Edmonds Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Give Nature A Hand - Stewardship Event & Backyard Wildlife Habitat Open House

 
GIVE NATURE A HAND!
Community Stewardship Event and the Edmonds Backyard Wildlife Habitat Project’s Open House

 
FREE EVENT!

 
Where: May 3 Saturday - 9 am - 1 pm Yost Park

 
If you would like to spend a few hours helping to remove invasive English Ivy and plant evergreen trees in the park, here is your chance. Bring your own gardening tools and gloves. Training, supervision and light refreshments will be provided. Information will be available on recycling, composting, and the Edmonds Backyard Wildlife Habitat Project will host various backyard wildlife information tables and hands-on activities.

To register please call 425-771-0227.

Children under 14 must participate with an adult.

May Community Certification Planning Meeting

Edmonds Backyard Wildlife Habitat Project May meeting

Thursday, May 1st, 7-9pm

 
“Living with or NOT Rats & Mice” with Special Guest, Dave Pehling from the WSU Extension Office

 
7:00- WELCOME! Brief introduction of who we are, our mission statement, our goals & achievements. (Individual Committee Chairs encouraged to speak on recent developments)

 
7:30- Guest speaker Dave Pehling from the WSU Extension will be speaking on rats, mice and other annoying rodents in your back yard or business.

 
8:30- Q&A for Dave

 
9:00- Meeting Adjourned

 

Room 302 at the Frances Anderson Center

Website Update Summary

There have been a few recent updates to the website. Here is a summary of the changes:

 

Calendar Updates:

Integrated the EBWH blog with google calendar API. The calendar on the right side of the front page is now improved to show more details when an item is selected. On the front page, the next 5 events will appear. The Upcoming Events page shows the full list of events. The Calendar items are maintaned on the google calendar related to the edmondsbwh@gmail.com account.

 
Items directly related to the EBWH project are tagged with [EBWH] in the subject.

 
There is also a public rss feed available for viewing the calendar in a RSS aggregator:

http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/rj557t9b5o62n4ropin14u8nec%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic

 

About Page Updates:

Added the Mission Statement and Project Goals/Status to the About Page.

 

Volunteer and Contribute Page:

Added a page for listing Volunteer and Donation needs.

 

Resources Page:

Added a new section for Local Related Project links. Added a couple of new Informative Articles.

 

Videos Page:

Added an official NWF Backyard Habitat informational video.

April Community Certification Planning Meeting

Do you love Butterflies?

If so.. Join us at the next Edmonds Backyard Wildlife Habitat Project meeting on Thursday, April 3rd, Room 302 at the Frances Anderson Center, 7-9pm when our special guest speaker will be David Droppers from the WA Butterfly Assoc./Woodland Park Zoo. David will be discussing “Gardening for Butterflies”.

March Community Certification Planning Meeting

Mark Your Calendarzz!

Edmonds Backyard Wildlife Habitat Project Meeting

Topic: Mason Bees

Frances Anderson Center Room 302