Strange Sanctuary
Old Factories Offer New Hope for Wildlife
Visitors are flocking to see the new life
emerging in brown industrial lands
now morphing into vibrant ecosystems
as nature reclaims idle factories, mines,
docks, landfills, rail spurs, warehouses and
parking lots. The unfolding rehabilitation is
getting help from the likes of Julie Craves, a
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research supervisor at the University of Mich-
igan-Dearborn, who monitors eight vacant
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properties that the Ford Motor Company has
remade as wildlife habitat.
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Not every industrial site within the 48-mile-long Detroit
Saturday, April 10, 2010
River International Wildlife Refuge will be reclaimed. But,
9 am to 5 pm
says Craves, “I have come to really love this juxtaposition of
the hyper-urban with resilient nature.” She notes how strate-
gic plantings have attracted songbirds and raptors. More than
Hudson Valley’s
300 species of migratory birds rest, nest and feed here.
Spurred by a need to manage thousands of idle acres,
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corporations like BP, Gulf Oil, Bridgestone and U.S. Steel
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have undertaken similar projects. One of the more unlikely is
Denver’s Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
When the arsenal, which produced nerve gas and other chem-
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Today, “We’ve restored the habitat back to short-grass prairie,
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