District Department of the Environment Backyard Wildlife Workshop

District Department
epartment of the
Environment
Backyard Wildlife Habitat
Workshop Series
Fall 2010
Design and Build a Unique Backyard Habitat
Focus: The Potomac Gorge Habit
Saturday September 11, 9am
9am-3pm
Palisades Recreation Center,
5200 Sherrier Place, NW
Design and Build a Unique Backyard Habitat
Focus: Gravel Terrace Habitat
Saturday September 18, 9am
9am-3pm
Benning–Stoddert
Stoddert Recreation Center
100 Stoddert Place, SE
Design and Build a Unique Backyard Habitat
Focus: Magnolia Bog Habitat
Saturday Sept 25, 9am-3pm
3pm
Douglass Recreation Center
1898 Stanton Terrace, SE
Gardening for Birds and Butterflies
Saturday October 9, 9am-3pm
9am
Langdon Recreation Center
2901 20th Street, NE
Creating Wildlife Communities in Small Spaces
Wednesday & Friday October 13 & 15
5pm-8pm
Hearst Recreation Center
3600 Tilden Street NW
The Beauty and Bounty of Native Cherry Trees
Saturday October 30, 9am-3pm
9am
North Michigan Recreation Center
1333 Emerson Street, NE
DDOE and DPR are hosting free educational,
ucational, hands-on
hands
workshops to help property owners create unique and
important habitat forr wildlife on their own land.
The workshops will include presentations on conservation
landscaping and gardening for wildlife, plant selection, general
landscape design
esign principles and how to do a site assessment.
Participants will help plant a demonstration garden at the
workshop site, and will receive a habitat kit at the conclusion
of the workshop. The kit will contain a native plant guide, an
invasive plant booklet,
klet, a book on wildlife gardening, a
birdhouse kit and live plants.
Preregistration is required.
For more information about the workshops or to sign up
please visit:
http://ddoe.dc.gov/fisheries and click on “Backyard Habitat
Education”