The National Wildlife Federation S Guide To Gardening For Wildlife

"This is an excellent overview of how to garden for wildlife."-Library Journal

Featuring over five hundred illustrations and forty tables, this book is a collection of in-depth discussions by a tremendous range of experts on topics related to wildlife and fisheries management in Mississippi. Beginning with foundational chapters on natural resource history and conservation planning, the authors discuss the delicate balance between profit and land stewardship. A series of chapters about the various habitat types and the associated fish and wildlife populations that dominate them follow. Several chapters expand on the natural history and specific management techniques of popular species of wildlife, including white-tailed deer, eastern wild turkey, and other species. Experts discuss such special management topics as supplemental, wildlife-food planting, farm pond management, backyard habitat, nuisance animal control, and invasive plant species control. Leading professionals who work every day in Mississippi with landowners on wildlife and fisheries management created this indispensable book. The up-to-date and applicable management techniques discussed here can be employed by private landowners throughout the state. For those who do not own rural lands but have an interest in wildlife and natural resources, this book also has much to offer. Residents of urban communities interested in creating a wildlife-friendly yard will delight in the backyard habitat chapter specifically written for them. Whether responsible for one-fourth of an acre or two thousand, landowners will find this handbook to be an incalculable aid on their journey to good stewardship of their Mississippi lands.

This informative workbook provides easy steps that every homeowner can take to help restore wildlife habitat in their own backyards and a journal to record their progress. An on-line website and forum (www.habitatjournal.com) provide a means for all wildlife enthusiasts to share their experiences and to help others with what they have learned. Proceeds from the on-line purchase of this book help to support the Habitat Journal website and the Project Backyard Brevard website. **When purchasing this book, scroll through list for postage options. Affordable media mail does not come up by default.

With the emergence of urban and community forestry as the fastest growing part of our pro fession in the last 15 years, the need for a book such as this inevitably developed. The So ciety of American Foresters' urban forestry working group counts 32 or more universities now offering courses in this subject, and the number is growing. For the last several years I have coordinated a continuing education urban forestry course at Rutgers for nonmatriculated students. Registrants have included arborists, shade tree commissioners, landscape architects, city foresters, environmental commissioners, park superintendents, and others whose jobs involve care and management of trees. The course was started by Bob Tate in 1980, around a core of managerial subjects such as in ventories, budgets, and public relations. After Bob left in 1984 to join Asplundh and later to start his own prosperous business in California, the course languished after it exhausted the local market for those subjects.

This informative workbook provides easy steps that every Florida homeowner can take to help restore wildlife habitat in their own backyards and a journal to record their progress. An on-line website and forum (www.habitatjournal.com) provide a means for all wildlife enthusiasts to share their experiences and to help others with what they have learned. Proceeds from the on-line purchase of this book help to support the Habitat Journal website and the Project Backyard Brevard website.

Discusses natural water gardens and wetland ecology, and explains how to plant and maintain different types of backyard wetlands.