IF YOU’RE WORKING URBAN PARKS in San Francisco, your chainsaw has to have a minimum bar length of three-feet.
The first two pictures are just two trees in the “Panhandle” park below Haight-Ashbury nearest Clayton, the cross street near where I am staying.
A lot of the trees in the Panhandle were planted 150 years ago, on what was then sandy dunes fortified with wagonloads of horse manure.
Most of the trees in the Panhandle are non-native species planted as an experiment to see how they would do. They seem to be doing fine.
There are lots of big trees, in profusion, all through the 1,000 acre Golden Gate Park below the Panhandle.
A lot more of these are native trees — especially enormous Monterey Cypress and California Live Oaks. That said, none of these trees existed in the park at the beginning, when it was all sand dune.
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