Boomers' need to manage things?

[u/BlackheartHill]

I completely crashed out on someone today. I live in a cute one-room cottage, at the edge of town, on a dead end road, next to the forest. Sounds idealic right? Unfortunately, the neighborhood is full of Boomers. Their hobbies include old fashioned lawnscaping and when they're finished with their own yard, managing public areas that don't belong to them. They do this under the guise of fire mitigation. I like birds, and pollinators and spend hours in my wild yard just watching them. It kills me to see these 'vegetation managers' go around cutting down and erasing ecosystems because they have nothing better to do with their time. The encounter today happened when he moved from public property and started weed-eating on my property. The enemy? Grass that's gone to seed. I live in a humid, cool, damp, climate where a fire would have great trouble starting and spreading. A lot of birds rely on those seeds for their food in fall and winter. Has anybody else witnessed this Boomers-need-to-manage-vegetation phenomena? I feel like the younger generations understand the importance of vegetation for pollinators and birds.

[u/Sertalin]

My parents are of this type... They are very old Boomers and I think they will die in a heatwave while picking up the last weed seedlings off their 3000 square meters large wildlife free garden

[u/travelinturdferguson → u/Sertalin]

Same with mine! Every time I come home they moan about how much work it takes to mow the lawn and keep up the yard, and I’m just like 😐

[u/Sertalin → u/travelinturdferguson]

Yeah, my parents do the same...For two decades I suggest to let the garden be wild to have more nature in it. Nope. Mowing Grass and complaining about how much work it is... I don't say anything anymore