About in the middle of the city where you see the green hexagon. The right map is a closeup of the mount sitro open reserve just to the left of the ucsf campus there. The open space reserve is over 60 acres and on those 60 acres we have about 5. 5 miles of Public Access trails. Some other statistics ill mention real quickly, theres about 900 feet of elevation gain across this property. Those are beautiful trails in those trees and giving great views. We also have over 10,000 living trees in the reserve. We also have between 200 and 300 residents that live in the housing facility up at the top top of the mountain. The history is the mayor in 1885 he donated 13 acres to create the ucsf campus there. In 1953, decades later, ucsf purchased 90 additional acres, including the area that is now the open space reserve on mountain sutro. And in 1976, the uc regions designated that as permanent open space, designating this the mount sutro open space reserve. That reserve is maintained and the trees on it and our priorities are multiple. First off, we want to ensure of course the safety of people and structures in and around the open space reserve, which includes our own students, faculty, patients, whatnot, the neighbors also. We want to maintain the reserve as permanent open space, as designated by the regions back in 1976, and that means including Public Access to the 5. 5 miles of trails in it, improving the ecosystem, the biodiversity within the open space reserve. So, for example, since 2008 by ucsf policy, we have allowed no use of any herbicides in the open space reserve and we do no tree work during mating season. We also want to submit to the transparency and the Community Planning principles that were used in developing and finalizing in 2018 the open space reserves official Management Plan. That open process and review involved a technically Advisory Committee of experts that met several times, community meetings, tours of the trails, and whatnot. One of the groups that we worked closely with that we heard earlier today are sutro stewards. They are a Nonprofit Community organization that helps maintain trails and restore habitat. In 2016 they provided 5,000 person hours and that has been maintained at the same level. They are a native planting garden at the top. There is many events that they hold as well as the ongoing maintenance work. So ucsf does do quite a bit of fire hazard mitigation. We have ongoing projects all the time, removing ongoing projects and duff. We trim leaves and remove these ladder fuels, trip and control the canopy itself. And clearing the avenue a minimum of three times a year because of the presence of power lines. We have special projects where we created a buffer zone between the preserve and buffer areas. We were focused on reducing the tree canopy to prevent canopy fire emission. They like the blackberry bush as much as i like the blackberries which is great, because it helps with maintaining that vegetative matter under the trees. In 2019, the goats have come back to do more 4 acres. Were doing fire abatement and nearby structures and planned for this year, in fact, coming up in the next few weeks, a picture of what the trees look like under nike road, named after the missile site and not the shoes. Thats planned for this year. I want to point out many resources that we have that go into a lot of detail around the open space reserve and the registration Management Plan for it. Theyre all located on our website. You can find the vegetation Management Plan itself there. You can find an f. A. Q. Document about it to summarize it. We have posted there the Environmental Impact report that was done through that open community process. Information about the public process thats been used, linked to the sutro stewards and other organizations that are helping us with this whole effort, calendar of events, trail maps and whatnot. I hope that provides an overview of what the space is and how ucsf is managing it. Im happy to take any questions. Just a quick question. Did you work with the San FranciscoFire Department in terms of having them go in there to look at things that you might have overlooked . I will say my office coordinates with the San FranciscoFire Department. We also have station 20 up on clarendon and olympia. We have oriented them to the campus and the science going on. There is more work that we can do around wildfire. So youre saying you would be open to having the fire martial go in there into the area yes, and we have our own campus fire martial two and the two of them know each other very well. Happy to collaborated in that way. Not to jump into a fraught topic, but i have sort of lost track how the city and others are dealing with the balancing of native versus nonnative plants and what to do with the eucalyptus. Now i think the plantings that were doing are a blend of 75 eucalyptus and 25 native species. If you want to correct me, you can. I am the Ground Program manager for ucsf and i am the manager for basically the project manager for mount sutro. So, yes, were removing dead and dying trees. We have a lot of dead trees. Part of the plan is to plant more trees. We mix it up with nonnative trees, with different types of trees, because of the plan thats built by the community. Thats what 50 of the community wanted this. Parts of all those trees are native trees that we incorporated in the plan. At the same time you saw the picture of the blackberry and things like that. We were trying to remove all the blackberry. There is a lot of fuel load in it, but