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Understanding the eucalyptus forest – Professor Joe R. McBride | Death of a Million Trees
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Death of a Million Trees. Saving trees from needless destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. Understanding the eucalyptus forest – Professor Joe R. McBride. August 22, 2014. This article has been republished from the website of Save Mount Sutro Forest. Dr Joe McBride of UC Berkeley spoke at the Commonwealth Club in April 2014 as part of the series. 8220;The Science of Conservation and Biodiversity in the 21st Century. 8221; His main message:. As do most ‘native’ habitats. Dr McBride’s wide-rangi...
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Hills Conservation Network files suit to stop FEMA grants in East Bay Hills | Death of a Million Trees
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Death of a Million Trees. Saving trees from needless destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hills Conservation Network files suit to stop FEMA grants in East Bay Hills. March 11, 2015. Tags: City of Oakland. East Bay Regional Park District. Ten years after UC Berkeley, City of Oakland, and East Bay Regional Park District applied for FEMA grants to fund the destruction of hundreds of thousands of non-native trees on 1,000 acres of public open space, FEMA announced its final decision. Http:/ www.hi...
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Herbicides | Death of a Million Trees
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Death of a Million Trees. Saving trees from needless destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. Herbicides: The Tools of the Trade. We believe it is true that many non-native plants and trees cannot be eradicated without the use of herbicides. The use of herbicides in projects called restorations strikes us as ironic. In what sense is the land restored which has been doused with herbicides? How does a project that is dependent upon herbicides manage to bill itself as being beneficial to the environment?
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Deforestation | Death of a Million Trees
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Death of a Million Trees. Saving trees from needless destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. And we aren’t any less committed to keeping our water free of poisons such as herbicides. Than we were after we read A Silent Spring. In the 1960s. Because the effects of climate change and herbicides are slow and less visible than a burning river or murky air, the public is not giving them the attention they deserve. The Gallup Poll. Although there is a range of opinions about the causes of climate change, we...
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Global increases in biodiversity resulting from new species | Death of a Million Trees
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Death of a Million Trees. Saving trees from needless destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. Global increases in biodiversity resulting from new species. August 15, 2014. Great horned owl in eucalyptus. Courtesy urbanwildness.org. However, despite the conventional wisdom that the introduction of new species of plants to islands would result in extinction of their predecessors, there is no evidence that this is indeed the case with introduced plants. In 2008, Dov Sax and Steven Gaines published a s...
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FIRE!!! The Cover Story | Death of a Million Trees
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Death of a Million Trees. Saving trees from needless destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. Native plant advocates have used many different arguments to justify the destruction of non-native trees (eucalypts are the primary target) and we will examine them all in A Million Trees. After the 2007 fire on Broadway Terrace in which no eucalypts burned. As FEMA notes in its analysis of that fire. The fire started in dry grass. Eucalyptus contributed more fuel to the fire than they normally do. University ...
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More public comments on FEMA projects in the East Bay Hills | Death of a Million Trees
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Death of a Million Trees. Saving trees from needless destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. More public comments on FEMA projects in the East Bay Hills. July 24, 2015. Tags: FEMA grant East Bay Hills. We are publishing a few more of our favorite public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the FEMA projects in the East Bay Hills. Which will destroy nearly a half-million trees if implemented as presently described. Visit the HCN website HERE. To make a contribution. Absolutely do no...
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The Sierra Club must STOP advocating for deforestation and pesticide use in San Francisco Bay Area | Death of a Million Trees
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Death of a Million Trees. Saving trees from needless destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Sierra Club must STOP advocating for deforestation and pesticide use in San Francisco Bay Area. August 9, 2015. Monarch butterflies over-winter in California’s eucalyptus groves. Which demands the destruction of 100% of all non-native trees (eucalyptus, Monterey pine, acacia). This is an on-line petition which can be signed HERE. There will be a demonstration. This article is about the Sierra Club’s public...
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Wildlife | Death of a Million Trees
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Death of a Million Trees. Saving trees from needless destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. Native plant advocates claim that native wildlife benefits from native plant restorations. There is an intuitive logic that native animals require native plants. After all, didn’t they evolve together? Monachs in eucalyptus, Pacific Grove Museum. Professor Shapiro also speculates that other insects have adapted to non-native plants as well. Bee in cotoneaster, Albany Bulb. Researchers at UC Davis surveyed over...
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Invertebrates such as insects are plentiful in the eucalyptus forest | Death of a Million Trees
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Death of a Million Trees. Saving trees from needless destruction in the San Francisco Bay Area. Invertebrates such as insects are plentiful in the eucalyptus forest. November 22, 2013. Tags: California Invasive Plant Council. Native plant advocates frequently claim that the eucalyptus forest is a biological desert. We find no evidence to support that claim. We are as likely to see a diverse understory in the eucalyptus forest. Loss of native plant forage and migratory disruptions may have greater long-te...
