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Monday, July 20, 2009

S.F. native's quest to fill city with natives

Patricia Yollin, Special to The Chronicle

Greg Gaar sounded like an air traffic controller who'd just spotted the biggest plane in the world.

"Here's a butterfly coming in right now!" he shouted. "It's a red admiral."

The butterfly had come to the right place: The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council's Native Plant Nursery lures all kinds of wildlife to the southeast corner of Golden Gate Park. Gaar, however, would like to attract more humans to the undertaking he started five years ago.

"I want people to know that we exist," said the 61-year-old ecologist. "My main problem is marketing - it certainly is not propagating plants."

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