Volunteers have reached another milestone in their effort to re-establish native plants and animal species at the Presidio of San Francisco .

On an early, chilly morning last weekend, about 100 volunteers and staff gathered at the Presidio's Sunset Scrub, a major habitat restoration project near the park's World War II Memorial on Lincoln Boulevard. Along a slope below Immigrant Point Overlook , they pulled out gardening tools and got to work.

In the crowd was volunteer Xavier Maximus Clark, who was smoothing out soil around a fern that he just put in the ground.

"You're planting this. You're planting seed. They are going to be here for decades," Clark enthused. "Like you can come back 30, 40 years and know that you helped build this."

The plantings at Sunset Scrub are the latest i

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