Saving the Wakarusa Wetlands: Land Development and the Project to Mitigate its Impact by Dave McDermott, excerpted from the November/December 2010 issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest The bulldozers are getting closer. For two decades, development of a four-lane highway loop around Lawrence, Kansas, has been closing in on the place where I take my lunchtime […]
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What are the short- and long-term effects? Whenever the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the coast of Louisiana is referred to as a tragic event, everyone within earshot nods in agreement. But use the word “catastrophe,” especially as we get farther from the July 15 capping of the well, and
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If all bird watchers simply performed one of these solutions, we would still save the lives of millions of our favorite birds each year. How to Do More for Birds It’s a satisfying feeling to fill the bird feeders in our backyards—seed for the cardinals, blue jays, and tufted titmice; suet for the woodpeckers; thistle
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Check out ten simple ideas to help birds in your own backyard. 10. Create Habitat. There are countless ways to create habitat in your backyard. Perhaps the easiest is to let things “go wild” in one part of your property. Chances are the plants that grown in your “wild” area will be natural sources of
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