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Nature ID: other links of interest
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From Monterey Bay and California areas beyond. Index to Nature ID. Local orgs and agencies. Other links of interest. Other links of interest. Links last updated: 01/15/15. As I've looked online for IDs, I've also come across several local, hiking, nature, or relevant sites of interest. Lists of plants and animals with special status are marked with an asterisk ( *. Please let me know in comments if a link does not work. Birdguy.net useful links. Carol Leigh's Wildflower Hotsheet. Live webcam links @ Mont...
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Blocks Access | San Francisco Forest Alliance
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San Francisco Forest Alliance. Preserving Public Parks for the Public. Contact Details and Addresses. San Francisco’s RPD is Closing 31% of Our Parkland in “Natural Areas”. July 16, 2016. This article has been updated 7/21/2016 to include more recent pictures. The text has been slightly edited.]. NAP is restricting parks to on-trail use only – which shrinks the parks to a fraction of their original usable size. Grandview Park with Fenced Trail. The SNRAMP is not yet certified, and as such, should not be ...
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Drought-Adapted Eucalyptus NOT Dying by the Thousand | San Francisco Forest Alliance
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San Francisco Forest Alliance. Preserving Public Parks for the Public. Contact Details and Addresses. A Rare Walk in Idyllic Threatened Forest – Sharp Park, Pacifica. Roundup Reclassified as Tier I – SF Dept of Environment →. Drought-Adapted Eucalyptus NOT Dying by the Thousand. June 24, 2015. This is a recent post. But he’s mistaken. EUCALYPTUS RESPONSE TO DROUGHT. Blue gum eucalyptus trees have buds buried deep under their bark. When the tree is stressed, they may shed adult leaves and later sprout...
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HUMOR | San Francisco Forest Alliance
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San Francisco Forest Alliance. Preserving Public Parks for the Public. Contact Details and Addresses. Humor and satire. For when the situation gets surreal…. Note: Please submit any pieces for consideration to our general email address, SFForestNews@gmail.com and they will be passed on to our Humor editors.). The NAP’s going to get you! Park Bathroom Paradox: Funding What? Contributed by Eric Miller). Two from “Jonathan Stueart”…. Coming soon to a Natural Area near you? The More-Ax, evil twin of the Lorax.
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Ruins Habitat | San Francisco Forest Alliance
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San Francisco Forest Alliance. Preserving Public Parks for the Public. Contact Details and Addresses. San Francisco RPD Map of Responsibility Areas for Pesticides (and Unrecorded Spraying). March 17, 2016. Click here for the full-size (readable! PDF map: PSA and OS Map. Honeybee in oxalis flower. In other, somewhat related news: We received the pesticide usage reports for January 2016. The Natural Areas Program was the only section using herbicides in January, all of it Garlon 4 Ultra against oxalis.
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Wastes Money | San Francisco Forest Alliance
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San Francisco Forest Alliance. Preserving Public Parks for the Public. Contact Details and Addresses. Who is Funding the Campaign for Prop B? May 24, 2016. You’re probably going to see lots of material in support of Proposition B (the 30-year, $4.65 billion set-aside for park funding with very little oversight on how it’s spent). They have a war-chest of nearly $400 thousand to promote this measure. Where’s the money coming from? More than half of it is from two sources:. San Francisco Parks Alliance.
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IN THE NEWS | San Francisco Forest Alliance
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San Francisco Forest Alliance. Preserving Public Parks for the Public. Contact Details and Addresses. The San Francisco Examiner. Ran an article called. A Shady Story in San Francisco. On August 28, 2016. (Click on the title for the full article.). Here’s the beginning:. Did you know San Francisco originally didn’t have hardly any trees? People loved the new forests then, as they do today. Windbreaks, provided by the trees, make walking and playing in the parks more pleasant. Trees muffle the sou...But i...
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Marina Times - Pet Pages: Coyote behavior and peaceful coexistence
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Volume 28 Issue 9 Celebrating our 25th year! Marinatimes.com September 2011. Coyote behavior and peaceful coexistence. Coyotes share a trail in San Francisco. By becoming aware of coyote behavior and needs, you can become part of the solution to make coexistence work. Be aware of these observed coyote behaviors in San Francisco parks:. When chased, coyotes, especially the alpha coyotes, become upset and may chase back, bark, or even nip to move the dog away and warn it. Visual communication and body lang...
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McLaren Park's birds and animals
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Birds and other animals. Significant Natural Resource Areas Management Plan. The Natural Areas Program. Is the branch of SFRPD. Responsible for managing the City’s Natural Areas, including most all of McLaren Parks 165 acres of open space. The 2006 Draft of their Significant Natural Resource Areas Management Plan (currently undergoing Environmental Impact Review. Can be found here:. The McLaren Park section. Urban Forests and Migratory Birds. McLaren Park bird stories. The hawks of McLaren Park. The gras...
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Political Action | San Francisco Forest Alliance
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San Francisco Forest Alliance. Preserving Public Parks for the Public. Contact Details and Addresses. The only way to stop this destructive program is for the City to recognize that most people oppose it. Here are six things you can do to take action:. To your Supervisor, the Mayor, Recreation and Park Department, and Recreation and Park Commission. Here’s the contact information : http:/ sfforest.net/political-action/contact-details-and-addresses/. Ask friends and neighbors to do so as well. Our parks a...
