Nature in Your Backyard: Landscaping to Attract and Support Wildlife

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About the Nature in Your Backyard Series 

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Owners of even just a few acres can make a positive difference in their environment through planning and implementing simple stewardship practices learned in The Nature in Your Backyard Series. This series of six online webinars and two field sessions is designed specifically (but not exclusively) for smaller landowners, with under 20 acres. Woodlots large and small can support wildlife, protect water quality, generate firewood and other forest products, and provide recreation and enjoyment. Whether you are interested in adding some native plants to your yard, enhancing habitat for birds, assessing the health of your trees, cutting trees for firewood, or just learning more about what’s around you, this series can help you become a better steward of your property. 

About this Session

“An abundance of wildlife” is one of the best indicators of an ecologically well-designed landscape. By understanding how pollinators, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians select their habitats during each season of the year, we can design landscapes that effectively attract and support a diversity of wildlife. This presentation will provide practical methods for how to design your landscaping to attract and benefit a diversity of wildlife species. Click here to register.

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Matt Tarr

Wildlife Habitat State Specialist, UNH Cooperative Extension

Matt Tarr is Extension Professor & State Wildlife Habitat Specialist for the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension.  Matt works throughout NH in close partnership with the NH Fish & Game Department and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service to assist private landowners and communities improve habitat for wildlife. His specialties include habitat requirements of New England wildlife, improving forested wildlife habitat through commercial timber harvesting, field management to benefit vertebrate & invertebrate wildlife, shrubland and young-forest habitat ecology & management, wetlands wildlife ecology, invasive plant ecology, and bird ecology & identification. 

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