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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: 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: Freedom From Danger
Learn how minimizing pesticide-use can maximize diversity in a backyard habitat.
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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: 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: Planning Tool: Understanding How Actions Are Awarded
With this Habitat Network planning tool, set goals, complete action steps, and reach community outcomes for a more diverse ecosystem.
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Habitat Network: Explore
View images of a variety of habitats, check-out custom local resources, and get inspired by featured habitat sites.
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Habitat Network: Seeds, Glorious Native Seeds
A guide to finding the right seeds for a particular backyard habitat.
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Habitat Network: 8 Reasons to Plant Something New
Read about eight habitat-enhancing reasons to expand the plant diversity in a backyard.
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Habitat Network: Native Landscaping Makes Sense
Learn why planting native plants helps any backyard habitat and increases biodiversity.
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Habitat Network: Native Flowerbeds
Find out why flowering plants are foundational in the understory of a structurally diverse habitat.
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Habitat Network: Installing and Maintaining a Native Lawn
Learn how the native approach can improve a yard to provide habitat for birds and other wildlife while keeping a grassy open area for recreation.
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Habitat Network: At a Brand New Home
Find out what to do with the habitat of a blank canvas at a new home landscape.
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Habitat Network: On a Median
Find out about the habitat along the sides and medians of millions of miles of roads.
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Habitat Network: Woodland Edges
Find out about the higher bird diversity at the boundary of two habitat types than in either type individually.
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Habitat Network: Wetlands
Find out how to support wetland plants and animals in a backyard habitat.
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Habitat Network: Meadows and Grasslands
Learn how to create a backyard habitat which provides a more meadow-like environment for birds.
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Habitat Network: In Your Yard
Use this guide to create a habitat that attracts and sustains various bird species.
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Habitat Network: Don't Be an Ecological Trap
With the help of some economics metaphors, Habitat Network delves into the scary-sounding "ecological trap" and helps bring it to light.