Tue August 6, 2013 Health, Science, Environment  Mt. Sutro's
eucalyptus trees raise question of how to manage urban forests
On a rare sunny morning on San Francisco’s Mt. Sutro, I went on
a hike with Rupa Bose, webmaster of an organization called Save
Sutro. Bose lives in the Forest Knolls neighborhood abutting the
eucalyptus forest. Though she’s lived in the neighborhood for
longer, she started exploring the forest a few years ago.  Bose
told me that “it was a shock to me that you could come out of a
very ordinary San Francisco neighborhood, with houses and cars
and step into this forest. It has birds and the wind in the
trees. . . It doesn't feel like being in the city at all, it’s
simply gorgeous.”  She now hikes on Mt. Sutro a few times a
week.  “I'm sorry it's not a foggy day,” she told me,  “because
you should see this place when it's acting like a cloud forest.
There's an understory of various plants, but I would say that
blackberry predominates.  “There are some vines climbing up the
trees,” she adde