In the meantime, you can visit the site from 10 a.m. At least, she said, the remaining plants still provide habitat for local animals, and someday, she has faith the Greenway will be open to humans too. “You pick your battles,” Mercer said ruefully, looking at the shorn Cleveland sage and shaped-up sagebrush. We have to find common ground and we need to work together to carve out that path.” “We want to be a partner with them, and take into account their vision of an urban forest, but if it’s open to the public, we can’t just let it be overgrown. “We’re really grateful to the community group who have been volunteering their time tremendously, but native plant vegetation gets really strong root systems that can cause blockage and flooding,” she said. And it does need access to do the maintenance that the site requires, Meisami-Fard said. This highlights the reality: Wild areas may be beautiful, but they’re also a problem for the city, which has to worry about liability issues and security for surrounding neighbors. It is the opposite of the habitat restoration aesthetic being promoted,” Mercer added. “There was no reason for the clearing, and it disturbs the native bees, the soil invertebrates and all the other animals that use the area for habitat. Sanitation and Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky.
“It was extremely upsetting that even after asking that the native plants not be ‘neat and tidy’ and the native trees not be pruned (it is the wrong time of year), many plants that were not in the creek and not in the way of equipment were mowed, damaged or removed,” Mercer wrote in a May 16 letter to L.A. And to the volunteers’ consternation, they tidied up the site like a traditional no-leaf-left-behind landscape. But when the city landscaping crew came in early May to dredge out the cattails in the stream, they damaged some native plants with their machinery. Habitats are supposed to be a little wild, with sprawling shrubs and leaf litter on the ground, creating a natural mulch, shelter, food and nesting materials.
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