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Acknowledgments

I WOULD like to thank the many people who helped me write this book. Arthur Lee Jacobson, author of Trees of Seattle, first suggested the idea, and he was generous with his time in reviewing the original manuscript. Matt Ritter and Jason Dewees—both tree professionals who have likely forgotten more about trees than I will ever know—answered countless questions and helped me identify rare and unusual members of San Francisco’s urban forest. Jaime Pandolfo provided much of the photography in the first edition of The Trees of San Francisco, and Matt Ritter and Nathan Brewer added beautiful images for this second edition. Dan Flanagan, Doug Wildman, and others from Friends of the Urban Forest have made that organization’s wealth of data available to me, and have helped in numerous other ways. Mark Bittner, Rigo 23, and the family of Victor Reiter contributed information and content to these pages. Peter Ehrlich, forester at the Presidio Trust, added details for the Presidio walking tour. Michele Palmer, Sid Silverman, Ted Kipping, Drew Dara-Abrams, Karla Nagy, Evan Martin, Meena Tappouni, Adrianne Jang, Samuel Clay, Brittany Janis, and Gordon Matassa made valuable suggestions for the walking tours and sidebar stories.