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:
Download the MP3 (53 MB).
- Friends of the Urban Forest: How Greening San Francisco Can Plant a Long-Lasting Bond Among Local Tree Lovers
by Amber Brooks, DatingAdvice.com, February 1, 2018 - Urban Forests Prune Health Care Costs
by Kat Friedrich, Conservation Finance Network, May 22, 2017 - Higher Education
by Lynn Rapoport, San Francisco Magazine, May 12, 2017 - Become an Urban Tree Planter for Arbor Day
by Wendy Helfenbaum, Garden Weasel blog, April 17, 2017 - San Francisco’s Nameless Giant: In Search Of The City’s Tallest Tree
by Shane Downing, Hoodline, April 2, 2017 - Cherry Bomb: A History of Our Local Bloom
by Joe Kukura, SF Weekly, March 29, 2017 - SF Has 20,000 More Trees Than Everyone Thought
by Joe Kukura, SF Weekly, March 17, 2017 - Hayes Valley ‘Living Alley’ Projects Score Nearly $300K In Fresh Funding
by Teresa Hammerl, Hoodline, February 8, 2017 - SF finalizing plan for reclaiming care of street trees
by Joshua Sabatini, San Francisco Examiner, December 19, 2016 - Program Lets San Franciscans Adopt Future Street Trees As Holiday Trees
by Fiona Lee, Hoodline, December 2, 2016 - SF to reclaim responsibility for street trees with passage of Proposition E
by Jonah Owen Lamb, San Francisco Examiner, November 9, 2016 - Vote for healthy trees and safe sidewalks in every SF neighborhood
by Laura Tam and Amandeep Jawa, San Francisco Examiner, October 18, 2016 - Prop. E: SF maintains trees and sidewalks
by Dan Flanagan, San Francisco Chronicle, October 7, 2016 - Proposition E would set aside $19 million for SF street trees
by Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, October 6, 2016 - SF could resume care of street trees
by Jonah Owen Lamb, San Francisco Examiner, October 3, 2016 - Protecting Pollinators: San Francisco Sets Sights On ‘Bee City’ Designation
by Fiona Lee, Hoodline, September 13, 2016 - Voters could shift SF’s street tree care back to city
by Joshua Sabatini, San Francisco Examiner, July 27, 2016 - San Francisco moves to take back care of street trees
by Janie Har, Associated Press, July 27, 2016 - SF may reclaim responsibility for urban forest
by Dan Flanagan, San Francisco Examiner, July 26, 2016 - For now, property owners stuck with maintaining SF street trees
by Lizzie Johnson and J.K. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, July 20, 2016 - SF supes’ plans return street tree maintenance to city
by Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, July 19, 2016 - San Francisco Sidewalk Garden Landscapes Provide Multiple Benefits
by Diana Madson, Yale Climate Connections, June 30, 2016 - The trees lining California’s roads are worth $1 billion a year
by Jaymi Heimbuch, Mother Nature Network, June 22, 2016 - Prototyping Fair To Return To Market This Fall, With More Experimental Attractions
by Brittany Hopkins, Hoodline, June 11, 2016 - Concrete Out, Gardens In: Outer Sunset Program Aims To Address Overtaxed Sewers
by Walter Thompson, Hoodline, May 27, 2016 - Most Greenified
by Marjorie Beggs, Central City Extra, May 2016 - Does Your Neighborhood Have Enough Trees?
by Stefani Cox, Big Think, April 26, 2016 - SF Supervisor Wiener proposes parcel tax to pay for tree care
by Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, April 18, 2016 - Want More and Healthier Trees in San Francisco? Let’s Invest in Our Urban Forest
by Scott Wiener, Medium, November 30, 2015 - Porticulture: Greening St. Elizabeth Church
by Alex Hobbs, Portola Planet, November 8, 2015 - Friends of the Urban Forest — working to keep San Francisco green
by Peter Rapine, Western Edition, October 1, 2015 - Neighbors speak up for trees facing ax to make room for bus line
by Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 2015
Executive Director Dan Flanagan on KPIX-TV (CBS) talking about city cutbacks in urban forestry
- Super Bowl 50 Host Committee Plants Roots in San Francisco
by Heidi Flato, Verizon News Center, June 17, 2015 - Friends Of The Urban Forest Heads To The Inner Sunset
by Caitlin Harrington, Hoodline, June 13, 2015 - Hello, my name is Lois, and I am an over-pruner (or What I learned volunteering with Friends of the Urban Forest)
by Lois Parkinson, Pruning the Pepper Tree, April 27, 2015 - San Francisco is sorely lacking in trees
by Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, March 10, 2015 - A Touch of Green: The State of Neighborhood Trees in the Tenderloin
by Marjorie Beggs, Central City Extra, March 2015 - San Francisco Street Tree Problems To Get Worse Before They Get Better
by Eric Eldon, Hoodline, January 18, 2015 - Timber!: The City Has Given Up on Its Troublesome Trees. Now They’re Your Problem.
