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Want to add a pond to your backyard? Want to build a better birdhouse? eNature offers handy step-by-step guides to these and other subjects — and they're now all available free online.



Check out these ideas for hands-on projects.



Learn how to build a simple pond.
By Doug Inkley
A backyard pond can be just about as simple or complex as you want it to be.





Advice on how to attract specific wildlife groups.


Variable Checkerspot

Host plants include many members of figwort family (Scrophulariaceae) as well as plantain (Plantago), honeysuckle (Lonicera), snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus), and others.
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Practice resource conservation in your yard.

Grow Natives!
Native plants provide the best diversity of habitat elements for wildlife. read more











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