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"Nature lovers unite to save trees and sod fields in S.F. park: ‘This is the last stand’
Keep Crocker Real member Susan Mullaney wraps a yellow ribbon around a tree at Crocker Amazon Playground in San Francisco on Sunday to protest plans to replace natural vegetation with synthetic turf when a section of the park is converted into baseball fields.
The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, which is partnering with the San Francisco Giants Community Fund on the $45 million renovation, has promised to replant every tree that has to be removed with two trees, but that doesn’t appease the opposition. Neither does the assurance that the new artificial turf will have infill of cork and sand, not the recycled rubber product that is often used to make the blades perform like natural grass.
Whatever surface is used, unless the fields are planted in natural grass, it will be of no use to the birds and insects that live in the grass field soon to be torn up or in the surrounding trees soon to be sawed down.
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Susan Mullaney gave up her Sunday morning to drive from her home in San Francisco’s Sunset District to the Crocker-Amazon District, just to tie a yellow ribbon ’round an old pine tree. A neighborhood dog walker stopped to ask what she was doing, and after the ensuing conversation the neighbor suddenly knew about the city plan to remove mature trees and sod fields in favor of synthetic turf at Crocker Amazon Playground.
'I’m outraged that the city would inflict plastic on this park,' said Mullaney, ignoring the fact that a soccer match was being played on artificial turf on the other side of the promenade where she was standing. 'The yellow ribbon makes it pop and brings attention. People in this neighborhood don’t know that the city plans to cut down 128 trees.'
Mullaney is a member of Keep Crocker Real, which is literally a grassroots organization formed to protest the plan to rip out the grass and install 20 acres of synthetic turf to create five new diamonds. A sixth field will be grass. The trees lining the pedestrian promenade that bisects the complex will have to be removed to create infrastructure and drainage. There will also be new restrooms, a dog play area, picnic tables, batting cages and lighting for the ballfields."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/crocker-amazon-playground-trees-21957504.php
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