My concerns are for my city of Santa Paula. It is growing and there is not much land to build in our town. The city counsel gives permission to build apartments around town; that are about three stories high. Some are also built on the edge of the sidewalk. We also don’t have allot of parks, so people cant play their sports. Land is so precious. Where I live, their are building allot of expensive homes; up on the hill behind where I live. People don’t have allot of money to buy these new homes. At the same time they are taking away the homes of wild life, such as the coyotes, skunks, quails and raccoons. We used to hear the coyotes at night far away. Now a days, they are very close.
A quote from “Coming into the Watershed” by Gary Snyder (360). Habitat flows across both private and public land. We must find a way to work with ecosystems that respects both the rights of landowners and the rights of bears.
I think this is true also for the wild animals that live in my commutes. For which they also live here too. So we must find a way an ecosystem to, between the landowners and wild habitat.
