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VEGETATION AND
ECOLOGY
Principle: Protect and expand City Park’s vegetation patterns and plant species to preserve character, provide wildlife or bird habitat or other ecological benefits, and to create ecological diversity.
City ParkFebruary 2018
Vegetation & Ecology
Beautiful gardens, planting, and trees
throughout
Improved lily pond
Tree Variety
Green retreat within the city
Tree canopy at playground
Maintain quiet meadows
Shakespeare Tree
Improve DeBoer Canyon and waterway
Protect urban forest
Fully realized, integrated PLACE
Sustainability
Enhance Park Promenade
Enjoy passive nature
What We Heard:
Replenish trees/planting patterns
Reopen spillway, gulch, lily ponds
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City ParkFebruary 2018
Urban Forest
Tree Facts: • Number of Trees: 3699 • Number of Tree Species: 157 • Most Common Species: • Green Ash (363) • Linden (232) • Blue Spruce (224) • Hawthorn (213) • Crabapple (173) • Austrian Pine (161) • Cottonwood (147) • Honeylocust (141) • Ponderosa Pine (126) • Bur Oak (124) • American Elm (109)
Tree Condition: • Excellent: 6% • Good: 64% • Fair: 24% • Poor: 5% • Very Poor: 1.3%
City ParkFebruary 2018
Urban Wildlife and Birds• Mammals: • Coyote, Fox, Squirrels, Raccoons
• Birds: • Duck Lack rookery - Double-crested Cormorants plus Canada geese,ducks - mallards, golden eyes, shoveler, etc • Ferril Lake island rookery - Black-crowned night herons plus cormorants, Canada geese, pelicans, snowy egrets, great blue herons, ducks- mallards, shovelers, golden eyes, American avocet
• Pair of Hawks and occasional bald eagle and great-horned owls
• Aquatic Life: • Bull frogs and turtles • Fish - common carp and rainbow trout (when it’s stocked) Ecology
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City ParkFebruary 2018
Southeast Corner - Nature Inside / Outside
Legend Riparian Lake Edge Museum of Nature and Science DeBoer Canyon Nature Play Lily Pond Pinetum Natural Meadow Park Promenade
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