Can people and endangered species coexist?
This film deals with the central dilemma of human growth versus habitat preservation, of property rights versus the rights of other species.
San Bruno Mountain provides a context to explore these complex questions. The mountain represents San Francisco’s lost landscape, a mostly intact remnant of the ecosystem that once covered the hills of that great progressive city. It is the site of the nation’s first Habitat Conservation Plan, a controversial compromise that trades development rights for increased preservation and management on private lands.
The filmmakers do not seek to answer this question, but to tell a compelling story that captures the sometimes painful choices that the local conservationists have to make.