Help Create Wildlife Habitat . . . One Yard at a Time
Submitted by DizzyDaffodil on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 20:25
Help Create Wildlife Habitat . . . One Yard at a Time
For over 30 years, the National Wildlife Federation's Certified Wildlife Habitat™ program has helped to make a place for wildlife in the modern world, while at the same time helping people to connect with the nature around them. The program provides educational materials, practical advice and official certification to homeowners, educational settings, businesses, community groups and entire communities!
To date, they've certified over 75,000 habitat sites - special places that provide the essentials for attracting songbirds, butterflies and other wildlife.
For more information, visit them at National Wildlife Federation
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I LOVE THIS! I have several projects in the works this Spring for my gardens, which I think already qualify, but I'm doing more this year towards making my yard a native habitat. I'm a country girl at heart so I love seeing all the wildlife that enjoys my gardens as much as I do. I'm going to certify mine once I've gotten more of my projects underway or near completion.
Also, I was thinking of certifying my mom's garden (with the sign) as a mother's day gift for her or even a retirement gift - she's retiring at the end of this school year and plans to spend her retirement volunteering at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Her garden is already there as well - she primarily gardens with native plants and is a wildlife nut. She is the neighborhood 'go-to' person with an injured animal - she has nurtured baby sqirrels back into the wild - well, semi-wild - they often come back and will eat out her hands. "Her squirrels" bring their babies back to feed from her feeders and all that. I think she would be quite honored to have her gardens certified.
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Well said Ms. Daffodil
I have been aware of this program since its inception. I utilized the materials available thru the NWF for conducting our PLT and PW workshops in the 1980s. One of the work shop activities we used was to have the participants develop a Wildlife Habitat Plan for their own school sites.
I suspect my yard has long qualified, tho I have never submitted the formal application for certification. I kinda like my landscape to be fuzzy around the edges and this is what is good for indigenous wildlife.
Its not all that hard to create willife habitat in our landscapes, and I bet a whole lot of people here would have yards that qulify for certification.
"He who plants a tree, plants hope" Lucy Larcom
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