Indian Creek Park

We were there for a race. Nice clean area. There is ball fields, open area to run and a playground.

The kids park is nice.  However, I feel they have abandoned the playground, because this area is in a flood zone like Roe park, Nall Park, Indian Creek Park, and Nall Hills Park.nA family of Coyotes or foxes live on the river and you can hear them at dusk.nI have never seen the creek clear and see through before this winter, because normally it's all green or brown from the fertilizer and pesticide run-off from the neighborhood.nn*Cliff notes: the creek needs more vegetation along the sides!!*nThe creek needs to have cattails, reeds, shrub willows, cottonwoods, maples, basswood/Linden/Tilia, Eastern Red Cedar, honey locust, sweet gum, persimmons (Diospyros), pawpaw (Asimina) , buckeye (Aesculus), hickories/pecans (Carya), yellowwood (Cladrastis), Elms/Hackberry, Nyssa sylvatica, and sycamores (Platanus) fast growing water loving trees to hold in the banks of the creek.  They should also be planting trees that produce large root systems like the cypress: Taxodium ascended (Pond) or T. distichum (Bald). Other trees that grew along the creeks and river systems include the trees that naturally produce suckers or watersprouts: Rosacea (Amelanchier arborea- serviceberry, A. laevis- Allegheny serviceberry, Crataegus crus-galli- Cockspur Thorn, C. mollis- Downy Hawthorn, C. phaenopyrum- Washington Thorn; Malus coronaria- Wild Sweet Crabapple, M. ioensis- Prairie CrabApple, crab apple hybrids; Prunus serotina- black cherry; Sorbus americana- American Mountain Ash), river/white birches, beech, black gum, black locust, box elder, fringe tree, and Balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera).  Plants that the city can grow, because they are in planting zone 6 includes: Stewartia Malacodendron (Silky Stewartia).n*Cliff notes: the creek needs more vegetation along the sides!!*nnThe area really needs to be turned over to a beaver family to dam part of the creek to help disperse flood waters through their many canals and it would be much easier for a beaver family if the city bought the properties between 103rd street and Nall Avenue to the creek.