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Tag Archives: trees
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
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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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Peter Ehrlich, 1948-2017
Peter Ehrlich was the Chief Forester at the Presidio, and sat on UCSF’s Technical Advisory Committee for Sutro Forest. Tragically, he died in a bicycle accident on May 2, 2017. The Presidio is holding a community work day in his … Continue reading
Native Plant Restoration: “Someone Pays and Someone Profits”
The article below was first published on April 1st on MillionTrees.me – a site fighting unnecessary tree destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. Though it references mainly the widespread tree destruction planned for the East Bay, the same principles apply broadly. … Continue reading
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Tagged FEMA misuse, native plants, nativism, trees
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The Forest at the City’s Heart – Sutro Cloud Forest
[This article was published recently on the website of the San Francisco Forest Alliance, and is reprinted here with permission. Thousands of trees are being cut down in San Francisco. Sutro Forest may actually be the worst, with many thousands … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, Sutro Forest, trees
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Old Trees Trap More Carbon and Fight Climate Change
The older a tree grows, the more carbon dioxide it grabs out of the air and sequesters, thus fighting climate change. Cutting down these large old trees releases this carbon back into the atmosphere. An article published in the Nature … Continue reading
Two Views of Sutro Forest
Tom Roop sent us several pictures of Sutro Forest and Mount Davidson from a distance. We’ve labeled them to clarify the position of the two mountains. He also sent us this one – a classic San Francisco vista. “The point … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, Sutro Forest, trees
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Mount Sutro Forest: Logging a Lovely Forest
“I was in the forest and it looks like a lumber company came in…” wrote one of our correspondents. UCSF has been aggressive about cutting down trees this winter. These are not evaluated as *hazardous* trees, as Jim Clark of … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, Sutro Forest, trees, UCSF
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More Sad News From Sutro Forest
More trees are being cut down in Sutro Forest, and machinery is being used that could damage the roots even of the trees left standing. We were driving down Medical Center Way today and saw machines and crews at work … Continue reading
A 1912 Tribute to Adolph Sutro
We’d like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year in 2016 and celebrate it with this tribute to Adolf Sutro, the philanthropist who gave so much to San Francisco including the forest we all love. It was written … Continue reading
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Tagged adolph sutro, san francisco, trees
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Sierra Club “Corrects” the Record – Fails
The Sierra Club shocked the environmental community, including many of its own members, when it not only failed to oppose the horrible East Bay plan to cut down hundreds of thousands of trees, but actually sued FEMA to cut down … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides
Tagged herbicide, sierra club, trees
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Sutro Forest: Fog and Puddles While Elsewhere Fires Burn
The fog rolled in, the mist filled the trees, and the forest’s music was the patter of the Cloud Forest’s internal rain. This was Sutro Cloud Forest on Saturday, September 12th 2015. We were glad of our raincoat as we … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud forest, environment, Sutro Forest, trees
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UCSF Quarterly CAG Meeting – March 2015 – Sutro Forest
We attended the quarterly Community Advisory Group (CAG) meeting, held this quarter at Mission Bay in UCSF’s new hospital and campus. SUTRO FOREST The section relevant to Sutro Forest were: 1) Today, March 5th, they are planning to cut down … Continue reading
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Tagged bird nesting season, trees
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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: Good News; Bad News; Action Alert
Last month, we wrote about about two things: Tree-cutting in Sutro Forest in the bird nesting season; San Francisco’s new “Office of Biodiversity” that was looking for a $250,000 grant to fund developing a so-called ‘Biodiversity Plan’ that would extend … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mount Sutro Stewards, nativism, UCSF
Tagged birds, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, Sutro Stewards, tree killers, trees
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Felling Orange-dot Trees in the Nesting Season
In March 2014, soon after UCSF said it was delaying work on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for now – it sent around this message. “Beginning on Monday, March 17th, Bartlett Tree Experts will be performing tree work throughout the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged birds, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, trees, wildlife
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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
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Tagged environment, trees
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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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A Tree Story in Mount Sutro Forest
There’d been a couple of really windy days in San Francisco recently, and trees went down all across the city. In Sutro Forest, too, one fell across a trail. We received notice of it from UCSF’s Damon Lew: “Due to … Continue reading
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
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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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“Don’t Cut Me Down”: Found in Sutro Forest
A few weeks ago, we’d mentioned seeing lots of trees along the Sutro Forest trails marked with orange blobs of paint. They were mostly trees in apparently poor condition, though they didn’t look especially hazardous. We assumed they had been … Continue reading
Sutro Forest’s on Channel 2 News
Channel 2 (KTVU) has coverage of the proposed tree-felling in Sutro Forest. Click on the picture below to go to their video. They were also present for part of UCSF’s public hearing this evening.
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Tagged Channel 2, environment, KTVU, mount sutro, trees, UCSF
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Mount Sutro Forest That Was 