{"id":455,"date":"2011-01-19T13:51:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T18:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2011-01-19T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T18:51:33","slug":"yerba-buena-trees-to-be-felled-today-%e2%80%93-does-anyone-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Yerba Buena Trees to Be Felled Today \u2013 Does Anyone Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger H. Rapp Brown has been on a one-blogger crusade to get someone \u2013 politicians, the media, tree-chaining greenies \u2013 to pay attention to the fact that today the great trees of Yerba Buena Island will begin to be chopped down.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all extremely frustrating, Brown said. Attention must be paid, but it isn\u2019t. Even the evergreen Guardian doesn\u2019t seem to care. He said he told some of the lads from the newbie Bay Citizen and others about the approaching slaughter over drinks at Drinks at Chris Daly\u2019s bar \u2013 the presumed center of political activism in the city \u2013 but so far only the silence of trees falling unseen in the forest.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be religion in San Francisco that chopping down a tree was an act of sacrilege and the occasion of political outrage. Why doesn\u2019t the media care enough to send a lousy helicopter over the island for film at eleven so viewers can at least watch in horror? Maybe somebody will \u2013 the chopping begins this morning and continues daily.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Brown\u2019s last plaintive blog sent out Monday \u2013 and a link to a You-Tube video he and a buddy made of the tree-killing preps:\u00a0 Video: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lb9AwpFCXnI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lb9AwpFCXnI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From: <\/strong>&#8220;h. brown&#8221; &lt;h@ludd.net&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date: <\/strong>January 18, 2011 4:18:14 PM PST<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To: <\/strong>h@ludd.net<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subject: <\/strong><strong>Unprotected Treasure Island trees to fall tomorrow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>boys and girls,<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow (Wednesday, January 19th 2011) the<\/p>\n<p>John Stewart Company contractors will begin major<\/p>\n<p>logging of the forest on Yerba Buena Island. \u00a0Here<\/p>\n<p>is the notice given residents.<\/p>\n<p>They claim they need no permits because the<\/p>\n<p>trees (many are magnificent 100 plus year old<\/p>\n<p>Monterey pine)are not native. \u00a0\u00a0In fact, they<\/p>\n<p>are clearing views for the development planned<\/p>\n<p>atop the hill which is presently sealed off from<\/p>\n<p>prying cameras such as Tony De Renzo and I took<\/p>\n<p>up there last week.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you (such as Will Kane and the Chronicle)<\/p>\n<p>could stop this if you wanted. \u00a0\u00a0Just one TV crew<\/p>\n<p>led by Dan Noyes would halt the destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Will you act?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done all that I can. \u00a0\u00a0Stewart says they need<\/p>\n<p>no City permission because technically, since the<\/p>\n<p>developer (Lennar &#8211; surprised?) hasn&#8217;t yet made a<\/p>\n<p>payment to the Navy to change official ownership<\/p>\n<p>and the Navy doesn&#8217;t give a shit what happens to<\/p>\n<p>the trees.<\/p>\n<p>You may need a helicopter to film this because the<\/p>\n<p>security around the site is heavy now.<\/p>\n<p>What a fucking travesty.<\/p>\n<p>h.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger H. Rapp Brown has been on a one-blogger crusade to get someone \u2013 politicians, the media, tree-chaining greenies \u2013 to pay attention to the fact that today the great trees of Yerba Buena Island will begin to be chopped down. It\u2019s all extremely frustrating, Brown said. Attention must be paid, but it isn\u2019t. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}