[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "How the Presidio [of San Francisco, CA] entwines nature, urban ecology"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

How the Presidio entwines nature, urban ecology

By John King
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
January 30, 2015

The wonder of the Presidio of San Francisco is that it blurs the line  
between city and nature to the point where you can’t pull the two apart.

Those loud birds perched atop a tree near Lovers' Lane? They’re the  
same parrots that gravitate to Telegraph Hill. The thicket of shrubs  
and trees where a creek tumbles through Thompson Reach toward the  
bay? A decade ago it was in a pipe below hazardous waste. And Crissy  
Field with its bucolic marsh along the bay?

"It was back-of-house space: parked cars and military vehicles," said  
Michael Boland, chief planner for the Presidio Trust, which manages  
nearly all of the 1,491-acre enclave at the foot of the Golden Gate  
Bridge. "An Army post is a messy business."

Boland was speaking at "Bridging the Nature-Culture Divide: Saving  
Nature in a Humanized World," a conference held Friday at the  
Presidio's Officers Club. It was the third gathering on the nature- 
culture topic organized by the Washington, D.C.-based Cultural  
Landscape Foundation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/place/article/How-the-Presidio- 
entwines-nature-urban-ecology-6043898.php?cmpid=prem2

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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