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Restricting Access to San Francisco’s Parks
Access to our parks and especially our Natural Areas is one of our key concerns with the Natural Areas Program – and the values that underlie it, now being spread to all open lands. (Click here for our...
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Glen Canyon with Stairs and Coyote
This is one of our “park visitor” series – first person accounts of our parks, published with permission. Source: Wikipedia (fair use) It was dusk when I climbed down into Glen Canyon from the...
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Excluded Bike Riders Volunteered Thousands of Hours
Tom Borden, a bike rider who has been active with various recreational bicycle organizations in San Francisco contacted us some weeks ago. A rash of new restrictive signage has gone up all over the...
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Signs of Annoyance – Natural Areas Program
Recently, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department (SFRPD) spent an estimated half-million dollars on signage, most of which listed various Don’ts (though ironically, they start with “San...
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McLaren Park walk: Looking at the Future, Minus 800 Trees
[Apologies: Some glitch on the website caused Draft versions of this post to be published. Please ignore the earlier posts.] On a Saturday in late August 2015, the San Francisco Forest Alliance...
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San Francisco’s RPD is Closing 31% of Our Parkland in “Natural Areas”
[This article has been updated 7/21/2016 to include more recent pictures. The text has been slightly edited.] The San Francisco Forest Alliance opposes the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department...
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Hands Off Mt Davidson’s Forest – Take it Away from NAP
San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department’s Natural Areas Program (NAP) plans to remove 1/3 (10 acres) of the mature and healthy forest on Mount Davidson. We think the 30-acre forested area of the...
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Disturbing Story of the Mt Davidson Bench
Here’s the story of the Mount Davidson Eagle Scout bench, from its sudden removal by the Natural Areas Program, to the silly lie included in the Environmental Impact Report on the Natural Resource...
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Before and After in the “Natural” Areas
Satire… for when truth is so strange that most people don’t believe it
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So Much City, So Little Green
This beautiful aerial view of San Francisco, taken by Fiona Fay and used here with permission, shows just how important our urban forests are. At just 13.7% cover, San Francisco has amongst the...
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Glen Canyon Park: One Year after Start of Tree Destruction
The Glen Canyon Playground and Tennis Court Project – as the city is calling this – is nearly completed. In February or March 2014 there will be great fanfare at the completion of this project. Video...
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Help us save the urban forests in our San Francisco Parks
We must save the urban forests in our San Francisco Parks; Sign now, help stop NAP: http://t.co/QQH0tsjlVE #sf #sanfrancisco #mayoredlee — SF Forest Alliance (@SForestAlliance) March 6, 2014
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Improvements to the Glen Canyon Park Playground?
Last month we reported on the status of the Glen Canyon Park Playground Improvements. We mentioned the new playground and that it will not be the same as it was:- a steep staircase to the slide and...
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Fighting The NAP Nativist Agenda
Once in a while, we want to affirm the values that San Francisco Forest Alliance stands for. We’re a grass-roots organization of people who love nature and the environment, pay taxes responsibly, and...
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Restricting Access in McLaren Park
Plans are afoot in McLaren Park to close many of the trails people actually enjoy, and substitute a limited number of broad road-type paths. Most park users don’t realize this is going on – not just in...
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