Tag Archives: Sutro Forest

Sutro Forest Draft Environmental Impact Report: Opening For Comments

Posted on January 16, 2013 by webmaster

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 →

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“Functional, Beautiful Ecosystems Should Be Left Alone”

Posted on January 11, 2013 by webmaster

We received this letter from one of our readers, “R.R.”. It’s republished here with permission. ——————————— To Whom it May Concern: I am appalled at the planned destruction of thousands of trees by UCSF and the SFNAP [San Francisco Natural … Continue reading →

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Rat Poison Killed Glen Canyon’s Owl

Posted on December 18, 2012 by webmaster

This article has been republished from ForestKnolls.info as a caution to everyone interested in protecting our owls. They live in Sutro Forest, too. We hope and believe that UCSF does not use rodenticides in the Aldea Student Housing, but we … Continue reading →

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Sunset and Mushrooms: Mount Sutro Forest Hike, December 2012

Posted on December 3, 2012 by webmaster

Winter weather seems to have set in, with some major storms coming through. Last night, we had a major rain-storm. This evening, we grabbed the chance to go up into the forest. The setting sun gilded the trees. From the … Continue reading →

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Ostriches below Mt Sutro Forest

Posted on September 12, 2012 by webmaster

If we were thinking of non-native species of birds, we probably couldn’t get much further than ostriches. So it seemed particularly appropriate to post this picture. The graceful non-native trees of Mt Sutro Forest fill the background, and in the … Continue reading →

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Mt Sutro Cloud Forest: An August 2012 Hike

Posted on August 18, 2012 by webmaster

The summer fog’s been hanging around the Cloud Forest, and when we went up there late last weekend, it had lightened but not lifted. We climbed up by the Christopher entrance to the South Ridge trail. It was cool and … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro Forest: A Landmark

Posted on July 16, 2012 by webmaster

We were sent this great picture by Dr Morley Singer and it’s published here with permission. It was taken from the top of Golden Gate Bridge. Look over Dr Singer’s left shoulder, and you can see Mount Sutro Forest,  next … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro Cloud Forest: Forest report, July 2012

Posted on July 15, 2012 by webmaster

While the rest of the country bakes and burns, we’re having a cool San Francisco fog-belt summer. The other day, strong gusty winds blew the fog blew in from the sea, and we headed up to the forest. Mount Sutro … Continue reading →

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Sutro Forest: A Tale of Two Riders

Posted on June 12, 2012 by webmaster

We’ve written about bike riders on the mountain before, and our experience has been pleasant. The riders have been careful and polite. [Read: Courtesy on the Mountain] Others have told us about cyclists zipping down trails and getting in the … Continue reading →

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UCSF Postpones Tree-felling Another Year

Posted on June 5, 2012 by webmaster

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 →

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The Forest in May

Posted on May 23, 2012 by webmaster

Spring in the Sutro Forest is lovely. Where the canopy is largely unbroken, the sunlight streams through the trees with the filtered light particular to forests. Last week,  flowers bloomed in the lower reaches of the mountain: the pinkish-purple Robert … Continue reading →

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A Bobcat in Sutro Forest?

Posted on May 10, 2012 by webmaster

“We saw a bobcat today in Mt. Sutro by the Aldea Center,” commented reader RM on  MntSutro.com on 10 May 2012. We were fascinated. [Edited to replace the public domain picture with one the reader sent us – taken in … Continue reading →

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What Adolph Sutro Didn’t Know About the Eucalyptus Forest

Posted on March 12, 2012 by webmaster

Mount Sutro Cloud Forest, a century-old forest of eucalyptus, was planted by former mayor and philanthropist Adolph Sutro (1830-1898). Like the larger and better-known Muir Woods, it’s the last remnant of a forest that covered a much larger area – … Continue reading →

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Sutro Forest in February 2012

Posted on February 17, 2012 by webmaster

We were up in Mt Sutro Forest a couple of days ago, the day after Valentine’s Day. The forest looked appropriately romantic. A number of cherry trees were in bloom with tiny white flowers,  like this one near the entry … Continue reading →

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Sutro Forest at Sunrise

Posted on February 3, 2012 by webmaster

Lori D’Ambrosio sent us this lovely picture of Mount Sutro at sunrise. It’s taken from Mt Davidson, another eucalyptus forest under threat – from the Natural Areas Program. This is what we’re fighting to save. Beauty. Habitat. Not to mention … Continue reading →

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Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 13

