Backyard Wildlife Habitat Certification

To learn more about what many people are doing to certify their own backyards as havens for wildlife, click here to be redirected to the National Wildlife Federation's website.

Backyard Landscaping for Wildlife

Landscaping your backyard for the general well being of wildlife and birds is such a hot topic these days, but finding the information can be somewhat daunting.

The Illiana Garden Pond Society will be featuring some articles from the Internet here on this page and will post new ones as they are written. Some of these articles are in Adobe PDF format, so that you can easily print them out for your use.

Other articles are actual links to other sites that have a wealth of information about the backyard landscaping topic.

  1. Our thanks for this article goes to the NebGuide published by the Cooperative Extension, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Ron J. Johnson, Extension Wildlife Specialist and Carl W. Wolf, Outdoor Education Specialist, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission - Backyard Wildlife Planting for Habitat
  2. Our thanks for this article goes to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources - Planting for Wildlife Habitat. If you're interested in how to obtain native plants please see this pamphlet from the US EPA website called the Natural Landscaping Resource List.
  3. Here's another site with great information on the basics to attract birds http://www.wildbirds.org/tips/garden.htm.
  4. We thank Wildlife Web for this native plant information.The following is a variety of native plants and shrubs suitable for almost any backyard:
    http://www.chicagowilderness.org/wildchi/landscape/index.cfm