Is it time for Denver to get back to nature?
Has Denver lost its mojo? That's a question we explored in our package published July 20. Since then, we've received many responses, along with some thoughtful suggestions for how the Mile High City can get its mojo back. Here's one of them:
That cities are a"concrete jungle" is a common enough complaint in the modern world, often backed by the observation that it is possible — if one so wishes — to go through life encountering nothing"natural" save the occasional mud puddle. We are here, nature is"there." We succeeded in the millennia-long quest of antecedent generations to separate human culture from adjacent wilderness, or so we often think of it.
But nature disagrees. Imagine the Great Plains as a boundless sea, with the foothills as the dunes of the western shore. In an actual seashore, it is intuitive that the waters [should be] vibrant with marine life, and the cliff tops and dunes with life of that biome — but in between, trapped in the surf, is a rough and rocky strand that at first glance may appear not only lifeless, but inhospitable.
Of the 514 bird species documented to have occurred within the state, about 400 have been recorded in the metro area, and many seemingly as part of their normal annual routines, with perhaps 100 or so of those nesting locally. Cavity nesting birds — normally associated with mature tree canopy — can be found downtown, even if in smaller numbers than in other more"intuitively natural" parts of the city, like a park.
Coyote can be found or heard in every neighborhood, beaver should be expected anywhere there is moving water, and the notoriously shy bobcat den within the developed metro area. We are no stranger to deer or bear, and even the occasional elk or mountain lion barely registers surprise in us.
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