuse to cut down thousands of … Continue reading
Understanding Eucalyptus in the Bay Area – Dr Joe R. McBride
This article has been republished from the website of the San Francisco Forest Alliance, with permission. (Edited to add: A somewhat different selection of illustrations has been used.) Dr. Joe McBride of UC Berkeley spoke at the Commonwealth Club in … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus
Tagged Dr Joe R. McBride, environment, eucalyptus, eucalyptus myths, thinning, trees
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Sutro Forest in January 2014
The unusual winter weather, with bright sunny days and hardly any rain, has drawn a lot of people to Sutro Forest. We’ve been up there a couple of times recently, and found an unusually large number of joggers, bicycle-riders, and … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Herbicides, Hiking, Natural areas Program
Tagged environment, eucalyptus, mount sutro, Sutro Forest
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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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“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
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Tagged butterfly, environment, eucalyptus, native plants, nativism, wildlife
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Sutro Forest Report: What’s Been Done?
On Sept 11th, UCSF emailed its list that it had “completed urgent fire-safety measures on approximately 12 acres on Mount Sutro.” In the same email, UCSF said that the measures were “in response to an assessment this summer by the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, Sutro Forest "Fire Risk", UCSF
Tagged Aldea Student Housing, eucalyptus, fire risk?, Sutro Forest, UCSF, unscientific
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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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Mount Sutro Forest That Was 