Mother Nature Doesn't Need Every Inch Of Every Park

There are miles and miles of creek bank in Allentown. In addition to the Little Lehigh, we have the Jordan, Little Cedar, Cedar and Trout. For the last twenty years I have been campaigning to restore the traditional park design to select sections of our most iconic parks. In that design the banks were secured against erosion by Weeping Willow trees, planted about every twenty feet. The Willows have a shallow spreading root system, especially suited to fortify against erosion.  The picture postcards of Allentown's glory years feature such park scenes.

Those scenes should be returned to the most famous sections of our park system.  Among the areas begging for former grace are the rose garden section of Cedar Park, and the Robin Hood section of Lehigh Parkway. 

While the environmentalists of convenience complain about changing values, children have always delighted  standing on the creek bank watching and listening to the water rush by.

little girls can no longer fish along the brush lined creeks