Certify Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Title: Certify Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat
Location: Houston Arboretum, 4501 Woodway Drive Houston, TX
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Description: Certify Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Food. Water. Shelter. We all need them to survive. So do wildlife. In this informative and interactive workshop learn how to evaluate your existing yard to see if you qualify for certification by Texas Parks and Wildlife as a Backyard Wildlife Habitat. Bring along a sketch, diagram or photographs of your backyard and a current plant inventory for critique by the instructor and fellow participants.

Not ready to apply for certification? Need assistance planning your conversion from non-native landscape to colorful wildscape? Various tools found on the internet will be demonstrated as well as the interactive DVD included in the book “Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife, Texas A&M Nature Guides Edition” (2009) by Kelly Conrad Bender.

Upcoming Arboretum native plant sales, book sales and classes on Texas native trees, shrubs and flowering plants will be profiled.

Note: Cost of workshop includes the above mentioned book which contains the interactive DVD resource. The $15 certification fee required by TPWD is not included and this workshop is not endorsed by TPWD. To see more information on the Texas Parks and Wildlife certification process click here

Instructor: Joe Blanton, the Arboretum’s Conservation Director, is certified by National Wildlife Federation as a Backyard Habitat Designer. Before joining the Arboretum staff, Joe designed, implemented and/or managed 16 outdoor environmental education classrooms for Urban Harvest and HISD. His latest undertaking has been to become one of the first 100 accredited Green Roof professionals in North America.

Cost: $75 for members, $95 for non-members (includes copy of book: Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife, Texas A&M Nature Guides Edition” (2009) by Kelly Conrad Bender)
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2010-09-19
End Time: 17:00