Take the Wildlife Pledge!

Follow these four easy steps and open your backyard to a wonderful world of wildlife.

1. Grow native plants found in your area, including trees, shrubs, and other plants that offer food such as pollen, nectar, nuts, cones, berries and other seed.
2. Provide water for wildlife with a birdbath,small pond, or shallow dish...or care for a natural spring or stream on or near your habit.
3. Create protective cover for wildlife by growing a meadow, a prairie, densely branched shrubs, when appropriate evergreens. Place hollow logs and rock piles in your yard.
4. Build birdhouses, attached to metal poles and monitor their use. Grow host plants for butterfly and moth caterpillars to eat and provide dense plantings to create safe areas for nesting wildlife

If you haven't already, create a wildlife friendly yard officially certified through NWF's Wildlife Habit program and help us reach our goal of 100,000 certified habits.
To get started, visit www.nwf.org/backyardtoday