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Top 7 Garden for Wildlife Questions, Answered
A diverse variety of native plants will benefit your garden in many ways.During Garden for Wildlife Month we heard from many of you with questions about creating the best wildlife-friendly gardens....
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Functional Decor for the Wildlife Garden
You can create a wildlife-friendly garden that provides birds, butterflies and other backyard wildlife with the four components of habitat: food, water, cover, and places to raise their young. These...
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Eliminating Snakes in Your Yard
As National Wildlife Federation Naturalist, I frequently get questions from folks about “getting rid of” wildlife in their yard. Especially snakes. Unfortunately, most of the advice you can find online...
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8 Tips to Protect Baby Turtles in Your Yard
Last June, Ellen Lambeth and Greg Hudson, fellow staffers here at National Wildlife Federation who work on Ranger Rick magazine, had a pretty awesome wildlife sighting. While Ellen was heading to the...
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Nuts for Wildlife
When we think of autumn, the first image that comes to mind is colorful leaves falling from the trees. Leaves, however, aren’t the only thing falling in the fall. This is the season of the nut as well,...
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What to do With Fallen Leaves
You shouldn’t feel obligated to rake up every last leaf in your yard this fall. Leave leaves on the ground — they have a lot of benefit to wildlife and your garden. Below are some tips on how to...
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Seven Red Birds for the Holidays
Red is a color associated with Christmas, Yule and the winter holiday season in general. Here in North America, we don’t have too many wildlife species that are red. There are a few reptiles that have...
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Frogs That Freeze Solid
Wood frog. Photo credit: Brian Gratwicke/Flickr Creative Commons.Different animals use different strategies to survive winter. Some species migrate south, others grow thick coats, and some fatten up or...
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Six Ways to Save Monarchs
Monarch butterflies are in trouble. Over the last few decades, populations of these iconic orange and black butterflies have declined by over 90 percent. The National Wildlife Federation is teaming up...
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Finding a Fawn: What To Do
Every springtime, the National Wildlife Federation gets numerous emails and phone calls from concerned people asking the following question: “I found an abandoned fawn! Where can I take it?” The answer...
View ArticleStudents at NWF Eco-School Help Monarchs
Click here to view the embedded video. It doesn’t get more heartwarming than this. Students at PS 179 in Brooklyn are learning about the life cycle of monarch butterflies and helping this declining...
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Take the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
The National Wildlife Federation is joining with dozens of conservation and gardening organizations as well as seed groups to form the National Pollinator Garden Network and launch a new nationwide...
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10 Ways to Save Pollinators
Pollinators are in decline worldwide. You can help save them. Photo Credit: Julie ChenPollinators are in trouble. These important wildlife move from plant to plant while searching for protein-rich...
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Five Ways of Making Your Lawn Better
Fall is a great time to get your yard ready for the next growing season. The cooling temperatures often make working outside less taxing, and some of the late-blooming plants in your yard provide a...
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Gifts That Help Wildlife
With the holiday shopping season upon us, here are some gifts ideas from our new Garden for Wildlife Gift Guide catalog that will help attract birds, butterflies and other wildlife to your yard or...
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Six Sustainable Ways to Maintain a Natural Garden
The National Wildlife Federation has been educating and empowering people to create wildlife-friendly gardens through the Garden for Wildlife program since 1973. Each of us can help support local...
View ArticleQUIZ: What’s Your Wildlife Personality?
To celebrate the National Wildlife Federation’s March Membership Month, we’re inviting you to discover which amazing wildlife species channels your inner self by taking our quiz. We all have a wild...
View ArticleHow Much Do You Know About Monarch Butterflies?
Spring has arrived and monarch butterflies are on the move. Soon they will arrive in our grassland prairies, meadows and backyard habitats. But how much do you know about these garden visitors? Find...
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New Book Captures Stunning Wildlife Migrations
Right now neotropical birds and monarch butterflies are on the move, migrating from their winter grounds in Mexico, Central or South America to their breeding grounds here in North America. Renowned...
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Answers to Your Wildlife Gardening Questions
It’s Garden for Wildlife Month! This is a special time of the year to rally gardeners, wildlife lovers and anyone interested in going the extra mile for local birds, butterflies and other wildlife....
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