The park contains a variety of communities or habitat types which support different plants and wildlife. The flower pictured here is along a "hedgerow" adjacent to an "old field". Types of community or habitat type in Oatka Creek Park:
Developed
Hedgerow
Old field
Shrub upland
Old field/shrub upland
Deciduous forest
Wetland
Stream edge/stream
The undeveloped areas of this park in each community create attractive places for the particular critters which can only thrive on the vegetation which is available there. The bee in this photo is dependent on collecting pollen from flowers which need certain conditions to thrive in abundance. Mankind is capable of removing these communities and bears the responsibility to choose wisely the extent to which he significantly alters the environment.
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