FUF in the News

David Freudberg, host of “Humankind”, a public radio series produced in Boston and distributed worldwide by NPR, created a terrific half-hour story about FUF’s work, including interviews with people who are deeply involved:

Executive Director Dan Flanagan on KPIX-TV (CBS) talking about city cutbacks in urban forestry

• 200 Fruit Trees Planted This Past Weekend in SF
  by AsianWeek Staff, AsianWeek, January 29, 2013
• Neighbors Welcome a Calmer, Greener Bryant Street Near Cesar Chavez
  by Aaron Bialick, Streetsblog San Francisco, January 15, 2013
• Tree planting with Friends of the Urban Forest
  by Kate Sherwood, Thomas Edison Charter Academy Blog, December 18, 2012
• Financing the Urban Forest
  by Laura Tam, SPUR Blog, November 6, 2012
• Building a Greener San Francisco with Friends of the Urban Forest
  by Shoua Thao, Varsity Technologies Blog, October 30, 2012
• The Giving State: Urban Forest
  by Rigoberto Hernandez, KQED Radio — The California Report, October 23, 2012
• San Francisco’s Urban Orchards Program
  by San Francisco Department of the Environment, October 15, 2012
• NerdWallet’s Top 4 Urban Forest Non-Profits in California
  by johnm, NerdWallet, July 30, 2012
• Urban Forest Plan
  by San Francisco Planning Department, July 3, 2012
• Street Tree Census
  by San Francisco Planning Department, June 29, 2012
• Street Science: The Mission’s Trees
  by Molly Roy, Mission Loc@l, June 20, 2012
• San Fran Turns Transit Tickets into Trees
  by Alexis Petru, Earth911.com, May 10, 2012
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  Volunteers celebrate a freshly-planted street tree in SOMA, January 2011

  Friends of Urban Forest helps green the Excelsior
  by John Coté, San Francisco Chronicle, March 25, 2012

• A Tree in Your Sidewalk? You Can Grow That!
  by Gordon Matassa, Gordon’s Gardens, March 4, 2012
• S.F. begins turning tree care over to residents
  by John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, January 16, 2012
• New Approaches Mean New Opportunities
  by Jack Petree, TimberWest Magazine, November/December 2011
• Program Offers Christmas Trees That’ll End Up Planted On SF Streets
  by Dan McMenamin, SF Appeal, December 2, 2011
• Graffiti Taggers Turn to Trees, With Possibly Harmful Effects
  by Scott James, The Bay Citizen, November 17, 2011
• SF Friends of the Urban Forest’s 30 Year Old Trees
  by Leda Marritz, DeepRoot, October 17, 2011
• An Arborist’s View of the Mission
  by John C. Osborn, Mission Loc@l, September 18, 2011
• Urban foresters greening Hayes Valley and beyond
  by Lauren Daley, Hayes Valley Voice, April 20, 2011
• How Trees Pay Us Back
  by Jim Chatfield, Lawn & Landscape, March 17, 2011
• A Tree Grows in the Mission… walking tour of historic Mission District’s Shotwell Street
  by Coop de Ville, SFhotlist, February 18, 2011
• Avatar Home Tree Initiative Plants Over 1 Million!
  by Marsha Johnston, Earth Day Network, January 20, 2011
• Friends of the Urban Forest helps keep SF green and clean
  by Lindsay Adams, The Western Edition, December 30, 2010
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  Volunteers plant Flowering Cherry Trees in Japantown, December 4, 2010. Photo by Kara Okamoto.

  New cherry trees honor 150-year U.S.-Japanese bond
  by Marisa Lagos, San Francisco Chronicle, December 5, 2010

• Friends of the Urban Forest: The Green Christmas tree alternative
  by Chris Bay, Examiner.com Los Angeles, November 27, 2010
• Bayview neighborhood schools get trees
  by Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, November 7, 2010
• One Million Trees
  by Alison Wheatley, Voices For Our Planet, August 23, 2010
• Urban Reforestation: Arbor Activism for City Folk
  by Abigail Wick, Elephant Journal, August 15, 2010
• Tiffany Street Neighbors Make a Party of Ripping Up Concrete
  by Matthew Roth, Streetsblog San Francisco, July 19, 2010
• A Census for the Trees
  by Douglas Gorney, The Atlantic, June 2, 2010
• An Earth Day ‘Natural:’ San Francisco’s Tree Census
  by Gretchen Weber, KQED Climate Watch, April 22, 2010
• Couple plant trees for exercise, environment
  by Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 2010
• One man’s volunteer effort to plant trees in San Francisco
  by Paul Van Slambrouck, The Christian Science Monitor, April 5, 2010
• Plant a tree, build a community in S.F.
  by Matthai Kuruvila, San Francisco Chronicle, February 21, 2010
• Christmas trees that keep giving
  by Paul Kilduff, San Francisco Chronicle, November 29, 2009
• Doug Wildman from Friends of the Urban Forest talks with us about urban trees.
  Sierra Club Radio, October 31, 2009 (audio)
• San Francisco Wants Green Christmas Trees
  by Renee Montagne, National Public Radio, December 1, 2008
• Helping urban trees to thrive
  by Ron Sullivan and Joe Eaton, San Francisco Chronicle, February 29, 2008
• S.F. Garden Club brings greenery to neighborhoods
  by Hazel White, San Francisco Chronicle, December 15, 2007
• Turn Christmas trees into street trees – an evergreen solution
  by Ron Sullivan and Joe Eaton, San Francisco Chronicle, December 5, 2007
• The Dirt: It’s tough to see urban forest with so few trees
  by Ron Sullivan and Joe Eaton, San Francisco Chronicle, September 26, 2007
• Urban Forest 2.0
  by Sheraz Sadiq, QUEST Northern California, September 4, 2007
• Trees make even wallets green
  by Robert Hollis, San Francisco Chronicle, December 24, 2006
• How to Have a Green Christmas
  by Maryanne Murray Buechner, Time, December 11, 2006
• Group brings city under the canopy
  by Patricia Yollin, San Francisco Chronicle, November 19, 2006
• If we’re so green, why is San Francisco’s treescape so lame?
  by Gregory Dicum, San Francisco Chronicle, June 14, 2006
• Planting the Seeds for Better Property Value
  by Suzanne Gavin (Whelan), San Francisco Apartment Association, May 2006
• Go Green — Plant an Urban Tree
  by Delfin Vigil, San Francisco Chronicle, March 12, 2006
• A tree grows in the city
  by Tomás Ramírez, San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, 2005
• Urban Foresters Put Down Roots in S.F.
  by Maitland Zane, San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 1996