Today I am working on protecting some wild spaces.
Nothing huge. It's a few acres the city planted native wildflowers about four years ago.
This year, it's been mowed down every single time they mow the area. In the past, I was even able to get them to not mow it back in the autumn, as many the species have hollow stems our native critters overwinter in, and simply just do a single mow in early march after last frost.
It worked really well. Until this year.
I was told it may be being mowed now because someone doesn't want the wildflowers! (IMPO, it's more likely the mowing team was not communicated with, as there are no signs.) But...CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
The office will hopefully now be flooded with calls from folk I know who live and work nearby, who also miss the flowers, but didn't know what to do about it.
Sometimes all it takes is one person providing the phone number and quick outline of what needs communicated to get people over their inaction hump.
It may not be much, but two acres of protection is better than none. It's also likely to have a positive payout - maybe the city will sign post it so we don't have to worry about this in the future, and at the very least, it will probably not be mowed any longer. It may be a little late this year for it to fully recover, but, hopefully, next year will be good!
This is your sign to actually DO SOMETHING, even if it's small. You need the dopamine, so do it!