SF News Tree Wars Brewing Over Removal Of Nonnative Eucalyptus A city plan to remove about 18,000 nonnative plants from San Francisco public parks over the next 20 years has some residents up in arms over "plant fascism." The plan has been
SF News BART Service Crippled By Pine Needles Shortly before 11 a.m. Friday morning, a small fire of smoldering pine needles brought BART service to a halt between Daly City and Balboa Park. The piney fire was spotted on track
SF News Hayes Valley Farm Tree-Sitting Occupiers Arrested In Raid .@sfpd trying to remove tree sitter from Hayes Valley Farm. I'm told man is a veteran. @ktvu twitter.com/katieutehs/sta — Katie Utehs (@katieutehs) June 13, 2013 Police pinched protesters involved in the
SF News Lombard Street: A Tree Falls On Lexus Poor guy. He owns the Lexus that this 40ft tree fell on. Hear from him @8:30a @ktvu 1 WB lane on Lombard/Laguna open twitter.com/janinektvu/sta — Janine De la Vega
SF News Reminder: Don't Take A Road Flare To Your Christmas Tree Because That Would Be Stupid In front of St. Francis Memorial Hospital today, members of the S.F. Fire Department set up a safety demonstration to show local holiday decorators just how fast a well-watered pine can go
SF News Photo: Tree Falls In The Haight; Crushes Car, Muni Lines [Updated] Yikes: a big tree fell down on Haight Street between Scott and Pierce early Monday evening, resulting in downed power and Muni lines. "Muni has been rerouted in the area, there may be
SF News A Tree Grows In Noe: Friends of the Urban Forest It was Earth Day this weekend and Saturday's gorgeous weather meant spring smacked us all in the face. All over town folks fired up their hoes, rakes and hoses to start the year's
SF News Falling Tree Causes Wrecks, Man's Death On Highway 13 A multi-car crash on Highway 13 Thursday morning resulted in several car wrecks and the death of an 18-year-old Washington man. The tree crashed down onto southbound traffic near Park Boulevard in Oakland
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foraging 2.0: Grafting Fruit-Bearing Branches To Neutered City Trees A new group of "renegade arborists" is twig-bent on bringing fruit to the streets of San Francisco, the Ex reports today. Calling themselves the Guerrilla Grafters, the group co-founded by pear progenitor Tara
Arts & Entertainment Video: Turning Condemned Urban Trees Into Bicycles Jeff Diehl of Spots Unknown created this mini-documentary gem featuring Bill Holloway and Mauro Hernandez, of Masterworks Woodworking, who rescue condemned urban trees, then turn them into exquisite wooden bicycles. Diehl writes of
SF News Occupy Tree-Sitters Return To Frank Ogawa Plaza And just like that, a smattering of Occupy Oakland protesters have returned to Frank Ogawa. But this time they've taken to the trees. OakFoSho has recorded footage he shot live at the scene
SF News SF To Launch Christmas Tree-Mutilation Program Tuesday In what promises to be an unyielding display of unbridled Christmas horror, officials at City Hall will gather on the front steps on Tuesday to witness the 25th annual chipping of Christmas trees
Arts & Entertainment Adopt Living Christmas Tree Before It Gets Planted On City Streets Instead of cutting and hauling a typical Christmas tree to your living room (you murderer), why not get a living tree to decorate with care for the holidays? San Francisco's Department of the
SF News Would You Kill a Redwood for a Pinot? Aren't there enough wineries in Northern California? Do we really need another? Especially when it could mean the death of a redwood forest? As the LA Times reported in August, Codorniu’s Artesa
SF News A Tree Falls Down In Noe Valley In splat-related news, Muni Diaries has word that, during this morning's commute, a big tree fell down and knocked over "electrical wires on the outbound J line between the 22nd and 24th street
SF News SF-LA High Speed Rail Encounters Another Speed Bump Opponents of the proposed high speed rail, which would extend from the Bay Area to Los Angeles have brandished their latest weapon: a tree. It seems that Stanford’s iconic Redwood, “El Palo
SF News Woman Jumps to Death During Tenderloin Fire Early Sunday morning, a woman jumped to her death from an eighth floor apartment building at 888 O'Farrell. The scene, according to SF Appeal, was grim. The unidentified woman, while jumping from the
SF News Homeowners and Tree Advocates Battle Over New Zealand Christmas Trees You'll likely recognize this species of tree, with the pretty, fuzzy red flowers, of which there are apparently almost 5,000 across the city. It's called a New Zealand Christmas tree, or Metrosideros
SF News Tree Comes Crashing Down at Fourth and Brannan Happening just outside the Bank of America at 501 Brannan, the tree outside Fourth Street and Brannan came crashing down this afternoon in the SOMA district of San Francisco. It looks like an
SF News Twitter for a Tree You just can't top this one, Gavin Newsom. United Nations Environment Programme promises to plant a tree for every person who follows them on Twitter. Check it: "UNEPandYou: Remember, UNEP will plant one
