Crack of Doom: Wildlife Returning Where Bulldozers Have Left
November 8, 2009 by admin
Filed under Mortgage Mess
Aristotle said that nature abhors a vacuum- it apparently doesn’t think much of abandoned neighborhoods either. Take for example Contra Costa County, northeast from San Francisco:
Just like any residential street in Antioch, Gateway Drive has sidewalks, a paved road, retaining walls separating yards and sewer pipes. What it doesn’t have is residents.
Not human ones, anyway.
Instead, it’s burrowing owls, coyotes, jackrabbits and kestrels that have moved in.
This tract of land on the edge of development in Southeast Antioch has stood primed for new houses for more than two years, since the housing market collapsed and construction halted.
Now, native species have reclaimed the land — a reminder that until recently this part of Contra Costa County, now blanketed with development, was habitat for wildlife.
Any other reminders we should be aware of? News, links, ideas? This is an open thread- let us know what’s on your mind.
