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Habitat Network: Install Edible Gardens

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out the benefits of planting a garden that provides a sustainable source of food for people.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Snags

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how dead trees can be beneficial to a backyard habitat.
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Habitat Network: Take Control of Herbicide Use on Your Property

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's what you need to know to make an informed choice on the best strategy to tackle backyard weeds.
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Habitat Network: Discouraging Mosquitoes and Providing Habitat for Wildlife

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about some wildlife friendly tips for reducing mosquitoes in yards.
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Habitat Network: Build a Hibernaculum

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the hibernation habits of different species, and find out how to provide the conditions for a hibernaculum for some species in your backyard.
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Habitat Network: Investigations Into How to Prevent Deadly Bird Window Strikes

For Students 9th - 10th
Act a community advocate to help commercial properties embrace best practices for decreasing bird-strikes on their large, heavily-glassed buildings.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Making Mud

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how mud puddles in a backyard ecosystem make for a welcome habitat for many species.
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Habitat Network: Find Out How Your Lawn Measures Up

For Students 9th - 10th
Based on a Calfornia ordinance that limits the size of lawns, Habitat Network offers some alternatives for a species-rich backyard.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Connectivity in the Yard

For Students 9th - 10th
Habitat Network address how yards can positively contribute to the overall landscape matrix sharing some ideas about how to see a backyard as a part of the greater whole.
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Habitat Network: Creating Vernal Pools

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the importance of creating vernal pools for habitat diversity.
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Habitat Network: An Introduction to Habitat Connectivity

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the idea that landscape connectivity is a critical concept in ecology.
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Habitat Network: Climate and Habitat: What They Have to Do With Each Other

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what climate and habitat have to do with each other as it relates to the diversity of an ecosystem.
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Habitat Network: Health & Happiness

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the idea that personal well-being, as well as the well-being of the neighborhood, were positively related to the diversity of birds and density of plants.
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Habitat Network: Pavement or Gravel

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how gravel and pavement can be beneficial to a backyard ecosystem.
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Habitat Network: The (Un)importance of Lawn

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why brush piles are beneficial to a habitat.
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Habitat Network: Freedom to Move

For Students 9th - 10th
See how neighborhoods are working together to have cumulative positive impacts for birds.
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Habitat Network: Cats in the Wildlife Garden: Can They Have Cake and Catio Too?

For Students 9th - 10th
Habitat Network offers one solution to having an indoor or outdoor cat- a cat patio, or catio.
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Habitat Network: Tips for Photographing Landscaping Beautifully

For Students 9th - 10th
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: Adding a Rain Barrel to Your Property

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about rain barrel basics, and find inspiration in other people's incorporation of this tool into a site.
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Habitat Network: Leaf Litter

For Students 9th - 10th
Leaf-litter plays many important ecological roles. Find out some of the ways leaves are secretly at work in your gardens and parks.
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Habitat Network: Installing Cover Boards for Reptiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to provide a cover board for reptiles who generally prefer drier conditions.
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Habitat Network: Installing Cover Boards for Amphibians

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how to make a cover board for Amphibians' dual life-cycle of aquatic and terrestrial stages.
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Habitat Network: Freedom From Danger

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how minimizing pesticide-use can maximize diversity in a backyard habitat.

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