Subject: National Park Service

• Tenderloin Listed as Federal Historic District

  Not your average national park visitorsOne of San Francisco's most notoriously downtrodden neighborhoods has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places, a distinction that -- in addition to giving the neighborhood some welcome positive attention -- brings the potential for federal tax credits on building renovations.The National Park Service (NPS) on Friday announced that "all or part" of 33 blocks in the Tenderloin had been designated a historic district. The announcement capped a

  February 16, 2009

• Presidio Trust's Fisher Museum Propaganda War Continues

  The term 'Presidio Trust' has become an oxymoronThe Presidio Trust is a wholly owned government corporation created by Congress to manage the Presidio.The Presidio Trust is not a private fiefdom assigned to connive its way into granting Gap magnate Don Fisher his dream of creating a publicly-subsidized museum in his own honor. Somehow, however, nobody explained this nuance to Clay Harrell, the Trust's press flack, and, apparently, dissembler-in-chief.Early last week, acting on a tip that the Tru

  March 2, 2009

• Off-Base (Part II)

  January 10, 1996

• Off-Base (Part I)

  January 10, 1996

• Letters

  January 31, 1996

• Feds take the fun out of fungi hunting at Lands End

  April 15, 2009

• SF Weekly Letters

  July 30, 2008

• The Pork Park

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is quietly trying to keep the Presidio on the public teat. That's a good thing.

  July 23, 2008

• SF Weekly Letters

  April 23, 2008

• Fall Into the Cash

  Let's hope the Fishers use it to clean up the messes they've created.

  April 23, 2008

• An Inconvenient Plant

  One of the world's rarest plants grows in the Presidio. Plans are under way to save it — and ax thousands of trees in the process.

  April 16, 2008

• Mother Nature or Nurture?

  The question of whether to begin saving creatures and habitats from climate change

  July 4, 2007

• Bambi Must Die

  The efficient killing of invasive deer is being fought by concerned animal activists in Marin. But who's looking out for S.F. venison connoisseurs?

  March 21, 2007

• Picket Up

  January 3, 2007

• Fire Fighting

  April 12, 2006

• It Will Keep Shining

  After years of self-sacrifice, legendary newspaper editor Dave Mitchell sells his beloved Point Reyes Light

  November 16, 2005

• An Instigator's Instigator

  The guy who pitted dog people against plant people in one of S.F.'s epic political battles has, um, switched sides

  March 3, 2004

• Am I Blue

  Characterless chowders and seafood seem at home in the too-casual Blue Mermaid

  October 22, 2003

• Poisoned Gods

  As museums return stolen religious artifacts, Native Americans are learning that their most sacred objects may kill them

  September 4, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of August 14, 2002

  August 14, 2002

• The Nature of Politics

  Dog owners, compliant pols viciously distort a reasonable attempt to preserve our environmental legacy

  July 24, 2002

• Hail the Conquering Hero

  Why is a Bay Area filmmaker who cherishes his independence about to direct a $40 million studio film?

  June 5, 2002

• Best Local Version of Machu Picchu

  Batteries Chamberlain, Crosby, Cranston, Marcus Miller, and Boutelle

  May 15, 2002

• Balkans by the Bay

  Aquatic Park, long mismanaged by a jumble of self-interested entities, needs public-spirited refurbishment

  January 16, 2002

• Citizen Canine

  As the dog wars heat up, desperate times call for desperate measures -- perhaps a mandatory test for off-leash pets?

  January 31, 2001

• West Coasters

  Cliff House

  June 21, 2000

• No March Madness

  The fervor isn't building for another gay rally on Washington

  March 22, 2000

• Riff Raff

  August 4, 1999

• Riff Raff

  July 28, 1999

• Riff Raff

  July 14, 1999

• Ship of Fools

  Men keep falling in love with the aging steam schooner Wapama. She always exacts her price.

  March 17, 1999

• Ghost Museum

  May 13, 1998

• Presidio Originals

  The Muwekma Ohlone tribe pushes for a voice in Presidio planning -- and, perhaps, a piece of a national park

  May 13, 1998

• Letters

  January 7, 1998

• Night + Day

  December 24, 1997

• Bag It, Larry

  No one seems to want a grocery store in the Presidio except Larry Buck

  December 24, 1997

• A Pollution Breakthrough

  Powerful new environmental cleanup regime relies on expert use of votive candles, flowers

  November 26, 1997

• Night+Day

  November 12, 1997

• Cliff Notes

  November 12, 1997

• Night Crawler

  October 22, 1997

• That Sinking Feeling

  Sinkhole that ate Seacliff still eats at its residents

  October 1, 1997

• Between a Rock and a ... Rock

  Environmental testing in the Presidio may be a Sisyphean task

  September 24, 1997

• The House of Tudor

  July 23, 1997

• Rural Renewal

  Will paving one of S.F.'s last dirt streets improve or ruin east Bernal Heights?

  March 12, 1997

• When the Bay was Groun Zero

  A look at the Cold War ghosts that haunt the rim of the city

  October 16, 1996

• Night Crawler

  October 9, 1996

• Dog Bites

  August 28, 1996

• Whirly Birds

  The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?

  March 29, 1995

• What You Do with a Drunken Sailor

  April 2, 2008