We’re continuing to document the work at the Elk Street entrance of Glen Canyon. Here are some recent pictures. It looks like what it was – a logged worksite where lately there were trees and bushes. We hope the realigned tennis court, the new playground, and the grand new entrance with native plants will be worth it.

These are some pictures of the logged slope around Alm Rd.

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Most of the trees around the Recreation Center are gone now.

Here, below is the stump of the bee tree. Since we can’t go in there, we don’t know if the bees stayed. We hope they did. [Edited to add: They didn’t. HERE’s the story.]

But the greenery, the bushes you can see lower down in the picture between the road and the Rec Center? They all bear the white labels of doom. They’ll be gone, too, soon enough.

It looks bare from the road; there’s chain-link fence all around. A banner proclaims that SFRPD will plant 160 trees, even though that’s not exactly true: at least a quarter of the plantings will be shrubs. And the “trees” will be saplings – it will be take decades before they’re grown into anything like the majestic trees they’re supposed to replace.

Will Glen Canyon’s famous Great Horned Owl pair nest here this year? We don’t know. The season would be around now. We’ll post what we hear.

 AND THERE’S VIDEO

You can find a link to a video, HERE.  It’s Glen Canyon Park Demolition Project: Weeks 3 and 4  by neighbor Ron Proctor.  He has been documenting the project in photos and video.