Canterbury Urban Wilds

[urbpan]

I have a feeling that a lot of the Urban Wilds are like this one: A little piece of land between a school's playing field and the abutting neighbor's yards. It's as if the Urban Wilds people went over all the city maps looking for pieces of land that everyone forgot that the city owned. Which I guess is good to a point. It would be fine if they were just undeveloped, but what happens is they become magnets for trash dumping, since no one is maintaining them, and no one is trying to stop the dumping. This Urban Wild is completely fenced off and inaccessible. I walked completely around it in a few minutes just to see what its features were.




The main feature is a small brook (like Bussey, notable for being open, not culverted). It's potentially an important wetland habitat.


This fence runs along the border of the yards of the residential properties.


This is as close as I could get on the side that borders the school.

EDITED to add: just reviewed this post and my pictures don't make it look half bad. It was pretty heavily dumped in, but these shots are kind of nice really.

Comments

[ziggysinamerica.livejournal.com]

Growing up in Central Jersey, I spent many an afternoon in 'suburban' wilds and there's plenty of places around here where you can be deep in the woods and a half-mile in any direction is pure suburbia.

Then my dad yelled at me for going out into the woods by myself and so I stopped. *sigh*

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

Why do they culvert brooks? They messed up one from my childhood in rural Michigan. (And it's in the middle of nowhere!)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I don't know--I guess for erosion control, and maybe to make it easier to build roads and things around them?