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Like People, wildlife need
Food, Shelter, Water, and Space
to live their lives.
By offering of these elements,
if you build it, they may come.
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| Creating Trans-species Art and sculpture for Wildlife |
| Lynne.Hull@eco-art.org |
For specifics on landscaping for wildlife, growing food and shelter for animals, contact your local nature center or state wildlife department for good information on what animals and birds in your area need.
Make a backyard sculpture to shelter wildlife:
| Lots of birds, insects, and small animals will use a sculptural “logpile” or “stickpile” in your backyard. This one was intended for hibernating butterflies. You can make one out of crisscrossing and overlapping logs, branches and twigs left from pruning or gathered from cleanup. Make it almost any size or shape. Make some small, dense areas but also use and some branches as big as your arm. Leave some openings as big as both your fists at different levels, at the base, near the middle and by the top. Overlapping the ends, log cabin style, works well. To make it sturdier you can wire or screw the ends and overlaps to each other, but you don’t need to. Use your imagination on the shape, and you can trim odd ends off with a saw. |
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 Birdhouse |
Birdhouses need to be exactly the right dimensions on the inside for whatever bird you are trying to attract. Contact your local nature center or state wildlife department to find out what birds live in your area and need houses. Remember, the size of the interior and the size of the hole and the distance of the hole above the floor are Very Important! However, the outside is a good place to indulge your creativity! The birds don’t seem to mind what the outside looks like! |
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Insects like to live under a slab of wood or a log. |
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