Written by the founder of Project Backyard Brevard.

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Product Description

If you love the sight of birds and butterflies or want to help restore wildlife habitat, The Wildlife Habitat Journal is for you! Instruction manual, workbook, and journal, this delightful little book suggests steps to attract garden wildlife and pages to record your progress. Plant lists are provided for birds, butterflies and hummingbirds with suggestions for further research. If you have already discovered the joys of sharing your property with wildlife, this journal will help you become more proficient. By recording the events that occur in your yard, you will learn which plants are most favored. You will know when to expect butterflies if you record the dates that you first see a chrysalis. You will know when to re-hang feeders if you record when the hummingbirds first appear. We are all still in the learning stage when it comes to sharing our landscapes with wildlife. As we learn what works, this journal provides the opportunity to record what we learn and to share it with others.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1460590 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 116 pages

From the Publisher
Owning a home has long been the American Dream. But with that dream comes a huge responsibility. Since development is seen as one of the greatest factors contributing to the extinction of wildlife on this planet, the term "home ownership" now needs to carry with it the added role of "habitat ownership."

Every homeowner, whether their home was built last week or decades ago, can share in this role by focusing on their own share of the environment. All it takes is for each property owner to make a few simple changes to help in restoring wildlife habitat in their own yard.

Something as simple as planting a native tree for local bird nesting, creating a butterfly garden or choosing to leave a small corner of a yard native instead of opting for 100% lawn helps to restore some of the wildlife habitat that was displaced by a home. As development continues, these preserved habitat areas will become more and more important as safe havens for displaced wildlife.

As more and more people begin to accept their role in environmental stewardship, habitat areas will go from being distant oases to nearby stepping stones to connected paths for animals to traverse across an increasingly developed landscape.

Can taking care of "your own share" of the environment really make a difference? Some people think it is naive to believe that creating an environmentally friendly landscape will make a difference. But the truth is it is naive to think that it won't. If each resident planted one native tree, or quit using chemicals so that they could attract birds or butterflies, or even just adjusted their sprinkler heads to quit wasting water, the environment would benefit. Keeping a Wildlife Habitat Journal helps to prove just how quickly those actions DO make a difference.

From the Author
Although loss of wildlife habitat is seen as one of the greatest factors contributing to the extinction of wildlife on the planet, Franz believes that getting people to really "get to know" the wildlife in their yards might just change all that.

"Someone once told me that the secret to getting people to appreciate nature is to get them to get down and take an eye-to-eye look at it. From my own experience, I know that is true. I see it happen with people all the time. Once people start gardening for wildlife and begin to really LOOK at it - whether it is with a butterfly garden or planting for birds or creating a backyard pond, they seem to gain a whole new appreciation for the wildlife and a whole new sense of responsibility to the environment. They become backyard naturalists without really realizing they are doing it. As more and more people become these do-it-yourself naturalists, it is bound to help the environment."

The Wildlife Habitat Journal was written to encourage people to take that eye-to-eye look.

"It's easy to feel awe when you are in Yellowstone National Park or Muir Woods. But getting people to feel that same way in their own back yards - now that's a challenge."

About the Author
Betsy Franz is the founder of Project Backyard Brevard and the Habitat Helpdesk - environmental projects which help to encourage and educate property owners to take care of "their share" of the local environment. She is a frequent contributing writer to many popular magazines and continues to work on publications which encourage readers to take a closer look at the environment around them. Her latest publication is Wonders Never Cease: Restoring the Wonder in Your Life by Exploring the Nature Around You

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Customer Reviews

Great workbook for wildlife garden newbies
Somebody in our garden club found this journal and now we all have one! The journal format makes it perfect for us to learn about creating butterfly and wildlife gardens. It is so easy for us to get together and compare notes about what is working to bring the birds, butterflies and hummers to our gardens! We even plan to start using our journals to teach other people about the fun of gardening for wildlife!