j) To maintain the health and quality of our local ecosystems we suggest making an awareness program so that local homeowners will understand the best way to treat their land to ensure the ecosystems remain thriving. There are a multitude of homes in the area with some form of natural water source on their property. With our awareness program we would warn residents against building damns on their property because they disrupt the ecosystem. Damns may work to avoid flooding for the homeowners, however, when they are built the water behind them stills increasing the plant life and the dissolved oxygen of the water, which could lead to the death of previous inhabitants of the water. Also the awareness program would suggest that residents avoid using anything chemical to treat their land. Chemical products contaminate the soil and can therefore cause harm to any animals that pass through while natural substitutes work just as well in maintaining a yard and do not cause harm to any organisms in the area. A lot of residents of our town maintain gardens, which consists of planting a variety of new plant species. If homeowners begin growing plants that are indigenous to the area the local ecosystem will flourish because they would be providing a food source for herbivores and a habitat for invertebrates in the area. If local citizens were to begin to keep even one of these tips in mind from day to day then the damage being caused to the local ecosystems would already be limited.
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