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It Starts in Your Yard: Community Wide Habitat Restoration One Yard, One Neighborhood, One Community at a Time
This participatory presentation explores ways to restore your yard, focusing on the relationships between native plants, birds, bees and butterflies, going beyond the typical pollinator garden to first research and then replant the larger native ecosystem. Then using your yard as a beacon for broader change. We will map successful strategies for restoring your neighborhood, and the broader community, working with partners who share your passion, Wild Ones, the Native Plant Society, Master Gardeners, and Bird City advocates. Because of recent moves, Brian “Fox” Ellis, has transformed three communities, planted 12,000 trees, landscaped several schools, businesses, and a hospital grounds, creating wildlife corridors and an eBird Hotspot.
Fox is currently managing Illinois Audubon Society’s Bird and Butterfly Sanctuary Certification program with the goal of restoring communities across the state. This program is co-sponsored with the Illinois Prairie Chapter of Wild Ones.
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Mennonite Church of Normal, 805 S Cottage Ave, Normal, IL 61761-4326, United States
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