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HABITAT ENHANCEMENT
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Why should I create a NWF Certified Wildlife Habitat?
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It's fun! Watching wildlife in action can be fun and relaxing for everyone. Your habitat may attract beautiful songbirds, butterflies, frogs, and other interesting wildlife for viewing from your very own window.
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Curb appeal! Replacing grass lawns with native wildflowers, shrubs, and trees will increase the beauty of your property and provide a nurturing refuge for wildlife.
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Bring wildlife home! Restoring habitats where commercial and residential development have degraded natural ecosystems can be your way of giving back to wildlife.
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Eco-friendly! Gardening practices that help wildlife, like reducing the use of chemicals, conserving energy and water, and composting also help to improve air, water and soil quality.
- Community! Gardening for wildlife can help you share your love of wildlife with your neighbors and help them get involved in creating a home for wildlife.
It only takes a a few simple steps to gain your own certification, in fact you may already have alraedy fullfiled some of the requierments.
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Plants, Bugs, and people all love to eat and providing indiginous reasources will prove to be sustainable and low maintance as well. click for more info.
Water: It's as easy as a bird bath. Water is key to life and using it wisely is as smart investing in your retierment. click for certification requierments Here at lake james when it rains it pours so take a look at this to find out how to capture and save rain water at your home. Link here
Cover: You probably have roof over your head rigth now but where is that humingbird, who loves your wildflowers, suppose to sleep. click for more
Sustainablity: Now that your property is almost ready to be certified help nature do the rest. Click here for your final step
Certify your property: Congratulations your work has paid off and mother nature thanks you. Click here to make it offical
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Meet Me at the Pond
Frogwatch USA is a collaborative effort currently organized by the National Wildlife Federation. The objective of Frogwatch is to monitor the prevalence of various frog species across the country. Monitoring frog populations provides a great deal of insight into the current ecological conditions of an area due to frog’s porous skin and wetland environment. Unlike fish and reptiles which are protected by scales and non-porous skin; frogs will readily absorb any contamination introduced to their environment. Frogs are also a good indicator species due to their life cycle requiring both terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Camp Lake James recognizes the significance of monitoring the health of our ecosystems and has responded by joining the Frogwatch USA team. Throughout the month of April the staff of Camp Lake James will be exploring our local frog populations and preparing to monitor Hully Gully Pond. Beginning in May we will be inviting any Camp Lake James member to join us in collecting data. This will be a great opportunity to learn more about what frog species inhabit the area, as well as providing valuable information for a national ecological survey. This experience will offer members a greater appreciation for the variety of species that are happy to call Camp Lake James their home.
For more information on Frogwatch USA, log on to frogwatch. If you have any questions regarding the Camp Lake James Frogwatch program, contact activites@camplakejames.com or stop by the social hall and ask any of the Camp Lake James staff.
For those of you interested in learning more about our local frog species on your own, simply click on one of the species listed below to read more about them and even listen to their call. Being able to distinguish which species you are hearing is vital to collecting data for Frogwatch USA. The list of species below should encompass all of the frogs found in the Camp Lake James area.
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