The mission of local ecology is to document urban neighborhood landscapes designed to provide habitat and forage, especially for small, highly mobile species like bees, birds, and butterflies; to store and sequester carbon; to intercept rainfall and slow stormwater runoff; and to reduce ambient temperatures and absorb air pollutants. 
 

Also, local ecology seeks to promote these landscapes as effective strategies to regenerate neighborhoods and cities. We have named these landscapes nature-made sites and the people who design and steward them, nature makers.
 

The project is managed by Georgia Silvera Seamans, a former community and urban forester, now doctoral candidate. Her doctoral research examines the "ecological street tree" and case studies are being conducted in several Northern California cities.  Email us: info(at)localecology.org

 

 

GREENWAYS California Habitats Indigenous Activists

LOTS Ivy Narrow Bird Preserve

PARKS Bradner Gardens Park | Ecology Park

SIDEWALKS Plant*SF Sidewalk Gardens | Garden for the Birds - Mission Greenbelt

TRAFFIC CIRCLES Coastal Meadow Traffic Circle Garden

Orion Grassroots Network