Josiah & Crew strip all the ivy choking out a beautiful buckeye tree on Yerba Buena Island. Lots of ground ivy is plucked like spaghetti in the process. This all serves to give the buckeye more room to breath and take in nutrients from the soil.

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Take a look at some Franciscan native plants we planted in a little known and seldom seen corner of San Francisco at Parkview Commons Apartments. We have been enjoying lots of new birds and pollinators since the arrival of these plants! https://www.facebook.com/JosiahClarkNaturalist

In this quick video we weed out some invasive Ehrharta erecta to make space for the native Creeping Wild Rye grass! https://www.facebook.com/JosiahClarkNaturalist

Habitat Potential is so lucky to work on Yerba Buena Island, a site overlooking the Bay Area that's ripe with ecological opportunities and challenges. In this first video of our Yerba Buena Island series, we work on Nimitz Slope, a hillside nested beneath the bay bridge, where we work to remove invasive plants and reestablish native plants such as California Poppy and Coast Aster. https://www.facebook.com/JosiahClarkNaturalist

Greg Gaar is a huge inspiration for Bay Area environmentalists! He championed native plants, the key to maintaining local fauna, back in the 80's, at a time when few people understood their importance. He's done so much to champion open San Francisco spaces, starting in 1977 with the preservation of Tank Hill. I feel so lucky I got to spend some time with him at his nursery. Shot, edited, and scored by Ray Mullin. https://www.facebook.com/JosiahClarkNaturalist

Josiah and Crew take a look at the burned-out aftermath of a fire on Yerba Buena Island's Oak Woodlands. https://www.facebook.com/JosiahClarkNaturalist