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Tom Parker

  • News

    April 16, 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.

  • Music

    February 5, 1997

    Riff Raff

    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.

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    'Extinct' Plant Discovered -- Right In Middle of Doyle Drive Highway Path

    © California Academy of SciencesThe incredibly rare Franciscan Manzanita​A pair of the state's foremost experts in manzanita plants have weighed in that the bush recently uncovered during the Doyle Drive project is a living specimen of the Franciscan Manzanita -- a discovery akin to stumbling acr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Rats Fire = Salvation of California Plant

    Joe EskenaziGrowing manzanitas takes a green thumb -- and rodents​These are heady times indeed for the scientists who crawl through the dirt to study the short, sprawling plant species that all but exclusively calls California home -- the manzanita. Yesterday we reported that two of the state's to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Could Discovery of 'Extinct' Plant Toss Monkey Wrench Into Doyle Drive Rebuild?

    © California Academy of SciencesThe Franciscan Manzanita​The other day we reported on the apparent discovery of a Franciscan Manzanita in the Presidio -- the first wild specimen of the native San Franciscan plant spotted since 1947. But, in a development that appears to be ironic -- without any m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Wonder of Wonders: *Everybody* Seems Happy With Relocation of 'Extinct' Presidio Plant

    © California Academy of SciencesThe 'extinct' Franciscan Manzanita is now planted at an undisclosed location that's not in the middle of a billion-dollar highway route​Back in November, we wrote about the discovery of a plant no one had seen in the wild since 1947 and considered "extinct in the w ... More >>

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