UCSF Forest Remediation Plan
Forester Ray Morit explains University's proposed plan
I went on the walking tour today that University of California at San Francisco conducted to solicit community feedback about its plan to make its forested lands less prone to wildfire. The University had an actual Forester conduct the tour, and I feel I learned a lot. There were about 20 people there including the representatives from UC.
The information I was most surprised to learn is that when trees are cut down they will usually grow back if left unchecked. The regrowth can be stopped by applying a herbicide. We were told the herbicide can be applied with a paint brush or roller directly to the cut stump, and that only a cup of herbicide is enough to kill a stump about two feet across, which would be a large tree for this relatively young forest.
Here is a short video clip that I shot. It shows an example area on UCSF’s property that is already in the shape they plan to get the rest of their property in using in part the FEMA grant money they are applying to the United States Federal Government for. What I was impressed with is how good this area looks, and how safe it appears to me.
This clip is in true 1980 x 1020 high definition, and if you click on the Vimeo logo on the video above, you will be taken to Vimeo.com, which handles the video display on this blog. In the lower right corner of the Vimeo page that displays this video, there is a link where you can download the full resolution HD file, which is 316 megabytes. If you save it on your computer, you can just click on the file and watch the full HD version, which shows much more detail than the 1280 x 768 version you see here on this blog page. In any event, be sure to watch this video full screen, which you can enter by clicking the icon that looks sort of like a capital X in the lower right corner of the video player window.
