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Habitat Network: Tips for Photographing Landscaping Beautifully
Habitat Network encourages members to get in the habit of regularly photographing their sites, often yards, twice a year.
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Habitat Network: Adding a Rain Barrel to Your Property
Learn about rain barrel basics, and find inspiration in other people's incorporation of this tool into a site.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Bare Earth for Native Pollinators
Find out why keeping a part of your yard as bare ground is important for providing nesting habitat for native bees.
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Habitat Network: Leaf Litter
Leaf-litter plays many important ecological roles. Find out some of the ways leaves are secretly at work in your gardens and parks.
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Habitat Network: Installing Cover Boards for Reptiles
Learn how to provide a cover board for reptiles who generally prefer drier conditions.
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Habitat Network: Installing Cover Boards for Amphibians
Find out how to make a cover board for Amphibians' dual life-cycle of aquatic and terrestrial stages.
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Habitat Network: Freedom From Danger
Learn how minimizing pesticide-use can maximize diversity in a backyard habitat.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Bee Houses
Find out what bees and bee hives can bring to a backyard habitat.
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Habitat Network: Support Turtles: A Goal for Your Site?
Find out how a common backyard habitat can become a welcome habitat site for turtles.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Nesting Materials
Learn that of the best parts of providing habitat for birds in a yard is the possibility of being chosen as a nesting site.
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Habitat Network: Nest Boxes, a.k.a Birdhouses
Learn about the importance of bird house boxes in backyard habitats.
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Habitat Network: Vernal Pools Connect Otherwise Isolated Habitats
See how the change in weather and precipitation creates vernal pools and a connection of isolated habitats.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Shelter for Reptiles and Amphibians
Find out why creating and conserving habitat for amphibians and reptiles is important.
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Habitat Network: Living Fences
Find out what living fences are, and how they increase diversity.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Network Focal City: Washington d.c.
See how this Northeastern city's habitat has developed and changed throughout its history.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Network Focal City: Boston, Ma.
See how this coastal city's habitat has developed and changed throughout its history.
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Habitat Network: Support Dragonflies: A Goal for Your Site?
Find out why dragonflies are beneficial to a backyard habitat.
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Habitat Network: Manage Water: A Goal for Your Site?
Find out how to set goals and manage water for a local backyard habitat.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Sun Perches
See why many species use perches near their water source to take in the sun's warmth.
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Habitat Network: Amazing Animals That Use Vernal Pools
Find out about species that use vernal pools for reproduction and continuity of life.
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Habitat Network: Rocky Mountains: Fruit Producing Trees
Find out why native fruit-producing trees and shrubs are essential components of diverse habitats.
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Habitat Network: The Great Backyard Bird Count Group
Show off a local wonderful habitat by joining the Great-Backyard-Bird-Count group, and put the bird count data on your map.
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Habitat Network: Adding Bird Sightings to Your Habitat Map
By mapping a local habitat, people are providing the Cornell Lab of Ornithology citizen science program with invaluable habitat information in regards to bird diversity.
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Habitat Network: Black Walnut Resistance, Virginia: Design Challenge
Design challenges take photos of tricky spots in people's yards and put them out there for advice from the professionals at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Check out this tired backyard from Virginia.