Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Non-compliance, no enforcement

fishing lineFishing garbage found in the Lullwater. No hooks on this mess, luckily, but we’ve all seen the damage this shit does to birds and mammals right here in Prospect Park. We gathered it up and canned it, since the fish-torturer was too much of an asshole to do so.

Signs are a joke without enforcement: an unleashed dog blitzed past us just before this stuff tangled around our legs.

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