my name's eddie bartly. i'm a district ten resident, and i'm a researcher, golden gate researcher, golden gate audubon society, all these birdie groups. we strongly support the city goals of restoring our local native biodiversity that was endorsed through the biodiversity recommendation. we endorse clients that have a greater ecological review. in that, we support, for seat one, morgan vaisset-fauvel, for seat four, daniel flanagan, for and for seat six or seven, zahra gayour-kelly. the grasses that are here sequester carbon at a greater rate over their lives, as to marshes. and thank you for public comment. >> chair ronen: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. bob hall from district five. i just want to echo some of eddie's comments. last week, 3 billion birds have vanished since 1970. a new study came out, so i was also hoping that the urban forestry council take more of an ecological point of view because the forest definition is not only the canopy, but the understory, so there's a lot of interactions between