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Recent Posts
- Finally, Good News for the Glen Canyon Owls
- Glen Canyon’s Full of Stairs
- Bees in Glen Canyon – Lose Some, Win Some
- Trail Missteps in Glen Canyon
- Return of a Rehabilitated Owl
- Sad Death of a Glen Park Barn Owl
- Canyon Disappointments – by Tony Holiday
- Glen Canyon Park: Nine Months after Tree Destruction
- A Beautiful Canopied Alcove is Destroyed: Then and Now
- Last chance: See Glen Canyon’s Outback Trail before it’s Tamed
- Glen Canyon Trails Project : 31 Trees Will be Cut in September
- Glen Canyon Park: What It Looks Like 6 Months After the Trees
- Six Degrees of Separation: Nobel Prize, Glen Canyon
- Glen Park Rec Center: The Next Phase
- Glen Canyon Trees – Why We Should Have Saved Them, and Where It’s At Now
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Glen Canyon Park: Another Appeal Submitted
Edited to Add: The appeal described below was ruled “untimely.” This left the possibility of legal action by the environmental group WiserParks (formerly known as ForestForestForever), which they decided not to pursue for practical reasons. Environmental group ForestForestForever has submitted … Continue reading
Posted in Felling Trees, Natural Areas Program
Tagged Appeal, Board of Supervisors, environment, felling trees, Glen Canyon Park
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Glen Canyon’s Updated Planting Plan – Nov 1, 2012
Yesterday, we obtained a new Master Planting Plan for Glen Canyon Park. Nearly half are still shrubs and small trees. Still, it’s an improvement over the previous one, dated May 2012. It actually has some tall trees in it [Edited … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Bushes and shrubs, environment, San Francisco Recreations and Parks Department, Trees
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If You Can’t See the Videos…
This is copied over from SFForest.net Some of our readers see our posts in their email boxes, if they’ve subscribed to this site. If you’re one of them, this is a heads-up that you may not be getting the whole … Continue reading
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Natural Area Program’s Pretty Propaganda – and Some Truth-Telling
This is republished from SFForest.net The Natural Areas Program’s response to its critics is a very pretty piece of propaganda: This Youtube Video. Please do watch it, it’s under five minutes of lovely images and soothing voice-over. … Only… it’s … Continue reading
“Reforesting” Glen Canyon with Bushes: What 163 trees?
San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department (SF RPD) has been claiming that it will plant 163 trees to replace the 58 trees it currently plans to fell for the Rec Center (2008 Bond) project that will move the existing tennis … Continue reading
Glen Canyon Trees: Decoding the Arborist’s Reports
In September 2012, we published our analysis of the tree-felling expected in Glen Canyon. A new arborists’ report dated October 1, 2012 changes the numbers. It now recommends cutting down nearly 150 trees – still a lot, but an improvement … Continue reading
Posted in Felling Trees
Tagged Bushes and shrubs, Glen Canyon Park, Glen Canyon Park tree-felling, Trees
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Support for the Trees: Glen Park Association Meeting Oct 2012
We’d like to thank Michael Rice and Sally Ross of the Glen Park Association for holding an open and well-run meeting last night, 18 Oct 2012. A number of topics were discussed, but the most important from our point of … Continue reading
The Birds of Glen Canyon Park
Janet Kessler, wildlife photographer, has taken a series of pictures of the birds of Glen Canyon Park. They range in size from the tiny hummingbirds and bushtits to the handsome owls and hawks. Click HERE to go to a page … Continue reading
Posted in Impacting Wildlife
Tagged birds, brown creeper, Glen Canyon Park, Janet Kessler wildlife photographer, owls
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Nearly 3,000 Signatures! Delivering the Petitions
On October 14th, we electronically delivered the petitions signed by all of you to our San Francisco Officials and managers. On October 15th, we delivered them in hard-copy versions. We had over 2800 signatures on two nearly-identical petitions. The bound … Continue reading
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