Wildlife & Habitat ManagementThe Environmental Stewardship & Management Initiative was launched by Audubon International to help foster environmental stewardship and improve resource management by a wide range of people.
Common Abiotic Problems in Landscapes
Abiotic plant problems are not caused by living pathogens, insects, or other pests but by chemical, physical, and mechanical damage. They can be difficult to diagnose because often multiple factors are involved. To see the new fact sheet in the Commercial Landscape Series, click here.
Managing Roadsides for Bees and Butterflies
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is pleased to announce the release of Pollinators and Roadsides: Managing Roadsides for Bees and Butterflies. These guidelines provide a concise overview of the conservation potential of roadside habitat and offer practical information on how to maximize the value of these areas for pollinators while meeting basic traffic safety requirements.
For more information, click here.
Project Budburst
Join thousands of others in gathering valuable environmental and climate change information from across the country. Project BudBurst engages the public in making careful observations of the phenophases such as first leafing, first flower, and first fruit ripening of a diversity of trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses in their local area.
Next Box Resource Center
This Cornell Lab of Ornithology website includes resources to help people successfully and properly maintain and monitor nesting birds. Learn about different cavity nesting birds, how to build a nest box, protect it from predators, monitor the success of your nest boxes.
