Keeping the forest in Forest Park
Blog URL http://www.SaveForestPark.blogspot.com
Located New York, New York USA
Tags volunteering, city parks, littering, preserving wild places, immigration, social behavior, urban planning, underage drinking, inculcating American va
A blog about city parks, preserving wild places, social behavior and urban planning
Latest Blog Posts
- Forest Park and the homeless on Nov 12, 2009
Today, I completed what has now become an annual inspection of the woods around the area of Strack Pond. I am pleased to announce that the combination of persistent response to problem areas and, now that the understory has shed its leaves and...
- Confession: I am removing evidence from a crime scene on Oct 27, 2009
Rene, the Park Manager told me that he would have two more of the large trash bags I left off the trail in the woods disposed of. It takes me 3 or 4 visits to the park to fill one of those bags. There are other places in the park I leave garbage also...
- Immigration and Forest Park on Sep 4, 2009
Our park touches five different neighborhoods in Queens. If you took a tour of all the homes on the blocks adjacent to or within a walk of the park, you would find urban mansions, condos, new homes, large and small apartment complexes and simple one...
- The red trail on Jun 30, 2009
This morning I walked around my adopted woods surrounding Strack Pond with the administer of Forest Park responsible for the wooded areas in the park. She gave me permission to mark out a trail through the woods. I hope to elicit the help of all who...
- Thoughts by the pond on Jun 15, 2009
I remember sitting in my favorite spot beneath a wide oak tree just off the trail that surrounds the pond. The last snow was still on the ground but the sun and air told of spring coming. You can see the buildings that surround the park and the top...
- The Other Forest Park on Jun 8, 2009
Although I wish for this blog to be a public forum, so far I have received little comment (publicly) from the readers. Word has reached me however, that at least one of my readers worries that the blog because many of the posts focus on the business...
- Sex in the Park on Jun 4, 2009
Picking up trash in the park is an interesting way to study human behavior. Heavy concentrations of particular kinds of trash lead one to certain conclusions about how the park is used, at least by those who litter. Now, hopefully there are those use...