the goal is to actually remove that normative blackberry permanently and reintroduce mobile diversity to our program and our plan. Hi, i was the coordinator for the Management Plan. I want to say a couple things about our approach when we developed the plan. One was we said at the time we had 90 eucalyptus and we needed more biodiversity to improve the whole ecosystem. But at the same time we had a lot of people in the community who loved eucalyptus. What we said is we would preserve the historic eucalyptus stance. Sop at the time it was 50 eucalyptus and then 50 native trees to increase the biodiversity. Thank you. Okay. So just really quickly we feel good. Is there another question you had . Im just wondering i guess i had this stereo type of view not being native. In a dry climate, they really do dry out. When be they catch on fire that they actually explode . The eucalyptus trees in particular, yeah, i think theyre generally recognized as a greater hazard than the nonnatives. Yeah, i think maybe the fire martial will really talk about th th this, they dont explode, but they have they can release their seeds in a foul way during fire and they produce a lot of debris. Were reintroducing some eucalyptus species that dont have that amount of debris that the bluegum has right now. I think the glu bluegum is full of debrises. In my mind, it seems something to think about. I guess i asked the question why are we even planning 50 eucalyptus. Why dont we just plant all the new tries to be more native. You may not have the answer. Yes, i am the campus fire martial. Understanding how Vegetation Management works in a wildland urban interface, theres a lot that goes into it, but from the basis we really do try to protect the wildland interface from sfrures and people and roads and things like that. Nowhere will they tell you remove all the vegetation. Its Vegetation Management. Part of that is respecting the biodiversity aspect of it and part of it is saying where the fire starts and where it expands. Taking care of the items that mr. Freeberg brought up about removing the dead materials on the bottom, clearing the duff, controlling the latter fuels and fitting out those canopcanopies thats what we can do. I believe ucsf is following those same practices and trying to respect that. I think its hard to see when folkses like yourself and myself have been through Oakland Berkeley hills fire with that same interface where we saw 50 eucalyptus trees blowing up. Really what that is is where the fire storm starts taking on its own environment and velocity and had spreading, thats what were trying to do is thin that out, where you cant build up that power and force, especially around houses and streets. Its not specific to native versus nonnative. Its about the overall forest or Vegetation Management. Thank you for the explanation. Thank you very much for your presentation. Im going to try to move this along. Thank you for coming here. Next up i would like to ask the trust. I dont have a presentation, but i have a short statement. I am the forest manager of the trust. The presidio in San Francisco is unique. Its a pork and a former military post which now combines opportunity for the public to explore history, culture, and nature in a densely populated area. The interior of the park is managed by the trust. This is primarily the inferior of the park. There is also the National Park service and the ggnra which manages the remainder of the presidio. The open space of the presidio is a mixture of a natural and Historic Landscapes bordered by homes. Minimizing the threat of wildfires to the presidio, its visitors to the park and the adjacent community is of great concern to the trust. The highvalue trusts increase the value. There was recently a Risk Assessment and a wildfire Management Plan. It was found that the overall level of wildfire risk throughout the park is low. Thats the good news. Both as a result of concentrated Vegetation Program which has been implemented over the past 10 to 20 years since the park was created and because of the cool, moist climate found in the presidio throughout much of the year. Standard trees have been thereined, lower branches have been pruned. Grasses have been mowed and or grazed as we heard in the last presentation. There are specific locations throughout the park where forests have been restored resulting in vegetation which are not as vulnerable to ignition. We have reforested 40 acres throughout the park and many more acres of Natural Lands throughout the park. I dont believe there is a historical record to my knowledge of fires here and to the knowledge of people who have worked in the past. During our recent Risk Assessment we modelled the fire activitied and the fire throughout the park based on many weather scenarios. This took into account all the different vegetation types mapped. Our model wildfires are expected to luren with low intensity even under the weather conditions in the park over the past years including the most recent drought years. The fires are not likely to travel far beyond roads, parking lots, grasses, or lawns. Any embers that would be produced would fall into locations unburnable or in locations that could be extinguished easily with tools. This is a result of our consultant putting all the information into our fire models and this is information gleaned from the fire assessment. The some of the following actions will help to reduce the hazard and risks to the park and our surrounding areas. We continue an Ongoing Program to create and maintain