Sunday 11 August 2024

Making Tracks #richmond 24

Who causes this much devastation to the landscape? Surely the wildlife won’t make this much mess on their approach to the water? They’d probably want to cover their tracks so that predators wouldn’t be able to follow them. But they’d also want a trail where there’s so scent of any danger. And if there was some way of encouraging predators to use the same trail every time; they would have plenty of safe options, as predators like the path of least resistance to preserve their energy for the hunt. These could be the tracks of humans attempting to tame the landscape. It’s worn down over time with footsteps tramping down the grass, tyres rolling over them and dirt being redistributed. I wonder if a canyon will eventually be created over time. They’ll have to rope off the area to stop people wearing down the trail which will cause restrictions to the wildlife but will let a new one develop which will allow the first trail to recover.


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