Archive for the ‘Native habitat’ Category
Native habitats and evolving lawn and landscape cultures
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 use [...]
August 30, 2009
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Tags: Add new tag, Landscapes, Lawns, Native habitats, Native landscapes · Posted in: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat information, Biodiversity, Biodiversity and pest control, Environment, Exotic plants, Habitat, Habitat Management, Invasive plants, Landscapes, Lawns, Native habitat, Native landscapes, Native plants, Non native plants, Preserving biodiversity, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat
Value of Natural Biodiversity Services
Biodiversity can seem to be a complicated issue. The seeming complexity can be furthered by oversimplification leading to misunderstanding at one point, and the exaggeration of the complexity at another. Nowhere is this more evident than in the valuation of biodiversity services. Biodiversity services, that is, natural biodiversity services as opposed to human efforts to [...]
September 28, 2008
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Tags: Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Green services, Natural biodiversity services, Preserving biodiversity, Valuing biodiversity services · Posted in: Biodiversity and pest control, Biodiversity Services, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Exotic Vegetation Management, Green services, Invasive species, Native habitat, Natural biodiversity services, Nature, Pest control, Preserving biodiversity, Valuing biodiversity services
Environmental Services |Exotic Vegetation Management
Environmental Services: Exotic Vegetation Management It’s a fact of life. Plants move. They migrate from one area to another using a bewildering variety of locomotion methods. Sometimes they travel by hitch hiking on people or animals, sometimes by wind or water, but travel they do. If there is an invasive plant in your area, the [...]
September 7, 2008
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Tags: Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Green services, Habitat Management · Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Exotic Vegetation Management, Green services, Habitat, Habitat Management, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native habitat, Native plants, Non native plants, Wildlife habitat
East Texas Environmental Services | Pests and Predators
Tyler East Texas Environmental Services: Pests and Predators Even in the best of habitats, unwanted insects and predators can become a problem. Although a well constructed, well managed habitat, using best practices will lower the chances of unwanted infestations, they do sometimes happen. For such cases, we offer pest prevention information, and services as well [...]
September 6, 2008
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Tags: Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Pests, Predators · Posted in: Backyard habitat, Biodiversity Services, Bugs and weeds, Environmental services, Green pest control, Native habitat, Pests, Predators
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 [...]
September 3, 2008
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Tags: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Mosquito Control, Nature, Pest prevention · Posted in: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Biodiversity, Environmental services, Malaria, Mosquito Control, Mosquitoes, Native habitat, Native plants, Public Health, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat
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 [...]
September 3, 2008
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Tags: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, DIRECT approach · Posted in: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Biodiversity, DIRECT aproach, Habitat Management, Habitat requirements, Native habitat, Native plants, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat
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, [...]
September 3, 2008
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Tags: Add new tag, Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Bird sanctuary, Invasive plants, Native plants, Non native plants, Water feature · 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
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 [...]
September 2, 2008
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Tags: Chinaberry, Exotic plants, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Japanese Silk Tree, Privet, Wisteria · Posted in: Biodiversity, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native habitat, Native plants, Non native plants, Shrubs, Trees, Vines, Water
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 [...]
August 31, 2008
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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
Backyard Habitat Project Shrubs, Vines And Other Plants
The dominiant species of the understory for this project is American Beutyberry, others include: American beutyberry Callicarpas americanis Muscadine Vitis Rotundifolia Summer Grape Vitis aestivalis Peppervine Ampelopsis arboria Wax Myrtle Myrica cerifera
August 19, 2008
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Tags: Shrubs, Vines · Posted in: Backyard habitat, Biodiversity, Cover, Native habitat, Native plants, Shrubs, Vines, Wildlife habitat