Posted on December 26, 2011 by webmaster

Miranda’s trying to save a forest in Tasmania, on Mt Mueller. We’re trying to save a forest in San Francisco, on Mount Sutro. But here’s what really got me: “It seems almost crazy, doesn’t it? For someone who loves trees … Continue reading →

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Bees, Weeds, and Nativism

Posted on December 13, 2011 by webmaster

Nativists who favor “native pollinators” often believe that these insects – bees, butterflies, moths and similar insects – rely on native plants. The plants and insects co-evolved, goes the argument; and so to protect one, you must plant the other. … Continue reading →

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Glen Canyon Park: Pesticides and Habitat Removal

Posted on December 1, 2011 by webmaster

It’s that time of the year: Habitat removal time. In Glen Canyon Park, bushes and small trees that provide an impenetrable thicket for birds and animals to take cover are now becoming a lot more penetrable… … and bright-berried bushes, … Continue reading →

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Mt Sutro Forest: New Trail, No EIR

Posted on November 20, 2011 by webmaster

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 →

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USCF, Sutro Stewards, and the fund-raising “Fire Hazard”

Posted on October 23, 2011 by webmaster

Here we go again. We’d thought, after FEMA’s  letter that suggested that UCSF’s application had exaggerated the fire hazard in Mount Sutro Forest, that UCSF would back off an assessment clearly based on misunderstood and misinterpreted information. After all, Cal … Continue reading →

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Blue Angels over Mount Sutro Forest

Posted on October 7, 2011 by webmaster

Lulu Carpenter sent me this picture of the Blue Angels flying over Mount Sutro Forest, with the note “I wish I had had my camera out today – they flew right over my head, much lower than they were flying … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro: Cloud Forest Pictures by Paul Hudson

Posted on September 8, 2011 by webmaster

The other day, we happened upon this photograph on Flickr, the photo-sharing website that’s part of Yahoo. We go into the forest often, and have hundreds of pictures taken in various seasons and times of day. This was different. It … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro Forest: The View From Cole Valley

Posted on September 1, 2011 by webmaster

Soon after we posted our impression of a deforested Mount Sutro viewed from the south, someone wrote to us about the views from the Eastern side, where Cole Valley and Mount Olympus and many other neighborhoods currently enjoy the view … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro: Current Conditions in the Cloud Forest

Posted on August 30, 2011 by webmaster

Sunday evening, we were  in the forest. We started at Stanyan x 17th, going up the (Stanyan) “Kill-trees Trail.” BEAUTIFUL — AND SLUSHY It’s been very foggy in the last few weeks, and you can see the effect of the … Continue reading →

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Twin Peaks: Sunset and Evening Fog and Pesticides

Posted on August 24, 2011 by webmaster

It was an amazingly beautiful evening over San Francisco, and of course the views from Twin Peaks were spectacular. The fog flowed through and over the Golden Gate,  and only the towers poked through.  This is the stuff that turns … Continue reading →

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Destroying the Soundscape of Mount Sutro Forest

Posted on August 18, 2011 by webmaster

People have mentioned the sounds of and in the forest before, but it was only when we joined a Soundwalk in the forest that we became so conscious of it. Recently, someone pointed us to an article about Soundscape Ecology, … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro Forest: Sounds of the Cloud Forest

Posted on July 19, 2011 by webmaster

Bay Area Sound Ecology, an organization promoting awareness of the soundscape, conducts “soundwalks.” These are expeditions that focus on listening rather than just looking. Last evening, Jeremiah Moore and Andrea Williams led such a soundwalk in the Mount Sutro Cloud … Continue reading →

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A Map of Mount Sutro Forest

Posted on July 2, 2011 by webmaster

Readers of this site may remember that a few months ago, we took down a number of maps after we received a strongly-worded legal letter. We had assumed they were in the public domain (they were based on city/ UCSF … Continue reading →

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Roundup, Birth defects, and the new trail in Mount Sutro Forest

Posted on June 8, 2011 by webmaster

The new trail connecting Stanyan (just above 17th Avenue) with Medical Center Way opened a few days ago. Though still marred by the stumps of dead trees and amputated shrubs, it provides better access from the Cole Valley side of … Continue reading →

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Mount Sutro Forest as Habitat: Janet Kessler in ‘Way Out West’

Posted on June 7, 2011 by webmaster

We’ve often written about the importance of Mount Sutro Forest as habitat. (For instance: here.) Everywhere in our city, eucalyptus provides nesting and perching sites for many different birds, as does acacia which grows as a sub-canopy in many parts … Continue reading →

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