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Habitat Network: 8 Reasons to Plant Something New

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about eight habitat-enhancing reasons to expand the plant diversity in a backyard.
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Habitat Network: Increase Canopy Cover by Planting and Maintaining Trees

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out the ecological benefits of filling a backyard habitat with trees.
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Habitat Network: Southeast: Fruit Producing Trees

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why native fruit-producing trees and shrubs are essential components of diverse habitats.
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Habitat Network: Understand Planting Tools: Plant Hardiness Zones vs. Ecoregions

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand what plants to put in the ground that- barring predation or other unforeseen setbacks- will grow and thrive.
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Habitat Network: Get to Know the Plants in Your Yard With These Plant Id Tips

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide that walks through some of our recommended tactics when identifying plants.
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Habitat Network: Pacific Mixed Forest: Fruit Producing Trees

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why native fruit-producing trees and shrubs are essential components of diverse habitats.
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Habitat Network: Northeast and Midwest: Fruit Producing Trees

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why native fruit-producing trees and shrubs are essential components of diverse habitats.
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Habitat Network: California Chaparral: Fruit Producing Trees

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why native fruit-producing trees and shrubs are essential components of diverse habitats.
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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: 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: Living Fences

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what living fences are, and how they increase diversity.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Rocky Mountains: Fruit Producing Trees

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why native fruit-producing trees and shrubs are essential components of diverse habitats.
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Habitat Network: Native Landscaping Makes Sense

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn why planting native plants helps any backyard habitat and increases biodiversity.
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Habitat Network: Native Lawn Ftw! (For the Win)

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the advantages of planting native grasses in a lawn.
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Habitat Network: Desert Cacti: Fruit Producing "Trees"

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why native fruit-producing trees and shrubs are essential components of diverse habitats.
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Habitat Network: Installing and Maintaining a Native Lawn

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Ecological, Practical, Aesthetic Advantages of Wild Shorelines

For Students 9th - 10th
Habitat Network examines what we know about the ecological functioning of shorelines, and makes recommendations for design, planting, and management of these specialized zones.
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Habitat Network: Habitat Network Focal City: Washington d.c.

For Students 9th - 10th
See how this Northeastern city's habitat has developed and changed throughout its history.
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Habitat Network: Announcing: Photo Upload

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about direct photo upload to the Habitat Network crowdsourcing citizen science website.
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Habitat Network: Introduction to the Groups Tool

For Students 9th - 10th
Habitat Network introduces the Groups Tool that helps connect citizen scientists across the country.
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Habitat Network: How to Join and Add a Map to a Group

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how to join a group for the citizen science project, Yardmap by Habitat Network.
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Habitat Network: Snags: Nature's Apartment Complexes

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out why the sometimes hazardous or untidy dead trees are actually quite important to wildlife.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Ozark Trials: Design Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
Design Challenge takes photos of tricky spots in people's yards, like this one in Arkansas, and puts them out there for advice from the professionals at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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