What Is A Backyard Habitat?
A backyard habitat is a small scale wildlife refuge. Think of it as the “Great Outdoors” in miniature! It can be something as small as a few square feet for a butterfly garden, or a bird bath and feeder, or a full scale habitat, comprising an acre or more, and attracting all sorts of native [...]
September 4, 2008
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Why Create a Backyard Habitat?
There are a lot of great reasons to create a backyard habitat. This list offers some of the more obvious ones:
A love of wildlife.
If you are a nature lover, why not create some in your backyard? When we say create, we really mean cooperate. When working on such a project, we are merely filling in [...]
September 3, 2008
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Backyard Habitat Project | Where do I start? Be DIRECT
Well, we are talking about backyard habitats, so, it would seem reasonable to start there! It really doesn’t have to be a backyard, it can be a front yard, or on the side of your home, or an unused lot. In other words, it can be almost any where.
The place to begin, is in determining [...]
September 3, 2008
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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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Backyard Habitat Notes
Many of the trees listed on the previous page have a large number of common names, and some are very interesting. One of the common names for huckleberry is farkleberry. By the way, all blueberries are the descendants of huckleberry. Wax myrtle is also known as swamp myrtle, and bayberry, because it was used in [...]
August 13, 2008
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