Stop mowing your lawn, basically...?

Yeah. Plus, the truck and trailer to get it there. I haven't met anyone in my town who has a lawn mowed like that and does it themself.

lawns are put in areas where they are unnatural. Water has to be imported. It runs off in places it shouldn't and becomes unusable without treatment. That's just one way.... nevermind the fact the grass itself stores the water and is basically inedible; throwing a wrench into the food web. But hey... whatever... it looks even.

That is two of over a hundred reasons.

I don't know where you live but I live next to a river....We don't import water and grasses grow almost anywhere. If water runs off it runs off into the earth which is where it belongs. Also, some grasses may be inedible to us but other creatures eat grass. Goats, for example. I'm simply trying to show my confusion over your statements.

Hmm, it's mostly the manicured lawn. If you make a mini habitat for native species it should counter act. Manicured lawns tend to be just a glorified plant carpet.

Thanks @funasterrex @cryoenthusiast. @adam44 Think of a golf course and how much they must spend on freshwater.

The only animal that eats the grass in my area are the rabbits. If you don't have the grass manicured properly, the HOA will fine you. If you let a goat roam around your front yard, the HOA will fine you. If you live in an area where the grass is part of the natural habitat it's no big deal, but when you place it where it shouldn't be and try to create an artificial environment to care for it, it tends to get wacky. There are some neighborhoods in Arizona and New Mexico that have the same kind of HOA thing about lawns; that is insanity.

yeah, there's a golf course in my neighborhood lol. They Byron Nelson PGA Tournament used to be played on it. Hehe... "nelson".

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So, you're in the States then. Well, I don't know who HOA is but those rules are nuts. A large city near me literally used goats for weed management recently. What's wrong with goats? Also, you only having rabbits around that eat grass makes me feel like a country hick. We have to worry about snakes and other rodents in tall grass. On the note of golf courses, I agree they are wasteful. I don't like golf so maybe artificial turf would be a problem but I wouldn't know. I'm commenting so much that I feel like guest_ now.

Home Owner's Association. And yes, they are fucking nuts. The main issue is none of the grass in the suburbs here is native grass, it's bluegrass, crabgrass, bermuda grass (god, fuck bermuda grass).. etc. It's also never tall. If it goes over 6 inches, guess what? FINED! There are plenty of snakes around, especially rattlesnakes; particularly eastern and western diamondbacks, but they keep to themselves. I've found around 100 shed skins while walking on the golf course here, but I've never actually seen or heard one. I did find a dead black racer once when I was a kid. She got hit by a car and I moved her off the road and gave her a funeral; I picked some of the grass and let it blow in the wind hoping she'd find peace lmao.

As for artificial turf, that would be simply turrible here. There would be no drainage and the golf course might as well become a small, snaking lake. It's flooded a few times already, but back around 2002? I think?... It flooded to the point the greens were 20 ft underwater. It was crazy... and that was with both natural irrigation, storm drains, and a big ass run-off system that leads to the creek my subdivision is named after (the flood banks of said creek go up at a 45 degree angle for about 40 ft lol)

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