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Attracting Wildlife to Your Back Yard

A Guide to Increasing Wildlife Diversity and Aesthetic Value Around Your Home

by Chris Grondahl

Nongame and Watchable Wildlife Program
North Dakota Game and Fish Department

Grondahl, Chris.  1999.  Attracting Wildlife to Your Back Yard: A Guide to 
     Increasing Wildlife Diversity and Aesthetic Value Around Your Home.  North 
     Dakota Game & Fish Department Nongame and Watchable Wildlife Program.  
     46 pages.    

Grondahl, Chris.  1999.  Attracting Wildlife to Your Back Yard: A Guide to 
     Increasing Wildlife Diversity and Aesthetic Value Around Your Home.  North 
     Dakota Game & Fish Department Nongame and Watchable Wildlife Program.  
     46 pages.  Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online.  
     http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/wildlife/wildback/index.htm 
     (Version 16SEP99).

Table of Contents

• Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
    
• Introduction
• Getting Started
• The Needs of Wildlife
  
  • Food
  • Water
  • Cover and Space
• Landscape Planning
  • Setting Your Personal Goals and Priorities
    
  • Producing a Drawing of the Property
    
  • Developing a Planting and Component Plan
    
  • Choosing and Planting Components
    
  • Maintaining Your Plan
    
• Wildlife Problems
  
  • Profiles, Problems, and Solutions
    
    • Squirrels
      
    • Bats
      
    • Mice and Voles
      
    • Rabbits and Hares
      
    • Snakes
      
    • Birds
      
    • Pocket Gophers
      
    • Skunks
      
    • Raccoons
      
    • Deer
      
    • Cats
      
    • Insects

  Appendices

  • Appendix A. -- Trees, Shrubs, Vines and Ground Cover Recommendations for North Dakota -- Provided by North Dakota State Forest Service
    
  • Appendix B. -- Additional Butterfly Information
    
  • Appendix C. -- Native Plant Seed Sources and Information for the Northern Great Plains
    
  • Appendix D. -- Gardening Around Deer
  • Appendix E. -- Sources of Further Assistance
  • Appendix F. -- References & Resources

  Figures

  • Figure 1 -- Landscape Drawing
    
  • Figure 2 -- Finished Landscape Drawing
    
  • Figure 3 -- Wild Yard Certificate
    
  • Figure 4 -- Wild Yard Application

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