Attracting Wildlife to Your Backyard by VanBrakle, Josh -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Front Cover Half-Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Disclaimer Acknowledgments PART ONE: BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Chapter 1: Private Landowners and Wildlife: A Vital Connection

The Role of Private Landowners What Are You Going to Do About It?

Chapter 2: What Do Wildlife Need, Anyway?

Food Water Cover A Place to Raise Young Space and Habitat Doesn’t Nature Provide This Stuff?

Chapter 3: Getting Started

Project 1. Make a Property Map Project 2. Complete the Property Checklist Project 3. Figure Out What’s Missing Project 4. Look Beyond Your Borders Project 5. Find Out If Rare Animals or Plants Use Your Land Project 6. Focus on Your Favorite Animals Project 7. Think Small Project 8. Make a Future Property Map

PART TWO: FOCUS ON HABITAT

Chapter 4: Backyards

Project 9. Replace Non-Native Ornamentals with Native Plants Project 10. Rescue Native Plants from Construction Sites Project 11. Decrease Your Lawn with Lawn Feathering Project 12. Account for Lawn-Mowing Regulations Project 13. Go Vertical with Layered Plants Project 14. Install a Bat Box Project 15. Build a Bee Nesting House Project 16. Set Up Birdfeeders Project 17. Recycle an Old Christmas Tree Project 18. Add a Birdbath Project 19. Protect Your Avian Visitors

Chapter 5: Grasslands, Shrublands, and Young Woods

Project 20. Site Your Young Woods Project 21. Combine Adjoining Meadows Project 22. Create Young Woods through Timber Harvesting Project 23. Do a Clearcut (Gasp!) Project 24. Make a Food Plot Project 25. Install a Bluebird Box Project 26. Build a Grouse Drumming Log Project 27. Prune a Wild Apple Tree Project 28. Maintain Your Young Woods Project 29. Protect Ground-Nesting Birds from Mowing and Haying

Chapter 6: Old and Interior Woods

Project 30. Connect Isolated Woods with Corridors Project 31. Learn the Four Types of Wildlife Trees

Wildlife Tree Type 1: Hard Mast Wildlife Tree Type 2: Soft Mast Wildlife Tree Type 3: Wolf Trees Wildlife Tree 4: Cavity Trees

Project 32. Identify and Protect Legacy Trees Project 33. Thin the Woods to Get Growth at Every Level Project 34. Create Small Gaps Project 35. Leave Dead Trees in Place Project 36. Girdle a Tree Project 37. Build a Brush Pile Project 38. Don’t Graze Livestock in the Woods

Chapter 7: Streams

The Three C’s of Healthy Streams

C #1: Clean C #2: Cold C #3: Complex

Chapter 8: Wetlands

Project 50. Find and Mark Your Wetlands Project 51. Buffer Wetlands from Equipment and Development Project 52. Improve Winter Food and Water Supplies by Thinning Seeps Project 53. Install a Wood Duck Nesting Box Project 54. Help a Muskrat Project 55. Build a Pond, Step 1: Purpose Project 56. Build a Pond, Step 2: Site Project 57. Build a Pond, Step 3: Design Project 58. Build a Pond, Step 4: Install Project 59. Build a Pond, Step 5: Maintain

PART THREE: CHALLENGES TO WILDLIFE

Chapter 9: Invasive Plants

Chapter 10: Oh, Deer!

Project 70. Assess Deer Impact with a Simple Visual Assessment Project 71. Stop Feeding Deer Corn Project 72. Take Care with Hinge Cutting Project 73. Keep Deer Out with Tree Tubes Project 74. Keep Deer Out with Deer Fencing Project 75. Hunt (Or Allow Hunting) Project 76. Donate Venison Project 77. Accept Predators

Chapter 11: Keeping Open Space Open

Project 78. Enroll in Your State’s Property Tax Reduction Program Project 79. Get a Conservation Easement Project 80. Plan Your Legacy

PART FOUR: MAKING IT LAST

Chapter 12: Finding Funding

Chapter 13: Monitoring Your Work

Project 87. Keep a Nature Journal Project 88. Do an Egg Carton Observation Project 89. Use Photo Points and Time Lapse Photos Project 90. Learn Bird Calls Project 91. Learn Other Wildlife Signs Project 92. Take Apart an Owl Pellet Project 93. Install Trail Cameras

Night Image Type Detection Zone Trigger and Recovery Time Battery Life Cellular Capability Megapixels I Have My Camera. Now What?

Chapter 14: The Next Generation

Project 94. Turn over Fallen Logs Project 95. Look and Listen for Spring Frogs Project 96. Screen a Nighttime Bug Movie Project 97. Go on an Owl Prowl Project 98. Call a Turkey Project 99. Do a Backyard Scavenger Hunt Project 100. Encourage Free Play Project 101. Involve and Inspire

Beyond the Book State Resources Property Checklist Endnotes