A-Foresting We Will Go: A History of Trees in San Francisco (Part II)
Part II: Bleak and Barren Hills Apparently, we love trees. I never anticipated the magnitude of interest for this topic. On a Tramper’s scale, Part I: Peninsular Natives is the most visited and forwarded article at Tramps of San Francisco to date. And, because of our adoration for all things arboreal, it is essential that […]
Defining San Francisco: When Our City Became a City (Part I)
Part I: Lots Under Water are the Most Valuable Property in Town On any morning, take a tramp along Montgomery Street in the Financial District. Make your way up Second Street toward Folsom and Harrison to what remains of Rincon Hill. Along the way, take a moment … listen. Can you hear them? The residual […]
Where’s Ursus? Tracking Bear in San Francisco
Hiking anywhere along the streets of San Francisco, it may be difficult to imagine the wildness that once dominated the City’s landscape. Today, open space areas such as Glen Canyon and the Presidio tease us with hints of the previous nature of the City. But it wasn’t so long ago that residents were still at […]
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