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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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Tag Archives: environment
The Bee Tree Was NOT Saved
Sadly, the bee tree was a casualty of the tree destruction that was going on. We had understood that the bee-friends of San Francisco had talked to the SFRPD, and they agreed that the stump would be cut off at … Continue reading
Still More Trees Going Down in Glen Canyon
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Felling Trees, General
Tagged environment, Glen Canyon Park, Glen Canyon Park tree-felling, Trees
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Trail Construction and Destruction Starts in Glen Canyon
The trail work has started in Glen Canyon. What’s happening now seems reasonable; they are widening and flattening a popular trail, and adding native plants. However, it also apparently involves “decommissioning” a social trail (the dark orange line on the … Continue reading
More Trees Gone in Glen Canyon
The tree-felling continues – up the slope above Alms Road, and around the Recreation Center. The wooded feeling of the Elk entrance and the area surrounding the Rec Center is gone. Here are photographs from Ron Proctor, documenting the ongoing … Continue reading
Day 3: The Century-old Trees are Still Going Down
This article is reproduced from SFForest.net It’s Day 3 of the tree-felling at Glen Canyon Park. This video shows one huge tree, 133 years old, going down: [HERE’s the link.] And here, for those who cannot bear to watch the … Continue reading
The Second Day of Tree-felling at Glen Canyon
The line of ancient eucalyptus trees at the Elk Street entrance to Glen Canyon Park is being destroyed. HERE is a link to a Youtube video on the second day of the tree-felling. Below is a selection of still pictures … Continue reading
The Trees are Being Felled – Now
Even as we write, the tree-felling has started in Glen Canyon. First to go will be the line of grand old eucalyptus trees, over a century old, at the Elk Street entrance. This is despite the fact that the audience … Continue reading
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
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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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Glen Canyon Park: These Trees are Targets (Photos)
It’s started. SF Rec and Park have posted signs indicating some of the trees that are to be chopped down. The comment period is open until October 15. Here are some of the trees that will be felled. If you … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, felling trees, Glen Canyon Park, Glen Canyon Park tree-felling
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Save the Trees of Glen Canyon Park, San Francisco 