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

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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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