Designing Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Title: Designing Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat
Location: 4501 Woodway Drive Houston, TX 77024-7708
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Description: n this informative and interactive workshop, the Arboretum’s conservation director, Joe Blanton, will teach you how to evaluate your existing yard and implement minor changes so it qualifies 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 input by the instructor and fellow participants. Tools available online will be demonstrated as well as an interactive DVD from the book Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife by Kelly Conrad.
Registration is limited to 12.

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.

Date:

Sunday, February 13, 2011: 2 – 5 p.m.

Cost:

$35 for members, $45 for non-members
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2011-02-13
End Time: 17:00