defensive space around structures in the park. We heard some of that from the previous presentation as well about Defensible Space and the recommendations. We will conduct continue to conduct training on wildfire intervention and protection concepts and weve had some meetings in the past year about wildfire bringing in some of their neighborhoods. Weve conducted prevention programs. We have incorporated messages about the past dry spell. We do conduct annual fire extinguisher training and we conduct annual fire inspections throughout the presidio. We inspect all fire detection system and inspection all fire systems. We dont have a fire martial, but we do have an Emergency Services director and interfaces with the San FranciscoFire Department. Some additional examples, we recently conducted Defensible Spaces, and were continuing to manage that according to the recommendations. The public should see some of those reactions. There is a tree crew that performs all of our tree crew and maintenance in the park which i manage. We are currently thinning out some of our eucalyptus stands and thinning out the tree health and vigour to help with the fires. Many of these are in addition to ucsf and we have looked at their Management Plan and taken their best practices and are applying them to our park as well. In the past year we have trimmed and pruned along the utility lines and corridors. We own all of our own infrastructure. Were responsible for maintaining our infrastructure. We have had contractors come out this past year and prune all of our line miles throughout the park. Weve seen positive results just in this year alone. There was a question about how we officer face with the San Francisco park. The Presidio Trust has a construction for Fire Response Services with the Fire Department. This includes Fire Response Services with the department itself. The Response Time is fir from five to seven minutes, ten minutes maximum in the park. On an annual basis the trust provides information to the park on fire response. So they are familiarized with the layout of the parks and the infrastructure in the Presidio Park itself. That is a brief overview in the trust and if there are any questions, i would be happy to answer some of those. How did you do this assessment, did you hire a consultant and how did the assessment go down . I was hired into this position roughly two years ago. Im relatively new to the trust. Some of you may know the previous forester, peter erlich, he was there for many years. There was a change in my position and my superiors position at the same time. There was work on the aftermath on the fire in the Berkeley Hills that was mentioned earlier. She put together some of the plans after that fire for uc berkeley. So we brought her on board and gave recommendations what to do and what were not doing well enough and where to go from here. We initially had a vegetation Management Plan that was designed and approved back in the 2000s when the park was initiated. That has some language about Fire Management how to manage for fires in the park, but our new plan goes into much more detail. Looking at our current weather conditions and including in implementing those spatial measures as well. We are developing and starting that program already, but its going to take time for us to move throughout the entire park before we can say the entire park has met those requirements by cal fire. How much has that cost . This Management Plan is roughly 25,000 to get an assessment and a Management Plan in hand. Do you guys have a relationship with the San Francisco fire martial or are you on your own . No, we do. Our Emergency Services director couldnt get it today, but he is routinely in contact with the personnel over at the Fire Department. Thanks. Thank you for your presentation and keep up the good work. It sounds like youre really managing the area the way it should be managed. Thank you. Were trying our best. The first city park is rec and park operations. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am the director of operations and eric is pulling up our presentation here. Weve got a couple of things i want to run through you once up on the screen. We want to describe how our procedures are largely focused on our over 1,000 acres for open space. How theyre operationalized in the field and how they are consistent with our park values on Natural Resource preservation that makes it an alignment with the previous alignment on biodiversity. I will cover a couple of our resources and challenges in doing these things. We dont have it on the screen [ overlapping speakers ] the first chart i want to pull up here, this is a i know that the Fire Department is going to show you this map as well. This is the San Francisco department of Emergency Management and cal fire, fire hazard severity zone map. You can see that San Francisco is depicted there and as per cal fire criteria, San Francisco has a low wildfire risk and some areas of fire risk, but no moderate or extreme. On the righthand side for comparison weve inserted the sonoma county, the same map for them where the horrific kinkaid fire was. You can see their circumstances are markedly different. I only put those up for context since we were talking about wildfire, the circumstances very wildly throughout the state and there is a point of comparison in how the city compares to the most where the most recent wildfire in california just occurred. For us, our best practices, first and foremost, we consult and stay aligned with the San Francisco