Wild Places Destroyed in the Name of Progress

EcoWatch: There`s a wild place at the end of my street inside the city limits. Sixty acres of very big pin oaks, wild cherry, basswood, some old agricultural fields reverting back to wetlands and forest and an ancient fencerow of swamp white oaks that may be remnants of the original wilderness. There are a few small ponds, too, that formed after sandstone quarrying a very long time ago. It`s a great place to watch red foxes, hear frogs, wild turkey and wood thrushes singing in the spring, and escape the......

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