It would be cool to feature more private property trees. There are some impressive specimens near me, and it would add a lot of species diversity.

Even without private property though, the official map has far more trees than the OP’s map. Even just looking at Brooklyn it’s 177,293 in the OP and 227,812 on the official map.

Why would you use that one and not the official tree map with more up to date data? https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/

I see what you’re saying. There definitely would be a problem with speaking as an authority on a culture (like contributing a recipe to a cookbook, for example) without an authentic connection to that culture. But it is another thing to just say that you have the ancestry, and a superficial connection, based on your family’s word.

Should you? Maybe if it is important to you and you have the interest, but otherwise the family’s word is all a lot of people have.

Ah, I see. I knew about her checking a box on a college application, but didn’t know about her contributing to any literature or claiming to practice culture. Do you know of any examples?

Didn’t she just say that her parents always told her that one of her ancestors was Cherokee, and she just believed them without checking?

Manhattan lies along the Atlantic Flyway, an important migratory route for hundreds of bird species. This route is ancient and ingrained into the DNA of these birds. Regardless of the nature of its construction, Central Park is one of the largest sections of stopover habitat along the urban part of this migratory route. Eurasian eagle owls like Flaco are indiscriminate predators that native birds in the US do not naturally have to deal with. A native great horned owl in Central Park is at risk of predation or injury by this owl, as are red tailed hawks.

NYC already has native owls and hawks that eat rats (and far more than a dozen or so!) This eagle owl is a threat to those native rat killers. Eurasian eagle owls regularly kill and eat other birds of prey in their native range, and there is no reason to suspect it won’t do the same here.

A non native apex predator released into any environment will impact that environment in negative ways.

NYC already has native owls and hawks that eat rats. This eagle owl is a threat to those native rat killers. Eurasian eagle owls regularly kill and eat other birds of prey in their native range, and there is no reason to suspect it won’t do the same here.

And the Parks Department is good about sending rangers to help sick or injured animals in parks.

It depends on which department it gets forwarded to. 311 is kind of just like a switchboard that redirects to the proper agency. If it gets directed to NYPD, you can expect nothing to happen. They decided three years ago that they don’t have to do their jobs anymore.

JBWR is huge and beautiful, but it’s also mostly water. There are some big patches of salt marsh, but even they are dwarfed by the two biggest parks in the Bronx.