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Sutro Forest – UCSF to Hold Final TAC Meeting (and some old pictures)

Posted on August 6, 2016 by

UCSF is planning to hold its final Technical Advisory Committee meeting on August 18th, 2016. These are a series of meetings in which two consultants, who have been retained by UCSF to write a plan for Sutro Cloud Forest (or, … Continue reading →

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Ishi – An Article from 1911

Posted on January 6, 2016 by

This New Year, we’d like to go back over 100 years to 1911, when Sutro Forest was 15-25 years old, time enough for the trees to have grown large enough to establish it as a forest. This is the story … Continue reading →

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A 1927 San Francisco Tourist Map Shows Sutro Forest

Posted on September 13, 2014 by

This delightful tourist map from 1927 has been circulating on the Internet. It’s got a lot of fun detail. (Clicking on this map will make it larger.) The RichmondSF blog researched the map, and had some interesting notes about the … Continue reading →

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California Eucalyptus: A Biological Treasure

Posted on September 22, 2009 by

Someone posted an intriguing note on the A Historic Forest page of this website. It suggested something we hadn’t thought of before: that the eucalyptus here may be a repository of genetic material not found even back in Australia. Here’s … Continue reading →

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