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Habitat Network: Find Out How Your Lawn Measures Up
Based on a Calfornia ordinance that limits the size of lawns, Habitat Network offers some alternatives for a species-rich backyard.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Connectivity in the Yard
Habitat Network address how yards can positively contribute to the overall landscape matrix sharing some ideas about how to see a backyard as a part of the greater whole.
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Habitat Network: Creating Vernal Pools
Learn the importance of creating vernal pools for habitat diversity.
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Habitat Network: An Introduction to Habitat Connectivity
Find out about the idea that landscape connectivity is a critical concept in ecology.
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Habitat Network: Climate and Habitat: What They Have to Do With Each Other
Find out what climate and habitat have to do with each other as it relates to the diversity of an ecosystem.
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Habitat Network: Health & Happiness
Learn about the idea that personal well-being, as well as the well-being of the neighborhood, were positively related to the diversity of birds and density of plants.
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Habitat Network: Pavement or Gravel
Find out how gravel and pavement can be beneficial to a backyard ecosystem.
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Habitat Network: The (Un)importance of Lawn
Find out why it is important to grow more than just a lawn full of grass in a backyard habitat.
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Habitat Network: Brush Piles
Find out why brush piles are beneficial to a habitat.
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Habitat Network: With Your Neighbors
Habitat Network challenges citizen scientists to organize their communities as a positive force for birds.
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Habitat Network: Freedom to Move
See how neighborhoods are working together to have cumulative positive impacts for birds.
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Habitat Network: Cats in the Wildlife Garden: Can They Have Cake and Catio Too?
Habitat Network offers one solution to having an indoor or outdoor cat- a cat patio, or catio.
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Habitat Network: Planning Tool: Let Us Analyze Your Map So You Can Set Goals
Habitat Network is encouraging citizen scientists to fill out characteristics for backyard sites. They will analyze individuals' maps and give credit for taking certain actions.
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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: 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.