i drive by an area regularly that was a sort of swamp/bog but they cleared it for housing. i always laugh because all the lawn grass dies off because of how acidic and innutritious the soil is and i see all the boomers toiling outside maddeningly trying to fix it, presumably being eaten to shit by bugs that once inhabited the swamp/bog

and for real, lawn culture in a desert in maddeningly insane. seems like a perfect opportunity to import japanese rock gardens laden with pretty native plants but apparently not