The presentation will be next Wednesday, and will cover what the city can do with $250K in tree funding.
From 6 to 8 PM next Wednesday, January 15 at the LGBT Community Center at Market and Octavia, the meeting will spotlight a presentation by the city's Department of Public Works, the Urban Forestry Council and the Friends of the Urban Forest. The presentation will unveil a Draft Urban Forest Plan, which includes plans for the care and maintenance of the city's existing 700,000 trees and a plan for increasing overall tree coverage. One alarming fact that comes out of the plan is the observation that our dear green city is less forested than cities like New York, Chicago, and even Los Angeles. The reforesting plan is bound to include the Haight and Western Addition (think the new Masonic corridor, and the Haight's Public Realm Improvement Plan), and the Haight is one of the areas covered in the city's tree census, which is published here and great reading for you environmental science buffs out there. You can also read the city's report on how pricey our big green friends are, right here. This would also be a good time to brush up on the status of the reconfiguration by UCSF of Sutro Forest, the latest news on which is that the school revised its initial proposal and reduced the affected target area from 46 acres to 36, and thus limited the number of trees slated to be removed.
From 6 to 8 PM next Wednesday, January 15 at the LGBT Community Center at Market and Octavia, the meeting will spotlight a presentation by the city's Department of Public Works, the Urban Forestry Council and the Friends of the Urban Forest. The presentation will unveil a Draft Urban Forest Plan, which includes plans for the care and maintenance of the city's existing 700,000 trees and a plan for increasing overall tree coverage. One alarming fact that comes out of the plan is the observation that our dear green city is less forested than cities like New York, Chicago, and even Los Angeles. The reforesting plan is bound to include the Haight and Western Addition (think the new Masonic corridor, and the Haight's Public Realm Improvement Plan), and the Haight is one of the areas covered in the city's tree census, which is published here and great reading for you environmental science buffs out there. You can also read the city's report on how pricey our big green friends are, right here. This would also be a good time to brush up on the status of the reconfiguration by UCSF of Sutro Forest, the latest news on which is that the school revised its initial proposal and reduced the affected target area from 46 acres to 36, and thus limited the number of trees slated to be removed.
