Hear, hear!
Many wildflowers have disappeared for lack of their habitat.
Wish we could mandate that a certain percentage of new or abandoned housing would be assigned to creating whatever habitat would be appropriate to any given area. With regard to the parks around here, when's the last time anyone hiking in our neck of the woods saw a few acres of trillium blooming in the wild? I haven't seen any in my lifetime. Over the past 40 years, DH and I have seen unbelievable areas of park land gobbled up around here by invasives such as multiflora rose, bittersweet, thumbtear vine, basket grass, Russian Olive, etc.
Somewhere I read that America has more folks locked up in prisons, per capitata, than any other country in the world. There is our cheap labor to make and maintain those habitats and plant communities. In the planet I live on, none of them would be allowed out of jail until they learned basic concepts of (and respect for) ecology and habitat, as well as the names and attributes of any plants they would be required to plant and tend.
Well, I can dream. Thank you, Sharon, for this inspiration :)
Karen