by Joe Eskenazi, SF Weekly, December 9, 2014 - SF makes it easier to remove ficus trees
by Carolyn Tyler, KGO-TV ABC7News.com, December 1, 2014 - SF State plants fruit trees for the future
by Reid Cammack, Bay News Now, December 1, 2014 - More street trees for Bayview Hunters Point: Sign up by Jan. 21 for your tree
San Francisco Bay View, November 17, 2014 - Supervisor Wiener Wants City To Reclaim Urban Forest
by Roy McKenzie, Hoodline, November 17, 2014 - Tree Activists Warn of “Treemageddon”
by Erin Sherbert, SF Weekly, November 14, 2014 - Renewed Call For Maintenance Of City’s Urban Forest After Falling Tree Injures Pedestrian
by Hannah Albarazi, Bay City News, November 14, 2014 - Visa Announces Strategic Community Partners for a “Healthy & Vibrant” San Francisco
Business Wire, November 6, 2014 - San Francisco’s Street Trees in Poor Shape as City Shifts Upkeep to Residents
by Daphne Matziaraki, Bay Nature, October 30, 2014 - San Francisco’s Tree Maintenance Program Has Been a Death-Sentence for Some Trees
by Barbara Taylor, CBS San Francisco, October 28, 2014 - Friends of the Urban Forest
by Elizabeth Wenger, CBS SF Bay Area, October 5, 2014 - Tech teams with Urban Forest to plant trees in SF
by Jessica Kwong, San Francisco Examiner, August 17, 2014 - People, Plants, and Cities
by Niki Korth, DeepRoot, August 4, 2014 - Meet Cohort 7: Maurice
by Jenna Casey, Mission Graduates, July 23, 2014 - Locals Battle Global Climate Change, Pollution
by Laura Wenus, Mission Loc@l, June 5, 2014 - Empty lot becomes an orchard
The New Fillmore, May 30, 2014 - Urban Gardens Invade NOPA Sidewalks
by Nuala Sawyer, Hoodline, April 3, 2014 - Friends of the Urban Forest workday in the Bayview
by Jory Sandusky, Pacific Church News, March 11, 2014 - Turning Sunset yards green again
by Marisa Lagos, San Francisco Chronicle, March 10, 2014
- Go Back in Time with the Trees of 20th Street
by Ellyn Shea, The NTRG Blog, March 2, 2014 - The perfect city block (podcast, starts at 42:20)
by Alastair Gee, The Urbanist, February 20, 2014 - SF makes plan to plant more trees, take responsibility of existing ones
by Jonah Owen Lamb, San Francisco Examiner, January 14, 2014 - More Sidewalk Gardens Installed
by Andrew Dudley, Haighteration, January 13, 2014 - Organization Wants To Make San Francisco Trees City’s Responsibility Again
by Barbara Taylor, CBS San Francisco, January 8, 2014 - Plans For More Street Trees in the Works
by Courtney Quirin, Mission Local, January 7, 2014 - Speaking For The Trees In San Francisco: The Urban Forest Plan
SocketSite, December 18, 2013 - Friends of the Urban Forest
by Victor Vargas, Luxetigers, October 3, 2013 - Illegal tree topping
by Ariel Dovas, Mission Mission, August 8, 2013 - Want a Sidewalk Garden?
by Andrew Dudley, Haighteration, July 25, 2013 - SF removing sidewalk concrete, replacing it with gardens
by Andrea Koskey, San Francisco Examiner, May 12, 2013 - Cherry trees planted in S.F. Japantown
Rafu Shimpo, March 28, 2013 - S.F. Communities Welcome Urban Fruit Orchards
by Bill Picture, Bay Crossings, March 2013 - 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 - 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 -
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 -
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
