Urban_Ecology

Urban Ecology For my field trip report, I went to my neighborhood. Actually, I go there everyday because well, that is where I live. I went out and made my observations during the early evening. The urban environment of North Hills is a rather large place and the environment seems quite hostile. There are clear edges and boundaries within my backyard. There is a flat concrete area followed by a wild field of weeds and dirt with some patches of unkempt grass. On the far end of the yard, a chain link fence separates it from the city’s shrubs and trees. I moved some large rocks and found that it was quite moist underneath and that there was a worm hanging out there. In the areas that had some grass, I noticed that over spray from the neighbor’s sprinkler systems was the cause for such growths. This means that the land is probably fertile and if we wanted a grassy tomorrow, we had hope and should get up and work the land. Our dog Rags, was introduced to our backyard ecosystem roughly three years ago. He has since become a keystone species in that environment. He controls the stray cat population in environment, quite, neighborhood, homeless, probably, people, backyard, water, urban, store, since, own, over, out, near, large, land, gutter, grass, found, field, energy, end, ecosystem, cause, beer, become, because, year, yard, worm, work, within, wisely, wild, weeds