Backyard Habitats
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Backyard habitats. Build your own so you know it s safe for your feathered friends. We conduct an annual open house and plant swap and offer private tours during the butterfly season may through september. Our community of backyard habitats is over 6000 strong and growing every day.
It provides technical assistance financial incentives encouragement and recognition to people that want to create. Supporting urban and sub urban gardeners in portland gresham fairview lake oswego as they enhance wildlife habitat in their own backyards. A brand new program from cornell lab of ornithology makes it easier than ever to set specific goals for your backyard habitat.
On request nwf will send you an application package and instructions for its backyard wildlife habitat program. The backyard wildlife habitat program is a program of the national wildlife federation that encourages homeowners in the united states to manage their gardens and yards as a wildlife garden with the goal of maintaining healthy and diverse animal habitats and ecosystems the program began in 1973. Ever since i started gardening i have wanted to also invite others to share the space and create a backyard wildlife habitat for all.
By 1998 it had impacted more than 21 000 yards and as of 2006 has certified over 60 000. Essentially you need to ensure your garden meets all their basic needs. The intent of the backyard habitat certification program bhcp is simple.
Assisting fellow members of our community in creating backyard habitats is the third essential part of our mission. All backyard wildlife habitats should include a birdhouse or two. Our program area we currently work with sites smaller than one acre throughout much of urban and suburban clackamas clark multnomah and washington counties.
Good birdhouses don t have perches those allow easy access for predators and should be cleaned out after each nesting season so they don t harbor mites or disease. A backyard habitat provides food water safe shelter and nesting spaces for wildlife. Ashley hjenssen6 to create a better backyard habitat you need less of these.
Plant roots create a habitat transform the world one yard at a time. Turf lawn free roaming cats invasive plants and impervious hardscaping. The national wildlife federation nwf sponsors a certification program designed to help individuals plan and apply a wildlife habitat plan for a home site or small acreage.