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Habitat Network: Black Walnut Resistance, Virginia: Design Challenge
Design challenges take photos of tricky spots in people's yards and put them out there for advice from the professionals at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Check out this tired backyard from Virginia.
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Habitat Network: La Pines: Design Challenge
Design Challenge takes photos of tricky spots in people's yards and puts them out there for advice from the professionals at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Check out this pine straw yard in LA.
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Habitat Network: Need Some Inspiring Design Advice for Your Yard? Submit a Photo
A resource page which explains how to submit a photo of a local backyard for expert design advice.
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Habitat Network: Nature Conservancy and Cornell Lab Partnership
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and The Nature Conservancy comes together to form a partnership that takes YardMap to its next phase: Habitat Network.
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Habitat Network: Planning Tool: Understanding How Actions Are Awarded
With this Habitat Network planning tool, set goals, complete action steps, and reach community outcomes for a more diverse ecosystem.
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Habitat Network: Get to Know Your Habitat Neighbors
Find out how connecting habitats in neighborhoods, counties, and geographic regions is essential in creating viable habitat patches and corridors for wildlife.
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Habitat Network: Wildlife Habitat Category in the Groups Data Visualization
Habitat Network has combined all the vegetatively-complex habitat polygons into categories here.
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Habitat Network: Explore
View images of a variety of habitats, check-out custom local resources, and get inspired by featured habitat sites.
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Habitat Network: Winter Berries for Winter Birds
Find out about the change in diet for many bird species as the seasons change.
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Habitat Network: Seeds, Glorious Native Seeds
A guide to finding the right seeds for a particular backyard habitat.
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Habitat Network: 8 Reasons to Plant Something New
Read about eight habitat-enhancing reasons to expand the plant diversity in a backyard.
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Habitat Network: Native Landscaping Makes Sense
Learn why planting native plants helps any backyard habitat and increases biodiversity.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Logs
Evaluate the importance of a fallen tree in a forest ecosystem.
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Habitat Network: Native Trees and Shrubs
Find out why vegetation such as trees and shrubs play important roles in ecosystems.
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Habitat Network: Abundant Plants, Abundant Wildlife
See how increasing the area covered by plants in a yard or community has many benefits for humans and wildlife.
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Habitat Network: Native Flowerbeds
Find out why flowering plants are foundational in the understory of a structurally diverse habitat.
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Habitat Network: Get to Know the Plants in Your Yard With These Plant Id Tips
A guide that walks through some of our recommended tactics when identifying plants.
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Habitat Network: Get Reel When Mowing
Find out about different mowing options to provide a beautiful lawn which also serves an important ecological purpose.
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Habitat Network: Fen Wetlands
Sometimes called rich fens, find out about these saturated environments that are fed with mineral-rich groundwater and occur at low points or slopes in the landscape where the soil surface is intercepted by the water table.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Evergreens
Learn how evergreen plants, both trees and shrubs have important roles to play in landscaping- from aesthetic to ecological.
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Habitat Network: Installing and Maintaining a Native Lawn
Learn how the native approach can improve a yard to provide habitat for birds and other wildlife while keeping a grassy open area for recreation.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Milkweeds
Find out how milkweed plants foster habitat diversity in a backyard ecosystem.
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Habitat Network: Constant Bloom in Coral Springs: Design Challenge
Design Challenge takes photos of tricky spots in people's yards and puts them out there for advice from the professionals at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Check out this how to help yard in the Everglades become more biodiverse.
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Habitat Network: Native Grasses for Your Native Lawn
Find out how to use native grasses to increase wildlife diversity in a backyard.