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Habitat Network: Habitat Connectivity in the Yard

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the importance of creating vernal pools for habitat diversity.
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Habitat Network: An Introduction to Habitat Connectivity

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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: The (Un)importance of Lawn

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why brush piles are beneficial to a habitat.
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Habitat Network: With Your Neighbors

For Students 9th - 10th
Habitat Network challenges citizen scientists to organize their communities as a positive force for birds.
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Habitat Network: Freedom to Move

For Students 9th - 10th
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?

For Students 9th - 10th
Habitat Network offers one solution to having an indoor or outdoor cat- a cat patio, or catio.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Planning Tool: Let Us Analyze Your Map So You Can Set Goals

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Tips for Photographing Landscaping Beautifully

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about rain barrel basics, and find inspiration in other people's incorporation of this tool into a site.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Bare Earth for Native Pollinators

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Leaf Litter

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to provide a cover board for reptiles who generally prefer drier conditions.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Installing Cover Boards for Amphibians

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how minimizing pesticide-use can maximize diversity in a backyard habitat.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Bee Houses

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what bees and bee hives can bring to a backyard habitat.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Support Turtles: A Goal for Your Site?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how a common backyard habitat can become a welcome habitat site for turtles.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Nesting Materials

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the importance of bird house boxes in backyard habitats.
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Habitat Network: Vernal Pools Connect Otherwise Isolated Habitats

For Students 9th - 10th
See how the change in weather and precipitation creates vernal pools and a connection of isolated habitats.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Shelter for Reptiles and Amphibians

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why creating and conserving habitat for amphibians and reptiles is important.

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