This yellow, sifted dirt from some place is routinely spread in south Fayetteville on land that was formerly prairie with dark, rich soil and the ability to foster fine native plants in abundance. Allowing or is it requiring? builders to spread something as unnatural and inappropriate as this yellow, sandy, potential silt in our city is absolutely ridiculous. It will be running down the street if we get rain this week and it will add more to the silt load of the Town Branch of The West Fork of the White River and further damage Beaver Lake. This spot will never be true greenspace. It has red dirt, gravel, rock, etc., a few inches beneath this yellow dirt. There is no excuse for allowing or requiring this.
The soil that was here when the settlers came is the right soil. USE it. Stop ABUSING it.
At the right edge of the photos a line of small evergreen shrubs and assorted trees are either in the ground or lying ready to be planted. Nonnative plants of any kind should not be allowed on commercial sites. Nothing that might require watering or mulching or weedeating or any other maintenance should be required or allowed. Put native plants in native soil and leave them alone. What is happening now is absurd, expensive and NONSUSTAINABLE.
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Amen, brother Aub!
That looks like the same stuff the park department spreads in places and the UA spreads in places. Where does it come from?
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