CERTIFIED HABITATS WITH NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
The idea is simple: Wildlife depend on plants to provide elements of habitat, specifically the native plants that co-evolved in their ecosystem. By choosing native plants for your landscape or other garden space and by designing and maintaining it in a natural, sustainable way, you can restore habitat for wildlife right around your own home and community.
- Minimum 3 Sources of food (Nectar plant, bird feeder, fruit/berry bush, etc).
- Minimum 1 source of water (Stream, lake, pond, bird bath, etc).
- Minimum 2 sources of shelter (Mature trees, dead trees, logs, ground cover, rock wall , etc.)
- 2 sources of Places to raise young (Trees, shrubs, logs, leaves, grasses, etc.)
- Sustainable practices (Leave the leaves, natural mulch, Compost, turn off lights at night, water conservation, etc.)
By filling your garden and other community open spaces with a selection of native plants, you’re building the foundation of a food web that will eventually attract hundreds of animal species. Adding host plants for native insects, like planting milkweed for monarchs, is a great way to support struggling species. Planting keystone plants that are host to many species, like native oaks, can go even further in increasing the biodiversity of your garden.
When you create a space that provides four essential habitat elements – food, water, cover, and places to raise young – and practice sustainable gardening, the National Wildlife Federation will recognize it as a Certified Wildlife Habitat®.
Download the checklist to get started on your habitat.
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Contact us today to learn more. We can help create your Certified Habitat!
We will create it, register it and install your certified habitat sign!
Nugentsarboriculture@gmail.com
Shamus Nugent – 570-856-1808