Every year the Golden Gate Park Preservation Alliance walks sections of Golden Gate Park and reports on various concerts. The goal is to promote preservation of the park landscape and raise awareness of the importance of protecting the park vegetation. Also, GGPPA is concerned about the impact that the concerts have on all park-goers, who lose use of their park and enjoyment of the parkland during not only the concert but also the set up and take down for these major events.
2. TREES NEED THEIR ROOTS –
TREES CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT ROOTS.
TREES BREATHE THROUGH THEIR ROOTS and
ABSORB NUTRITION THROUGH THEIR ROOTS.
TREES CANNOT THRIVE IF THEIR ROOTS ARE
CONTINUALLY DAMAGED.
TREES CANNOT THRIVE IN COMPACTED SOIL.
WHAT COMPACTS SOIL?
HEAVY EQUIPMENT, CONSTANT PRESSURE…...
4. TREES AND TRUCKS are not a good mix.
An entire grove of trees was used as a parking lot for trucks - the same location as
last year. There are miles of paving in Golden Gate Park -- let's keep the vehicles
off of the parkland!
5. Trucks should not drive under tree canopies
2013
2013
Why isn’t this truck in the street?
Why is a path next to a tree
chosen?
7. Yes, it is worth
protecting!
Remember – it
takes 60 years to
grow a 60-year old
tree.
8. FENCING --
FENCING PROTECTS VEGETATION
DURING THE CONCERTS – THIS IS
GOOD.
FENCING LOCKS PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR
PARK FOR TWO WEEKS AND
DEGRADES THE PARK EXPERIENCE –
THIS IS NOT GOOD.
9. FENCING - This is the festival map –
This is what is actually fenced:
Blue = festival map area
Red = fenced area
Yellow = area pedestrians are told not to enter
12. Chain of Lakes and MLK - This fence went up July 28th and stayed up for weeks;
pedestrian gates were locked for days afterward.
13. OTHER ISSUES: TRUCKS TOOK OVER ½ OF OCEAN BEACH PARKING LOT FOR DAYS:
Lucky for beach-goers that the weather was foggy!
IDEA!
Use blocked-off section of
Sunset Blvd. at the Park for
truck parking.
14. SOUTH EDGE OF PARK SUBJECT TO CROWDS AND EROSION:
Crowds descended from N Judah and trampled hillside and vegetation .
IDEA!
Better crowd control along southern
edge of the Park
15. THE GOOD NEWS:
Bike parking was much better. We saw NO bikes chained to trees !
17. SUGGESTIONS
FENCES – GOOD FOR PLANTS, BAD FOR PARK USERS:
PUT OUTER FENCES UP CLOSER TO CONCERT DATE AND
TAKE DOWN MORE QUICKLY AFTERWARDS!
TRUCKS – BAD FOR TREES: MAKE TREE ROOT PROTECTION A
PRIORITY
OCEAN BEACH PARKING LOT IS IMPORTANT FOR BEACH-
GOERS: USE SUNSET BLVD. FOR TRUCK PARKING
SOIL ON SLOPES ERODES EASILY –
PROTECT SOIL AND PLANTS AT SOUTHERN EDGE OF PARK!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK ON THE BIKE PARKING AND
CAREFUL CLEAN-UP!
18. www.goldengateparkpreservation.org
“Destroy a public
building and it can be
rebuilt in a year;
destroy a city
woodland park and all
the people living at the
time will have passed
away before its
restoration can be
effected."
William Hammond Hall,
Surveyor
First Superintendent of
Golden Gate Park
