Gye Greene's Thoughts

Gye Greene's Thoughts (w/ apologies to The Smithereens and their similarly-titled album!)

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Still some woods left

While not to deny that our area is -- unfortunately -- getting built up, and that perfectly good sections of forest are getting knocked down to build housing estates in their place -- in my immediate area (a one-mile radius?), it's still pretty woodsy. See aerial photo (click to enlarge).

The little red rectangles, indicated by the big red arrows, are the neighbors' houses -- just to give you a sense of scale.


--GG

1 Comments:

At October 23, 2009 12:03 PM, Anonymous Giovanni said...

How much "woods are left" depends on your perspective. * If you simply want to be able to see a tree, no problem. Plenty of trees to see. * If you want to maintain a cooler temperature in your vicinity, well, it looks like so far it's not too heavily impacted from "the urban heat island effect." (Trees, shrubs, grass remain cooler after being blasted by sun for hours, while roads and roofs retain the heat, even into the night.) * If you want to actually support koalas and other larger animals -- looks like it's too late. Didn't you say there USED TO BE koalas in the area, but not anymore?
When humans are compact in their living space, wild animals have more habitat to find food and shelter and survive.

 

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