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  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Cover, DIRECT aproach, Exotic plants, Food, Habitat, Habitat requirements, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native habitat, Native plants, Non native plants, Water, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat  One Comment

Invasive Exotic Plant “Sleeper Cells”

Invasive Exotic Plant “Sleeper Cells”.

What was once, a group of “non invasive” exotic landscape plants, have now become destroyers. It happened while we were sleeping. They seemed innocent enough, but something, or some things, have changed, and now we have some serious thinking to do, about an increasingly serious problem.

A growing invasive species problem. [...]

September 2, 2008  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Biodiversity, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native habitat, Native plants, Non native plants, Shrubs, Trees, Vines, Water  No Comments