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Tag Archives: trees
“Enough with this Tree Genocide”: Comments from The Petition to Save Mount Sutro Forest
In two days, 540 people have signed the petition to save the trees on Mt Sutro. To recap, the UCSF plan for Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve – of which it owns 61 acres – proposes to fell over 90% … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, eucalyptus, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged eucalyptus, mount sutro, Petition, Sutro Forest, trees, UCSF
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Glen Canyon Park: The Tree-Cutting Started
We’ve been following the situation in Glen Canyon Park at this site for some time now. In a nutshell: Major changes are planned for Glen Canyon, which until a couple of years ago was a bucolic treasure of a park. … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Natural areas Program, Neighborhood impact
Tagged environment, eucalyptus, Glen Canyon Park, native plants, trees
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“Functional, Beautiful Ecosystems Should Be Left Alone”
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
Posted in Environment, Natural areas Program, UCSF
Tagged environment, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, trees, UCSF
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Saving the Trees of Glen Canyon Park
Glen Canyon Park is one of San Francisco’s jewels. It’s a long narrow tree-filled canyon, including the “owl tree” where a Great Horned Owl has raised its young many years in succession, and two natural bee trees. Of its 70 … Continue reading
Trees and Income Inequality
Many of us intuitively associate trees and “nice” areas. Realtors know this; if a house for sale is on a tree-lined street, the ad always says so. In 2008, researchers looking into the question found that the demand for trees … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, Environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, Natural areas Program, UCSF
Tagged mount sutro, Natural Areas Program, trees
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Miranda’s Daily Blog: Day 13
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
Posted in deforestation, Environment, eucalyptus, nativism
Tagged eucalyptus, Sutro Forest, tree killers, trees
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Mt. Davidson Park – An Open Space Preserved for Recreation or Native Plants?
It’s not just Sutro Forest. Native plant interests threaten trees throughout the city, and in particular, in San Francisco’s other significant century-old forest: Mt Davidson. A favorite area for the residents of Miraloma Park, the Significant Natural Areas Management Plan … Continue reading
Posted in deforestation, eucalyptus, nativism, Natural areas Program
Tagged eucalyptus, Miraloma Park, Mt Davidson, native plants, nativism, Natural Areas Program, trails, trees
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The San Francisco Forest Alliance
We’ve been critical of the so-called “Natural” areas program (or officially, the Significant Natural Resource Areas Plan) that covers some 1100 acres across 32 separate parks in San Francisco. While the idea of a Natural Area is appealing (as it … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, nativism, Natural areas Program
Tagged birds, habitat, herbicide, native plants, nativism, Natural Areas Program, san francisco, trees, wildlife
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Monarch Butterflies in Eucalyptus in San Francisco
Like everyone else, we knew that Monarch butterflies visit California’s coast in winter. What we didn’t know was that they’re right here in San Francisco! (The picture here isn’t from San Francisco, it’s from a commercial stock-photo site.) MONARCHS AMONG … Continue reading
Posted in eucalyptus, Natural areas Program
Tagged butterfly, eucalyptus, habitat, Monarch butterfly, Treasure Island, trees, Yerba Buena
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“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
Mount Sutro: Cloud Forest Pictures by Paul Hudson
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
Posted in eucalyptus, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged cloud forest, eucalyptus, mount sutro, Sutro Forest, trees
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Killing 5000 Trees in Mount Sutro Forest
[ETA (1 Aug 2011): We’ve just received a recent update from UCSF. It appears the timeline has been pushed out. If the projects are approved, they will start felling trees in August 2012. This Google Map shows the forest. (You … Continue reading
Posted in Mount Sutro Stewards, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, UCSF
Tagged cloud forest, Sutro Stewards, tree killers, trees, UCSF
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Bees and Blue Gum Eucalyptus and Herbicides
We saw this interesting letter to the Editor in the Pulitzer Prize winning Pt Reyes Light newspaper. It’s reproduced here with permission from the edition of 6 Jan 2011. It makes reference to the two-part article Myth of the Eucalyptus … Continue reading
Posted in eucalyptus, Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon
Tagged eucalyptus, trees, wildlife
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Pt Reyes Light, an Informed Arborist, and Eucalyptus Globulus
