Managing Trees and Public Spaces for Wildlife
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The World Health Organization reports that green spaces in urban areas are essential resources necessary for healthy and sustainable living environments. They allow urban dwellers to connect with nature, which provides measurable physical and psychological benefits. For wildlife, the rate at which natural habitats are being conserved is declining, and there is great potential to provide valuable resources within city and community green spaces. This talk will discuss strategies and ideas for managing trees in public spaces (i.e. parks, recreation spaces, residential areas) for wildlife. Specifically, we will talk about how to promote habitat for birds, bats, pollinators, and other wildlife.
Marne Titchenell is the Extension Wildlife Program Director, with the Ohio State University. She works within the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences in the School of Environment and Natural Resources. She provides a variety of educational programs, workshops, conferences, and publications centered on wildlife ecology and biology, habitat management for wildlife, and managing nuisance wildlife species.
The snag thing works! I left a 2.5 ft diameter, 10 ft tall maple snag in my front yard 5 years ago. Got the stinkeye from a couple neighbors but it covered up with Virginia Creeper and has been habitat for several bird species every year. It's now beginning to crumble so the top portion will need to be taken down soon. The rest can remain for bugs and such and keep putting organic material into the soil for the surrounding plants as it degrades.
Thanks for this. I moved to an acre and filled it with native plants, habitats, ponds, etc. and I've been trying to outsource my motivation and knowledge of doing this elsewhere, but no one seems interested. Please keep educating the masses. I thank you deeply for this video.
You're not alone in this. I have two very small poperties, one I purchased, one I inherited, slowly doing the same with them, and having the same difficulty getting others interested. So many folks have been taught (indirectly, this is never outright stated) that a big manicured lawn is an important sign of respectability, status or something, that it's difficult for them to think about going more natural. Plus ther'ei peer pressure from neighbors and actual rules from HOAs, for the same minguided reasons.
We also need localities to recognize the problem and pass legislation to require public landscaping to include of natives and bar the worst plants on the invasive species list.
We need nurseries to start selling fewer invasives and more native plants to support the wildlife that is present. There are few nurseries close to me that specialize in native plants. In the ones that don't it's rare to find a native plant or even a worker who is familiar with native plants.