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Tree Sap – Why You Shouldn’t Park Your Car In or Near Golden Gate Park
TweetYou can see the culprit reflected in this car’s windshield – it’s a sap-filled Eucalyptus globulus (aka Tasmanian Blue Gum, Southern Blue Gum or Blue Gum Eucalyptus) just waiting to rain down on...
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The Youngest Raptor in the Panhandle Yearns for Craig Newmark’s Backyard
TweetThis hungry juvenile hawk (red-tailed? red-shouldered? red-something anyway) perched on a Eucalyptus tree in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle has stopped screeching for its parents’ food and started...
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Gaia Strikes Back! Subaru Clobbered by Giant Tree Branch in Golden Gate Park
TweetThis is not how you want to find your ride (a Subaru Forester believe it or not - chop chop! That’s what foresters do, right, chop down trees?) after you park right next to a giant aging Blue Gum...
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The Coolest Vantage Point in San Francisco and Why You Should Never Ever Go...
TweetNot even sure what to call this ex-military observation tower as I am unaware of its name. But I’ll tell you, the views from up there are terrific and with none of those pesky trees in the way....
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The Sad End to the Super Sweet Military Observation Tower High in the Presidio
TweetNow back in the day, you could shimmy over a nine-foot cyclone fence and then just walk up the staircase to the top of this observation tower the U.S. Army used to operate in the Presidio. It was...
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The Shutdown, Brokedown Military Observation Tower of the Presidio Has...
TweetJust discovered the Great Military Observation Tower of the Presidio is no more. It jutted above the eucaluptus so high, they painted it #17875 White and #12197 Aviation Orange, just like Sutro...
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If a Tree Falls in Golden Gate Park, What are the Odds It Will Land on Some...
TweetWell, maybe not a tree, but how about a big old branch of a eucalyptus [See Comments] cypress(?) tree what’s stood in the Golden Gate Park for a century or so? The branch comes down and hits this...
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Wow, the Trees of Golden Gate Park Sure Could Use a Lorax Right About Now –...
TweetCheck out these recent shots from Nature’s Lantern. “Freshly cut trees being stacked with more processed chopped trees in piles in the area behind Elk Glen Lake.” Wow. The bodies are being...
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Huge Multi-Ton Blue Gum Eucalyptus Tree Branch Falls in the Panhandle...
TweetThis aint no bush, it’s part of a huge tree branch what just came crashing down in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle this AM. See? It fell near Fell Street. These Eucs are environmental weeds* don’t...
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Our Changing Presidio: A Military Observation Tower Located Just North of the...
TweetFirst, it was all like this: Get all the deets here. You see I’m six-foot-one and a ton of fun, so things were a bit wobbly on the staircase going up, back in the day. Empty beer cans are what...
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The Golden Gate Park Panhandle, Where Peruvian Parrots Fly About Tasmanian...
TweetYou know the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, from Peru, right? As seen from the Filbert Steps, 94133 on Telegraph Hill more than a decade ago: And of course, you know our eucalyptus trees, from...
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Forty-Six Wild Cherry-Masked Conure Parakeet Parrot Birds Commuting Home to...
TweetFor some reason dese boids live in Frisco’s northeast but then commute southwest for feeding on a daily basis. So in the morning, you see them over the Western Addition going southwest and then in...
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Giant Eucalyptus Attacks Pickup Truck, Wins – Someday, Somebody Will Get...
TweetOur RPD’s way of taking care of trees appears to be to wait for them to fail and then haul off whatever hits the ground. IDK, do Blue Gum Eucalyptus really belong here on the somewhat sandy...
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Tree Mail: Major Cell Phone Service Providers Use a Giant Eucalyptus as a...
Tweet So our downsized and somewhat defunned Bay to Breakers 2017 is a coming this weekend so that means that Frisco’s annual street party will tax the bandwidth of Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and...
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Heartless DPT: Can You Put a Note on Your Car to Avoid an SFMTA MUNI DPT...
TweetAnd I’ll tell you why. It’s cause then everybody would do it and things would get out of hand. OTOH, if you are out there when they come around, trying to do a jump start or something, I think...
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A Mystery Resolved – Or, How the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Reverse...
TweetFor some reason dese boids live in Frisco’s northeast but then commute southwest on a daily basis. So in the morning, you see them over the Western Addition going southwest and then in the...
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BOOM! An Unkempt Eucalyptus Tree vs. a Mercedes Benz and a Volvo in the...
TweetNothing immediately obvious: There’s this note from SFGov… But you know, looks normal: Except for this: And this: From this, high above Golden Gate Park: Myself, I don’t know why we have euc trees...
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71 Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Over the 94117 – The Most I’ve Ever Seen –...
TweetThink my previous personal best was 46, over J-Town. I counted 71 the other day. It was quite a flock over the Panhandle: 2005, Over Telegraph Hill:
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Park and Wreck: RPD Totals Audi with Its Laissez Faire Approach to Tree...
TweetIDK man, RPD’s tree branches can fall on your noggin at pretty much any time. Oh well. As seen on Fell near Shrader: And IDK how much small, 15 year old Audi’s are worth but it can’t be that much....
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Frisco’s Tallest Trees Have Gotta Be Located in Our INTERIOR GREENBELT –...
TweetRated five stars, Baby. And here’s the official website from RPD.
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