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Learning How To Make Your Yard Wildlife Friendly

Oct 14, 2008 @ 10:37 pm by Moose

Do you enjoy watching wildlife? There is a free class being offered by North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission on how to turn your yard into the perfect wildlife habitat.

Backyard Wildlife Habitat Workshop Coming to Raleigh
RALEIGH, N.C. (Oct. 9, 2008) – While it is easy to associate wildlife habitat with some remote wilderness, sometimes nature is as close as your backyard. How to encourage and foster neighborhood wildlife is the topic of a free program at the Centennial Campus Center for Wildlife Education in Raleigh on Oct. 25.
“A Backyard Wildlife Habitat Workshop” by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is designed for educators, gardeners and wildlife enthusiasts. The six-hour program, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., will focus on using native plants to attract butterflies, birds, reptiles, amphibians and small mammals. Attendees will learn how to get their backyard or schoolyard certified as a wildlife habitat by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation and the National Wildlife Federation.
Program sessions will include:
• Demonstrations on providing cover and water for wildlife
• Native Piedmont trees, shrubs, grasses and wildflowers and their wildlife benefits
• Site analysis for soil conditions and light, composting and vermiposting
• Garden design, exotic plants and chemicals
Completion of the program coursework gains Environmental Education certification credit in Criteria II and III. Workshop attendance is limited to 20 adults, including high school juniors and seniors.
The Centennial Campus Center for Wildlife Education is located at 1751 Varsity Drive, Raleigh in the headquarters of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission on the Centennial Campus of N.C. State University. For more information, call (919) 707-0207.

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Although I haven’t taken the class myself I certainly try to make my yard wildlife friendly. The photo is of one of the many deer that visit my yard daily. Wildlife I’ve seen in my yard or evidence they’ve been in my yard include; Whitetail deer, cottontail rabbit, red shoulder hawk, red tail hawk, vulture, grey squirrel, red fox, grey fox, coyote, and countless song birds. A wildlife friendly yard gives you opportunity to view wildlife as well as photograph them.

Story & Photo by Dan McLaughlin AKA Moose