Create Your Own Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Submitted by: Margie Klein (Conservation Educator, NDOW)

Would you like to create a haven for wildlife in your neighborhood? Join us for this informative lecture on how to create your own backyard wildlife habitat. You will learn how to provide food, places for cover and to raise young with plant choices, along with how to provide water and sustainable practices for your yard. Open up your yard to the vast world of birds, lizards, beneficial insects and mammals that can make your yard a place to treasure. Learn the steps to take to become certified by the National Wildlife Federation as a Certified Backyard Habitat.

Saturday, March 6th, 9:00-Noon, Workshop is $29. The first half of the workshop will go over habitat elements and the second half will discuss appropriate plants for the Mojave Desert, with a tour of the UNLV arboretum.

For more information, e-mail Michelle.Baker@unlv.edu or call 895-3254. Online registration also available: https://cedwebserver.unlv.edu/CourseStatus.awp?~~101HA1114

** Margie Klein and Paula Garrett are instructors**