> instead of letting them grown removes one of the last remaining habitats for animals living close to humans

Clearly you've never owned a home with pest problems nor dealt with animals chewing the wiring harness on your vehicle or inhabiting its air intake circuit.

I'm all for conservation and limiting human population size but there's no sense in encouraging pests to live in/around your house and possessions.

What? That's just absurd. I live in a house with tall grass that gets mowed only once, in fall, and there is a absolutely no pest problem. Jest a sea of colorful flowers ans beautiful insects doing their thing minding their own business.

> What? That's just absurd. I live in a house with tall grass that gets mowed only once, in fall, and there is a absolutely no pest problem. Jest a sea of colorful flowers ans beautiful insects doing their thing minding their own business.

You're right, your sample of one clearly proves the absurdity of it.

At this point that is more data than you have provided.

I'd bet you don't live in the northeast, where deer ticks about this size: . carry Lyme and other dangerous diseases. Untamed wilderness is a beautiful and precious thing -- one which bears little relation to your back yard (let alone an urban lot in Detroit).

As somebody who abhors yard maintenance and considers that a real perk of renting, I gotta ask... why once a year and not less?

(But also I'm with the sibling comments here -- lyme's is no joke and I'm terrified to know that it's been migrating west)

its moved once a year to prevent bushes and trees from appearing. Maybe to simulate the wild fire that would briefly sweep over the meadow and clear the small dry plants in fall.

The house I lived at previously, if I didn't mow regularly, the dog would come in covered in ticks.

Well they're parks where people play, but on the bright side, if you're really interested in conservation in the area there's a listing on Zillow here: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Shay-Lake-Rd-Kingston-MI-...

1.3 acres for $6k where you can cultivate whatever plants/habitat you want.

Kingston is quite a ways North of Detroit in Michigan's 'thumb' region, lots of great farmland just North of there.

You can buy large acreage in the city of Detroit pretty inexpensively. The city itself will sell you individual house lots for $100.

> The city itself will sell you individual house lots for $100.

Sounds like a great opportunity for all the wildlife proponents in this thread to do their share and create a natural reserve where they believe there should be one. That's far more productive than criticizing volunteers for mowig a lawn.

Plus $1500 per annum taxes

At least where I live it's done to ward off ticks that can carry Lyme's disease and Encephalitis.

Yes, they also make parks unusable. Residential and commercial spaces are meant for humans. There is no need to even compromise for inclusion of animal habitats unless that area has some sort of endangered population. There is plenty of uncut vegetation in the rest of Michigan