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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  Tags: , , , ,   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  2 Comments

Backyard Habitat Help

Backyard Habitat Help
Backyard habitats can be great for the environment, for the entertainment and education of children and adults, for the control of unwanted insect predators like mosquitoes, and for many other less tangible reasons.
Most of the work can be done by the motivated homeowner, but sometimes a little help is needed. we [...]

September 15, 2008  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Education, Environment, Habitat, Habitat Management, Nature, Pests, Uncategorized, Wildlife  No Comments

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  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Habitat Management, Habitat requirements, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat  One Comment

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  Tags: , , , , ,   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  One Comment

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  Tags: , , ,   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  2 Comments

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