Make a Home for Wildlife: Creating Habitat on Your Land Backyard to Many Acres

Make a Home for Wildlife helps you see your property in new ways and is the resource you need to take the sometimes daunting steps to make food and hiding cover for many different kinds of wildlife, including pollinating insects, reptiles and amphibians, birds and mammals.Whether you live on a quarter-acre lot in the suburbs, own a 20-acre woodland retreat, run a farm of 100 acres, or belong to an outdoor club with hundreds or thousands of acres, you can make changes to the land that will improve it for wildlife. Habitat projects can be simple or complex, short-term or spanning decades. Cost can be minimal, a few hours of your time spent doing pleasant work in the outdoors, or can run into the hundreds or thousands of dollars.Focusing on the eastern U.S. from Canada to Florida and west to the Great Plains, this book describes basic habitat types--forest, shrublands, grasslands, and wetlands--and highlights select native and introduced trees, shrubs, and plants and explains how they are used (or not) by wildlife.Fergus relates intriguing stories of landowners who have made habitat in different states and regions and in different ways.The book also includes beautifully written "Wildlife Sketches," as well as informative tables and diagrams. Read more