sally stevens. >> hi, my name is saly stevens. i'm here representing the san francisco forest alliance. city wide collision of people concerned with rec and park department plans to cut down thousands of healthy safe trees just because they're not native. part of the rec and parks natural areas program. we're concerned that they use huge amounts of truly nasty herbicides and plans to close miles of trails in our city park. there's growing opposition to knapp. in a short period of time the forest alliance has a petition to stop knapp with 25 signatures and more coming in every day. our first public meeting was standing room only. people are furious at nap's plans for quarter to a third of the city parks but why should you care? the 2008 parks bond contained a pot of money for trail restoration that could only be used for trails in natural areas. trail that's needed fixing in three quarters of our city's park that's don't have natural areas were excluded from consideration for this money n case after case, nap took bonged money for

stevens and below it is a photo of ft. slemmer. it shows you what a fort looked like on the outside. the vegetation has been removed. you have the sally port with the troops coming out. you can see over the port into the fort where the guns are mounted. that is one of my favorite photographs. this is very helpful for a start. ft. ward is a good place to actually start our civil tour of the defenses of washington. before we go out and look at ft. ward, i want to point out this is an 1864 plan of the fort. the part that has been restored here is the northwest bastion which is right here. you will see that. the rest of the fort is not as distinct when you walk through it. the northwest bastion is. this is the model of the fort. notice around it is the abete on the outside of the ditch. this is the northwest bastion. this is the gate or sally port to frt war the engineers there help redo this gate a number of times. but this is your entrance to ft. ward. i want to point out. if you look around there were buildings here which are based on plans and photographs of buildings that were actually in the defenses of washington. but there were ot

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