Methods B1. Take a walk around your campus or community; this should be at least
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Methods B1. Take a walk around your campus or community; this should be at least ¼ acre in area and up to 1 acre depending on the area you are evaluating. Use the checklist in the Results section to evaluate how well your campus or community provides habitat for wildlife. Your task is to: 1. Assess how well your campus or community provides habitat for wildlife. Rate each section on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest). 2. Make notes on ways to improve this habitat. 3. Below the Results section, keep a list of places in your campus or community where you think the habitat can be improved. Rating Ways to Improve Food (lowest) (highest) Nuts 1 2 3 4 5 Seeds 1 2 3 4 5 Berries 1 2 3 4 5 Nectar 1 2 3 4 5 Insects 1 2 3 4 5 Shelter Thick brush and brambles 1 2 3 4 5 Tall grassy fields 1 2 3 4 5 Woodlands with many layers of plants 1 2 3 4 5 Streams with forested buffers 1 2 3 4 5 Dead standing trees 1 2 3 4 5 Rotting logs on the ground 1 2 3 4 5 Brush piles 1 2 3 4 5 Space (natural habitats) Meadows 1 2 3 4 5 Forests 1 2 3 4 5 Scrub/shrub 1 2 3 4 5 Wetlands 1 2 3 4 5 Streams 1 2 3 4 5 Follow-up C1. Based on your assessment, what improvements to the habitat are most needed? C2. Which improvements to the habitat will be relatively easy? C3. Which improvements to the habitat will be relatively low in cost?
Explanation / Answer
Answer:
Lets make a list of habitats currently you saw/visited in the campus
Grassland habitat, wild life habitat with grasses, rabbit, frogs, turtles, bees, insects, grasshoppers, butterflies, small birds, small lizzard like reptiles, small trees etc.
Nuts- 5
seeds- 5
Berries- 5
shelters-1
tall grassy fields-5
wood land -1
food habitat improvement is most needed.
First of all implementing a habittat practice may be benifit to some species and be detrimental to other.
Some habitat like grassfield/ grassland can be changed dramatically in a year with low cost, while mature forest changes gradually ove some half centrury or century.