Create Wildlife Habitat. Protect the Environment
This is Part 2 in a series of resources in Conservation Gardening. See Part 1: Sustainability. Managing rainwater where it falls keeps it out of the stormwater system and prevents flooding and soil erosion. The following references will provide you with many ideas for managing rainwater in your garden. Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainably in [...]
What is a Rain Garden? The concept of rain gardens was developed in the late 1980s in Prince Georges County, MD and termed “bioretention”. The idea was to use planted areas as a sponge to soak up polluted stormwater and filter out impurities before allowing the water to slowly be absorbed into groundwater aquifers. Stormwater [...]
Habitat Loss due to Human Action is the Number One Cause of Species Decline We humans have an extraordinary propensity for building new things: shopping centers, malls, condos, office parks, suburban subdivisions, roads, parking lots, etc. This need to have more and more is really not a great situation for the wildlife that were thriving [...]
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