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October 16, 2007  Presidio Park Stewards at
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Friday October 19Presidio Plant Patrol Saturday October 20 Friends of Glen Canyon Fort Funston Nursery Friends of Shields/Orizaba Rocky Outcrop Friends of Brooks Park Land's End Stewards Presidio Nursery For more information, contact info, and directions to natural areas and restoration sites, go to the Community Calendar on the Nature in the City website. Become a member of Nature in the City today and get a new map! Go online, email or call 415-564-4107 to join us.  And don't forget to shop at Cole Hardware, the city's favorite hardware store, and help Nature in the City! Calendar Of Events
*For more calendar items, as well as regular volunteer opportunites, go to the Nature in the City Calendar to view all posted events. TopOther
News
 SFBC Says No to Prop H(San Francisco Bicycle Coalition) If allowed to pass: • Prop. H will increase by fivefold the amount of parking in our downtown core, the S.F. Planning Department estimates that Prop. H would bring 20,000 additional cars to San Francisco every day. • Prop. H will give building owners the right to add private parking garages regardless of whether existing or future bicycle routes are impaired, sidewalk conditions are degraded, Muni stops are moved, or landmark street trees are cut down. Along with working to defeat Prop. H, the SFBC is also urging members to vote in support of Proposition A, the Muni Reform measure - it will improve the efficiency of our transit system, giving more options for sustainable transportation. A Little Meat Does a Planet Good (TreeHugger) It turns out the diet with the smallest possible "foodprint" (for New York state) contains a portion of meat and dairy. Cornell
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this issue:
News Board Vote on Park Bond Butterflies Coastal Cleanup Tally Presidio Watershed Update Weeds in the City Calendar News Board Vote on Park Bond This just in! This afternoon the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to place the 2008 Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks General Obligation Bond on the February 2008 ballot. This is great news for the City's natural lands and our citizens' connection to nature where they live, since $5 Million dollars will go toward nature trail restoration in Recreation and Park's natural areas. And the Port of San Francisco committed to including nature restoration as part of their projects along the waterfront. THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO HELPED ADVOCATE FOR THIS! Top October 2nd marked the day Liam O'Brien and Matt Zlatinuch snapped the attached picture of the city's 31st butterfly species. The
California Sister, Adelpha
bredowii, with a "classic, paltry forewing
flap" glided past them and landed on an oak, allowing Matt to
take
this spectacular photo at the corner of Kobbe and Upton, in the
Presidio. This confirms John Hafernik's sighting from this time last year of this species along Lobos Creek. It was a solid sighting because this butterfly is obligated to oak as a host. Shapiro's new book says this fall brood "disperses beyond its range into cities to push the extremes of its range." Says O'Brien,
"I think, however,
with this sighting's proximity to last year's, it's a breeding
population folks, and I think we have another magnificent species."
Nearly
70% of this haul was taken in on the eastern shore with 400 volunteers
(in just 3 hours)! The Parks Conservancy posted
some info about how the west side of the event went here. Ecological restoration of the
spectacular natural landscapes of the Presidio is a high priority for Nature
in the City. Public comment on the Tennessee Hollow Upper Watershed
Revitalization Project
closed on October 9th. We spoke with the Presidio Trust last week, and
they gave us a sketch of the next steps. Weeds in the City The San Francisco Weed Management Area (SFWMA) is a consortium of public agencies and local non-governmental organizations dedicated to cooperating to prevent the introduction, establishment and spread of invasive weeds in the City and County of San Francisco. The group pays particular attention to the threat and impact of weeds on our precious natural areas. Nature in the City led a successful effort with our WMA colleagues to secure funding from the California Department of Food and Agriculture to restore habitat on Twin Peaks as well as to collect existing information about weeds across our many land management jurisdictions. The SFWMA will pursue the habitat restoration project with the cooperation of the San Francisco Fire Department, on whose land on the north slopes of Twin Peaks the weed work will occur. Please visit www.sfwma.org to learn more about the Weed Management Area and the problem of invasive weeds in San Francisco. Top
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