Theme for PARK(ing) Day

"Bug Parking" was the theme I floated yesterday at lunch for 9/17/2010 PARK(ing) day.

Other ideas:

Salvage the Wild
Metered Habitat
Savage Salvage
Honeycomb the City
Build for Buzz
Buzz Building
Tinker Bugs
Be a Bug Tinkerer
Improvise Wild
Make Habitat
Take Habitat Home
Curbside Wilderness
Curbside Wild
Junkyard Bug
Bring Bugs Home
Salvage Nest
Next Nest
Flyway Offramp
Flyway Rest Stop
Forage Salvage
The Urban Hedgerow (the space itself, while temporary, could still be seen as part of the urban hedgerow...)

-Perhaps something relating to that very spot's history -- 19th/Valencia was on the edge of Laguna de Manantial or at least Arroyo de los Dolores http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Category:Mission (Imagine Rodeo Lagoon in the Marin Headlands but in the Mission. Tules! These maps are notoriously vague, BTW, so impressionistic/imaginative geography suffices.)

Tules: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoenoplectus_acutus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21357970@N00/272037667/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanvernon/4802472748/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38341929@N05/3542797831/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9258769@N03/715761895/

Off-topic:
-We might do well to read (at some point) Malcolm Margolin's classic, The Ohlone Way, about indigenous lifeways in the Bay Area. I have one on my shelf but haven't read it. It might inform the idea of 10,000 years of negotiating with other species & managing "nature" in this particular place.