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A-Foresting We Will Go: A History of Trees in San Francisco (Part III)

Part III: The Land of Giants ”There is not much great timber, nor indeed wood of any kind, …” — The Annals of San Francisco, 1855 By 1850, the most significant “trees” in San Francisco could be viewed among the “forests” of the felled kind, mainly in the form of ships’ masts and other structures. […]

1 Comment by Evelyn Rose, CTO (Chief Tramping Officer) / February 17, 2014 / Posted in: Natural San Francisco

Tagged: Archibald Menzies, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, burl, California, California Historical Landmark, Chief Sequoyah, coast redwood, Coast Redwood 101, dawn redwood, de Anza, drought, el Palo Alto, Ernest Peixotto. The Petrified Forest, fire, General Sherman, George Davidson, giant sequoia, global warming, Golden Gate Bridge, goose-pen, history, Hyperion, International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Jedediah Smith Redwood State Park, Lost Monarch, Malaspina, Mediterranean climate, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Montgomery Woods State Natural Preserve, Muir Woods National Monument, Nature's clone, Northern California, Padre Juan Crespi, Padre Pedro Font, Portola, Redwood National Park, San Francisco, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Stephen Endlicher, tannic acid, Thaddeus Haenke, Transbay Transit Center, U.S. Endangered Species Act

Defining San Francisco: How Our City Became a City (Part III)

Part III: A Consolidated Effort Exploring the origins of the boundaries of our City as they hemmed and hawed over the last 165 odd-years has been quite an unexpected expedition (see Part I and Part II of Defining San Francisco). Novelesque, convoluted, and a much longer row to hoe than we had ever imagined, our hobnailed […]

No Comments by Evelyn Rose, CTO (Chief Tramping Officer) / August 12, 2012 / Posted in: Streets of San Francisco

Defining San Francisco: How Our City Became a City (Part II)

Part II: The Golden Era of San Francisco In Part 1 of Defining San Francisco: How Our City Became a City, we saw how entrepreneurial spirit and a forward-looking vision transformed the tiny hamlet of Yerba Buena into the growing Town of San Francisco. In a daydreaming exercise, it was possible to imagine the sleepy […]

3 Comments by Evelyn Rose, CTO (Chief Tramping Officer) / August 12, 2012 / Posted in: Streets of San Francisco

Tagged: Boundaries, California, City Limits, Gold Rush, Golden Rock, history, Pueblo, Red Rock, San Francisco, San Francisco City Charter, Selim Woodworth, T.M. Leavenworth, U.S. Public Land Commission, Vallejo Line

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