In San Francisco, One Dying Forest Waits for Action

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Sutro Forest is facing complications from invasive ivy that is choking its trees and interrupting its ecosystem. Photo by Becca Andrews/Bay Nature

By Becca Andrews, Bay Nature

Walk a few feet into the jungle on the west side of San Francisco’s Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve, and you will come to an unusual three-headed eucalyptus tree. Its single trunk is firmly rooted, and three trees sprout tenuously from the base, limbs stretching out away from the prevailing west wind and into the tangle of brown and green that dominates this 61-acre open space area.
We are standing to the left of the trunk as a group of four cyclists pause to study the Cerberus and debate their route. The apparent quirk of nature is an unexpected gift during their workout — they glance at the tree, they glance at their phones, they glance at the tree, they glance at each other, they glance at the tree.

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