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Where’s Ursus? Tracking Bear in San Francisco
This ferocious-looking California grizzly, modeled after a captive bear named Monarch, became the symbol for the recovery of San Francisco following the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906. Personal...
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The Auriferous City: Eureka Moments in San Francisco
It’s number 79 on the Periodic Table of the Elements. Such an inauspicious number for the mineral that continues to drive the masses on a never-ending search for perpetual wealth and happiness....
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A-Foresting We Will Go: A History of Trees in San Francisco
Part I: Peninsular Natives An excerpt of this post is simultaneously published in the Redwood...
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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...
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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...
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