OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL

YEARLY REPORT

August 15, 2013

Vegetation Protection Measures

Park Access

Golden Gate Park Preservation Alliance ©

www.goldengateparkpreservation.org

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…...

National Arbor Day Foundation,

“Trenching and Tunneling Near Trees”

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!

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?

Trucks driving under the canopy: Is this tree important? Is it worth protecting?

Yes, it is worth

protecting!

Remember – it

takes 60 years to

grow a 60-year old

tree.

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.

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

Fencing is not parklike…

Chain of Lakes and MLK - This fence went up July 28th and stayed up for weeks;

pedestrian gates were locked for days afterward.

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.

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

THE GOOD NEWS:

Bike parking was much better. We saw NO bikes chained to trees !

THE GOOD NEWS:

Painstaking post-concert clean-up by volunteers group.

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!

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