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Still More Trees Cut Down in Sutro Forest – March 2022
The article below is essentially a sequel to the previous one. More Trees Being Cut Down in Sutro Forest and is also republished with permission from SutroForest.com ——————————————————– As readers of this site will know, a lot of trees are … Continue reading
Posted in Fells Trees
Tagged environment, Mount Sutro Cloud Forest, Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve, tree removals, UCSF
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More Trees Being Cut Down in Sutro Forest
This article has been republished from SutroForest.com with permission and updates. “Can you tell me what’s happening on the north side of the forest? I’ve been watching them cut down a swath from a lunchroom at UCSF the last few … Continue reading
Posted in Fells Trees, wildlife
Tagged environment, Mt Sutro Cloud Forest, Sutro Forest, UCSF cutting down trees
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Herbicide Time – Triclopyr in Glen Canyon
It’s January, and San Francisco is brightened by the yellow oxalis springing up on green hillsides. Less bright, though, is the usual Blights of Spring – herbicides applied in our parks where our kids and pups play. Here’s an idyllic … Continue reading
Beautiful Trees at Stow Lake to be Cut
San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department (SFRPD) is cutting down more trees. Several supporters alerted us to warning notices on eight large, beautiful trees at Stow Lake that have been marked for destruction. Why? Apparently to repair the perimeter path … Continue reading
Toxic Roundup Herbicide, Fruiting Blackberry
The SFRPD’ Natural Resources Department (NRD) is spraying toxic herbicides on Golden Gate Heights park. The pesticides being used are Roundup (glyphosate) and Polaris (imazapyr). Someone recently saw this notice: On the next visit, the sign indicated that the spraying … Continue reading
We Need to Reduce Toxic Herbicide Use in San Francisco
This note is from Anastasia Glikshtern, an officer of San Francisco Forest Alliance and a long-time San Franciscan. Why We Need the San Francisco Toxic Herbicides Reduction Act Most San Francisco residents do not know that the city routinely uses … Continue reading
Nesting in the Eucalyptus
Of course it’s no surprise to any of our readers that eucalyptus stands are an excellent resource for nesting birds. A colony of double-crested cormorants nests (or did nest) near Lake Merced; great horned owls nest in eucalyptus trees in … Continue reading
Posted in wildlife
Tagged Blue Gum eucalyptus, cormorant, egret, environment, eucalyptus life span, heron, nesting in eucalyptus
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Why Large-Scale Native Plant “Restoration” Cannot Work
This article discusses two approaches to native plant restoration. One creates jobs and provides healthy outdoor opportunities. The other poisons plants with synthetic chemicals. Neither actually works to restore native plants. Reprinted from Conservation Sense and Nonsense with permission and … Continue reading
Posted in "Natural" Areas Program, Applies Pesticides, Wastes Money
Tagged environment, nativism, Pesticides
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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
NRD Herbicide Use Shoots Up in 2020 in San Francisco
As we have been doing for many years now, we compiled the pesticide usage data for San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department for 2020. It’s getting worse year by year. Toxic herbicide use (i.e. herbicides classified as “More Hazardous” or … Continue reading
Respect the Nest – Wildcare Thinks of Baby Animals and Birds
Recently, Wildcare – a wild animal rehab organization – published a warning. It’s nesting season and they ask everyone to RESPECT the NEST. It’s republished here with permission. Respect the Nest by Michael Schwab With the help of nationally-acclaimed artist … 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
More Damage for Sutro Forest
San Francisco Forest Alliance recently responded to UCSF’s Draft Environmental Impact Report consequent on changes it plans to the 2014 Long Range Development Plan. We publish that here. We also publish with permission an article from SutroForest.com, the website that … Continue reading
Trees Targeted for Destruction In Golden Gate Park
One would think that in these times of climate change and San Francisco’s small and shrinking tree canopy, every effort would be made to save the trees we already have. San Francisco already has only a 13.7% tree canopy cover, … Continue reading
Posted in "Natural" Areas Program, Fells Trees
Tagged environment, Golden Gate Park, Habitat destruction, trees
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SF Rec & Parks Using a New (Old) Pesticide
One of our supporters reports the “Natural Resources Department” (NRD) of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department (SFRPD) is using a new pesticide on Mt Davidson: Vastlan (from Dow). It’s being applied in a so-called “natural area” now named … Continue reading
Posted in Applies Pesticides
Tagged environment, Mount Davidson, SF Environment, SF Natural Areas, SFRPD, Triclopyr
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Pesticide Use Up in San Francisco Parks, Natural Areas – 2019
In 2019, SFRPD applied herbicides 243 times, the most since 2013. Of these, 144 applications were in “Natural Areas” (this includes PUC areas managed in the same way – i.e. use of toxic herbicides against plants they dislike). Though the … 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
San Francisco Cutting Down its Ancient Trees – Sutro Forest/ Clarendon
This article is republished from SutroForest.com, with permission. Sutro Forest extended along Christopher to Clarendon Avenue. The section at Christopher and Clarendon was decimated for the rebuilding of the pump station in 2009, possibly poisoned in 2013… and in 2019, … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, Mount Sutro Cloud Forest, trees
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San Francisco Cutting Down its Ancient Trees – Lake Merced
Though San Francisco’s tree cover is inadequate by the standards of any major city, it is fortunate to have a lot of old trees – many of them over 100 years old. Unfortunately, instead of treasuring these trees – it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, Habitat destruction, Lake Merced, San Francisco Forest Alliance, trees
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Opposing Toxic Herbicide Use
San Francisco Forest Alliance is a 501(c)4 not-for-profit organization with a mission of Inclusive Environmentalism. We oppose the use of toxic pesticides in our parks, public lands, and watersheds. Here’s why. Herbicidal chemicals are more toxic, more persistent, more mobile … Continue reading
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