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Useful Bird Websites
-The Bluebird Project
-Bird Friendly Coffee
-3BillionBirds
Videos
-Bird Banding at Rushton Woods Preserve
Articles
-Be a Bird Savvy Consumer
-Northern Saw-whet Owl Story Map
Useful Bug Websites
-Firefly Watch
-Butterflies and Moths of North America
Videos
-The Loves and Lies of Fireflies
Articles
-Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden
NATIVE PLANTS
Here is our curated list of great sources and staff favorites to get you started learning about, buying, and planting natives:
Online Native Plant Marketplaces
-Izelplants.com
-Prairienursery.com
-Prairiemoonnursery.com
-North Creek Nurseries
(wholesale only but great for researching plants)
Summer Reading List
- Bringing Nature Home, by Doug Tallamy
- The Living Landscape, by Doug Tallamy and Rick Darke
- Nature’s Best Hope, by Doug Tallamy
- Noah’s Garden, by Sara Stein
- The Backyard Parables, by Margaret Roach
Local Landscape Companies
- Larry Weaner Landscape Associates
- Green Weaver Landscapes
- Brian O’Neil with Weeds, Inc.
- Land Stewards: Ecological Landscape Design
- Refugia
- Lupine
- Weeds Inc.
