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Season’s Greetings and Happy New Year!
The San Francisco Forest Alliance, a 501(c)4 not-for-profit organization with a mission of inclusive environmentalism, continues our campaign to protect our environment through outreach and providing information. As we near the end of 2022, we reflect that it’s been 11 years. … Continue reading
Season’s Greetings!
This December marks ten years of the San Francisco Forest Alliance. We’d like to reiterate our commitment to protecting our trees and access, and opposing toxic pesticides in the coming years. The San Francisco Forest Alliance wishes all our readers … Continue reading
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The National Park Service has an Epiphany
This article is reprinted with permission and minor edits from Conservation Sense and Nonsense. “We were probably always wrong to think about protected places as static.” – NPS Scientist During the Trump administration federal agencies were forced to be … Continue reading
More Destruction of Sutro Forest
We regret starting the year with sad news in this post from SutroForest.com. It is reprinted here with permission. With the new revised plan for UCSF’s Parnassus Campus having been approved by the UCSF Regents – despite San Francisco’s Board … Continue reading
Greetings of the Season, Best Wishes for 2021
It’s been a difficult year in a number of ways. The pandemic still rages, and tree-cutting continues. Nonetheless, there have been signs of hope for all of us. So here’s a candle in the dark to represent hope. Greetings for … Continue reading
We Still Need to Say, After All These Years: Black Lives Matter
In 2014, we first published our statement of support. It’s with something between sadness and horror that it’s essential we publish it again. In the intervening years, things have not improved for the African-American community. Because of the racism inherent … Continue reading
Answering the Smithsonian – The Flawed Logic of Native Plant Activism
In its April 2020 issue, the Smithsonian Magazine published an interview with Doug Tallamy, considered one of the fathers – or at least popularizers – of nativism. They asked Art Shapiro, who represents a broader view of the ecological role … Continue reading
GREETINGS FOR 2020!
San Francisco Forest Alliance is a 501(c)4 organization with a message of inclusive environmentalism. From 2011, we have been fighting to Eliminate toxic herbicides (including Roundup/Glyphosate) in our parks and watersheds, Preserve trees from unnecessary destruction, Preserve public access to … Continue reading
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Refuting Jake Sigg: No, 90% of Insects Do Not Eat Only Native Plants
Jake Sigg, considered the doyen of San Francisco’s native plant activists, has an influential newsletter. Recently, it said: “Did you know that 90 percent of insects can only eat the native plant species with which they’ve co-evolved?” It included a … Continue reading
Dead trees: the life of the forest
Throughout the city and the whole San Francisco Bay area, urban and suburban forests are being destroyed. The Natural Resource Area Management Plan targets 18,000 trees in San Francisco and Pacifica. In the East Bay, more than 50,000 trees may … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, Habitat destruction, Natural Areas Program, trees
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Sutro Forest Tree Destruction Started
In 2017, UCSF introduced a Plan that reduces the UCSF forest area by one-third, removes around 6,000 trees (new estimate!) and all the understory/ midstory shrubs. This has started. The article below is republished with permission and minor changes from SaveSutro.com, … Continue reading
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Native Plants are Flammable Too
Three of the most flammable plants in California landscapes are bay laurels, coyote brush, and chamise – all native. An evenhanded presentation of fire hazard ratings for all plants that does not downplay the danger of native plants or exaggerate … Continue reading
Season’s Greetings and a Hopeful New Year in 2019
We hope that the year ahead will bring a more positive attitude in the world to the environment, to preserving trees and growing more of them, and getting rid of toxic pesticides in our parks and watersheds. It’s a long … Continue reading
Vote NO on San Francisco’s Prop B
The San Francisco Forest Alliance recommends that you vote no on Proposition B in November 2018. https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/city-privacy-guidelines The proposition, City Privacy Guidelines, would set guidelines for future privacy laws, regulations, policies, and practices for the City. All parts of City … Continue reading
Vote NO on Measure FF!!
San Francisco Forest Alliance supported The Forest Action Brigade in opposing Measure FF. This article, republished here with permission from Death of a Million Trees (a website/ blog opposing unnecessary tree destruction and pesticide use) , outlines why it’s important … Continue reading
The Very Long Life of Eucalyptus Trees
This article is republished with permission and minor changes from Death of a Million Trees, a website that fights unnecessary tree killing in the San Francisco Bay Area. PUTTING ANOTHER MYTH TO REST: LIFESPAN OF BLUE GUM EUCALYPTUS … Continue reading
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Why a NO vote on AB 2470 (June 2018 election)
AB 2470, “Invasive Species” is a bill to “establish the Invasive Species Council of California, composed as prescribed, to help coordinate a comprehensive effort to exclude invasive species already established in the state. The bill would establish a California Invasive … Continue reading
Two Myths of Nativism: Mutually Exclusive Relationships, and Eucalyptus Allelopathy
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
Season’s Greetings!
With this holiday season rolling around again, we’re pausing to realize that the San Francisco Forest Alliance is six years old! Our first post – about pesticide use on Twin Peaks – was on Dec 19, 2011. It’s been six … Continue reading
Lessons From the Terrible North Bay Wildfires of 2017
This careful analysis of the terrible wildfires in the San Francisco Bay Area is republished with permission from MillionTrees, a website that fights to prevent unnecessary tree removal in the Bay Area. Lessons learned from fires in the North … Continue reading
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