RE: We Now Live on A Bush Block - Everyone Should

Yeah I know what you mean about the ecosystem being hard to explain. When I spoke of old growth I was thinking of the Pacific Northwest of the United States where my grandparents are from and where I spent most of my teens/early 20's. That landscape has lots of old growth redwoods, pines, and berry patches. Where I live now in a dryer landscape of Argentina it is really hard to tell what is old growth because the types of trees we have don't grow quite so tall.

Personally I have always been really interested in pollinators and insects of all kinds. One thing my partner pointed out recently is that a lot of people cut down the bushes and herbs to make grassy patches between the trees. They think they are doing the right thing by leaving the trees - and they kind of are - but the pollinators are then left without much by way of flowers as trees tend to only flower in spring. So, even when people think they are doing the right thing by clearing out brush to prevent fires and making lawns for their kids to play, they are semi-deforesting the area.