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            Colorado Wildscapes
            
Bringing Conservation Home
            
           
by
Audubon Colorado

            Softcover 88 Pages  8x10

           

           

              
           

   
 

National Audubon's initiative to bring conservation to each home and landscape is being implemented in Colorado with Audubon At Home's Colorado Wildscapes. This is a statewide habitat gardening guide that promotes:

  • planting for year-round interest and wildlife habitat diversity,
  • conserving water supplies by choosing waterwise plant selections,
  • creating a healthy yard - a refuge for people as well as wildlife - by reducing pesticide usage, thus protecting water supplies,
  • and selecting native plant species and removing invasive ones.

Audubon At Home is really a program for optimists – Colorado gardeners for sure – who believe that the actions they do can have a positive impact on the world around them. Colorado Wildscapes presents, in easy-to-do steps, backyard stewardship known as wildscaping – creating healthy, diverse habitats that feed, shelter and nurture wild creatures. Wildscaping builds healthy communities – both human and wild – by nurturing the natural webs of interconnected lives, from tiny ants to shimmering dragonflies and brilliant Western Tanagers.

Colorado Wildscapes also highlights the stories of Habitat Heroes – people throughout Colorado who are transforming their ordinary landscapes into wildscapes that support a diversity of wildlife. Since the habitat guide is a statewide approach, a regional wildlife-friendly native plant lists is included in the guide.

Primary Contributors are:

Award-winning author and commentator Susan J. Tweit is a field ecologist who is in love with life in all its diverse forms. Her eight books include Rocky Mountain Garden Survival Guide, an easy-to-use primer on how gardens work.

Jim Knopf is a landscape architect specializing in Rocky Mountain Xeriscape design and author of Waterwise Landscaping with Trees, Shrubs & Vines: A Xeriscape Guide for the Rocky Mountain Region, California and Desert Southwest.

Susie Mottashed is a nature illustrator and author who teaches nature journaling workshops based on her new book, Who Lives In Your Backyard?

 

 

 

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