![]() These abandoned buildings, wastelands and train tracks are also home to a particular type of artist: the anonymous graffiti painter. Rivers lined with old factory buildings, disused power stations and train tracks are home to otters, beavers, mink, dozens of varieties of water birds, as well as fish and other aquatic life. Abandoned factories and other unused buildings, just eye-sores to many, provide habitats for bats, owls, wasps, opposum, skunks and a myriad other small creatures. ![]() The so-called wasteland of the empty city lot you drive past every day provides a habitat for hundreds of plant species, birds and smaller animals like foxes, rabbits, weasels, toads, snakes, voles, and mice. The train tracks you drive over in towns often have strips of land running down either side which provide relatively undisturbed pathways for wild animals such as coyotes and black bears who traverse large territories. Wildlife of all forms exists along the edges of towns and cities as well as within them. In reality, however, the boundary between these habitats is not as clearly defined as we percieve it to be. We tend to think of towns and cities as the habitat of the human species and the fields and woods of the rural areas as the habitat of wildlife. Mixed-media paintings, 2014-2018įor a slide show of these paintings, click on the first image and then use the arrows.Īn "ecotone" is a region of transition between two biological communities or habitats. Next > Ecotone: Collaborations With the AnonymousĮcotone: Collaborations With the Anonymous.
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