We saw this interesting article (reproduced here with permission) on the website/ blog Death of A Million Trees, whose tagline is Saving trees from needless destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Pt Reyes Light is a Pulitzer Prize … Continue reading
Quirky Oaks: Parody of an anti-Eucalyptus Pamphlet
We’d never expected to come upon a well-researched tree article that made us laugh. This one from the HCN Newsletter cracked us up: It was riff on a widely-circulated but biased pamphlet on eucalyptus, and it was spot on. [Edited … Continue reading
Tree-killers in San Francisco: Reward Offered
It wasn’t just on Tank Hill that tree-killers were active: Someone’s currently killing trees in Golden Gate Park. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that someone cut down 15 newly-planted saplings. There have been five or more such attacks since May … 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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San Francisco – an Urban Forest Map
It’s ambitious: a database listing every tree in San Francisco. There’s a new wiki in town: An Urban Forest Map that relies on crowd-sourced information, rather like Wikipedia. The project is live now (in beta), and anyone can play. The … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged calfire, san francisco, trees
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Nativism vs the Environment
When most people think of preserving natural areas, they envision saving green growing things from encroachment by parking lots and housing development. Nativists focus on a different agenda – removing non-native plants and substituting natives. What’s wrong with that? Several … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Herbicides, Herbicides: Roundup, Garlon, nativism
Tagged eucalyptus, eucalyptus myths, herbicide, native plants, nativism, trees, wildlife
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Low Fire Risk and the “Historic Trail”
I attended a meeting called by Parks and Rec this evening, to discuss opening access to the forest at 17th and Stanyan in Cole Valley. This the black dotted line in the map below. [ETA: The map was distributed at … Continue reading
Erroneous “Facts” from “Nature in the City”
A few days ago, under the auspices of Shaping San Francisco, ‘Nature in the City’ (NC) offered a public talk on the “urban forest” (their quote-marks, they don’t appear to believe in urban forests). NC is the parent organization of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Meetings, nativism
Tagged josiah clarke, mt sutro stewards, nativism, nature in the city, trees
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‘Heartbreakingly Beautiful’ Trees
Almost as though in response to our item about the Chron’s indifference to trees, the 27th December issue carried Tom Stienstra’s marvelous piece about the Peters Creek redwood grove, which passes the “blindfold test.” “What is the Blindfold Test? Imagine … Continue reading
Tree-friendly? New York Times vs SF Chronicle
Yesterday’s Bay Area section of the New York Times carried an article on trees that was both sad and refreshing. Sad, because it talked of tree-destruction – which seems to have become a California Thing. Refreshing, because it actually appeared … Continue reading
Global Warming & Quarter-mile relocations
Someone drew my attention to an article in today’s San Francisco Chronicle: “Global Warming to Keep Animals, Plants On Move.” The story was about a study from a scientific team from Cal Academy of Sciences, UC Berkeley, and Carnegie Institute … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, nativism
Tagged climate change, eucalyptus, global warming, native plants, nativism, sequester carbon, trees, wildlife
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Trees, Copenhagen, and Climate Change
Carolyn Blair, Executive Director of the SF Tree Council (contact details below), added a comment to this website yesterday mentioning an article about the meeting at Copenhagen. We felt it deserved a separate post. “Did anyone see this important article?” … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, eucalyptus, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest
Tagged cloud forest, Sutro Forest, Tree Council, trees
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FEMA, New York Times
The New York Times blog yesterday linked to this website, via an article about FEMA and the East Bay. We’re flattered, though the opening sentence of the article, about “non-native, frowzy eucalyptus” didn’t promise unbiased reporting. (To be fair, this … Continue reading
Cutting Down Trees
Someone brought over the November/ December 09 copy of the Sierra Club Magazine. It fell open to the centerfold. There in a big blue box and large letters it said: ————- “It’s cool because people are cutting down trees instead … Continue reading
Posted in eucalyptus, nativism, UCSF
Tagged mount sutro, native plants, nativism, sierra club, Sutro Forest, trees
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Slate magazine on Invasives
Someone sent me a link to a thoughtful article in Slate magazine called “Don’t Sweat the Invasion” by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow. The author starts out with the example of tamarisk, also known as salt-cedar; it’s an “exotic invasive” that spreads along … Continue reading
Posted in nativism
Tagged eucalyptus, mount sutro, native plants, nativism, sutro, Sutro Forest, trees, wildlife
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Mount Sutro Forest That Was 