Native habitats and evolving lawn and landscape cultures
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Lawn Culture
Everyone loves a beautiful, freshly cut green lawn, well, almost everyone. More and more people are moving away from the traditional large grass covered areas, opting instead to use more trees, shrubs, and other plants, and they are “going native” with the varieties.
I suspect that this trend will continue, as water [...]
August 30, 2009
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Our DIRECT Approach to Creating a Backyard Habitat
There are many ways you can approach your backyard habitat project, some of them can be a little confusing. We have developed the following approach. We even created an acronym to make it easy to remember. D-I-R-E-C-T:
Decide>Identify>Remove>Encourage>Construct>Transplant
Decide what you want to accomplish.
Is this to be a bird sanctuary, a small animal habitat, or do you [...]
September 3, 2008
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Pest Prevention Green Pest Control
Burns Environmental: Pest Prevention, Green Pest Control.
We are primarily involved in vegetation management, but we also offer other environmental services.
Pest Prevention Information
Our Bugs And Weeds information website has tons of information on the greenest form of pest control, prevention!
“Green” Pest Services
Information on pest related topics is not all we offer. We also provide [...]
September 2, 2008
Tags: Add new tag, Bugs and weeds, Environmental services, Green pest control, Least toxic, Pest prevention Posted in: Bugs and weeds, Environmental services, Green pest control, Pest prevention No Comments
Basic Native Backyard Habitat Requirements
To establish a wildlife friendly habit for your backyard project, there are 3 main components:
Water: All life needs water. Without it survival is impossible. To be able to attract wildlife, there will need to be an ample supply on hand and available for the animals you are trying to attract. This can be attained in [...]
August 31, 2008
Tags: Add new tag, Balance in the food chain, Basic habitat requirements, Cover, Food, Native plant food sources, Native plants, Native settings, Natural food sources, Natural Settings, Water Posted in: Backyard habitat, Cover, Food, Habitat requirements, Native habitat, Native plants, Real Estate, Water, Wildlife habitat One Comment