September 11th

Philip Colburn

11 September 2008

Location: Just north of the construction site behind Baxter.

Time: 0745- 0800 hours

Weather: Sunny and 54 degrees

 

I decided to go somewhere else near to the construction site because it seems like a very good place to talk about the difference between then and now. I went to the park just north of it at about 8 am, which would normally be a decent time to find animals.  However, the park is still almost completely empty.  It is just full of trees and one or two Western Grey Squirrels.  It appears that the noise from the construction has scared away a significant number of animals that used to live in the park.   The construction has forced these small islands of wilderness to be almost completely evacuated, leaving all of the trees almost free of movement.  This completely ruins the point of having these small isolated parks in the city, because the parks are refuges for the wildlife that lives in Salem.  Hopefully the animals will return to these parks after the construction is finished, but it is impossible to know for sure

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