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Attracting Birds To Your Garden With Birdfeeders And Birdhouses

20 March 2013

Planning On Setting up a Bird Feeding Station In Your Garden? If you really appreciate how beautiful birds are and would like to look at them up close in nature, you need to learn the techniques that birdwatchers use – making themselves unobtrusive as they get close to watch them. If you don’t have that [...]

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In Praise Of Birds

3 February 2013

A Few Words In Praise of Birds Birds can soar overhead and they can cover great distances. They are privy to a “bird’s eye view” of a single building, a park, an entire city or landscape, making them a perfect metaphor for obtaining a fresh perspective on a situation, or for taking a larger view [...]

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Binoculars for Butterfly Watching

26 January 2013

One thing bird watchers and butterfly watchers have in common is binoculars. Of course, the butterflies can be harder to see if you want to see something as small or smaller as a hummingbird. Binoculars, unfortunately, may be a challenge to choose. Every person will need a set that is best for that individual. If [...]

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Native Landscaping

24 July 2012

Natural native landscaping is the only way to go if you want an interesting garden About 50 years ago, to say that something was “natural” was kind of bad. After centuries of living with the natural, people were excited about having a say. If for instance, your garden was full of exotic plants from Japan [...]

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About Water Pollution

23 April 2012

This year, my school has had the theme of water. We have studied the water cycle, learned about water resources and most recently, read about water pollution. I used to picture water pollution as a pretty simple phenomenon. I thought most of it was industrial pollution dumped into the waterways where it would kill fish, [...]

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Amazon Rain Forest

16 December 2011

The demise of the Amazon rain forest is just a breath away At 2.6 million square miles, the South America’s Amazon rain forest is a little less than the size of the United States. It is fringed by Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, but 70% is within Brazil. The Amazon River [...]

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Ladybug Insect

20 October 2011

A Ladybug’s Got to Eat! Protect your Garden with the Super Pretty Ladybug Insect Eating Machine If only all good things came in such pretty packages; the ladybug insect happens to be one of the prettiest ways anyone could think of to adorn their garden. Few things can cheer people up the way these industrious [...]

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Rainwater Collection Systems

19 October 2011

Something that is not really new, but may be new to you, is to collect rainwater for later use. People have been capturing and using rainwater for a long time, but today you can find systems that are more complex and useful than ever before. Most people use barrels to gather rainwater, but you can [...]

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Causes of Soil Erosion

25 August 2011

Soil erosion is a serious environmental problem that affects everyone from the industrial farmer to the small, private gardener. Although soil does naturally erode over time, usually there are other forces in play which replenish the soil. Rocks gradually wear down through wind and rain into fresh soil which replenishes that which is washed away [...]

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Attract Birds

25 August 2011

Finding Ways to Attract Birds to your Garden To a lover of nature and of birds, there are only a few sights that are more charming than the one of having birds in one’s garden, flitting and chirping about. If you are anxious for the best way to have birds look on your garden as [...]

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Camping Trips

13 July 2011

Camping Trips for those who like Landscaped Wilderness When a friend mentions that they are going camping over the weekend, what kind of images does that statement throw up in your mind – finding a patch of grass by a pond in the woods to pitch a tent in, finding a quiet spot somewhere to [...]

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Window Bird Feeders

29 June 2011

I know a lot of people who like birds, and most of them love to feed them in one way or another. Most have birdfeeders that hang from a tree, or they scatter seed outside when there is snow on the ground for the birds that have stuck around for the winter. However, there are [...]

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Wildlife Habitats

26 September 2010

Earth Wildlife Habitats and the their Ecosystems In recent years, much emphasis has been placed on environmental conservation. Wildlife habitats have not been spared from this on-going destruction of natural environment by mankind. A large number of animal and plant species are already on the endangered list and many continue to be added. In addition [...]

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Bug Control

20 September 2010

Bug Control Options if the Frightening Side Effects of Regular Repellents Concerns You What with the terrible news abroad of all the dengue fever occurrences in Florida? There are many who are very worried about how best to secure themselves and their families. The thing about bug control with mosquitoes is that these insects completely [...]

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Grow Organic

5 September 2010

Could Farms that Grow Organic Feed the World? Does organic food have to be trendy, upscale and precious? Does it always have to be about taking your BMW down to Whole Foods for something as unlikely sounding as artisan fromage for money that could essentially feed your family for a whole day? I once happened [...]

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Freshwater Fish

5 September 2010

Saving our freshwater fish population is an essential environmental issue! Freshwater fish live in just 0.1 percent of the earth’s water. There are about 30,000 different species of fish that live in lakes and rivers, sharing their habitat with amphibians, crocodiles, mussels and snails. Over half of the 573 species in the United States that [...]

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