Poster has black ink printed on white paper. Across the top of the poster is a banner with "San Francisco: wild in the city" at the center. On the left side of the banner is "native / before - 1750". On the left side of the poster is an illustration of native San Francisco, depicting mostly plants and animals. On the right side of the banner is "today / 1980s" with an illustration of a map of San Francisco in the 1980s, with no plants or animals and significant development. At the bottom left are three columns of environments, plants and notable sites, with descriptions. At the bottom right is "goal: clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of pelicans + osprey + gray whale / in our lives; salmon + trout in our streams; unmuddied language + good dreams. -Gary Snyder" followed by acknowledgements.