Double-down Duos: Fragmentation
Fragmentation is the term biologists and ecologists use to describe the chopped up pieces of natural habitat that isolates wildlife from safe foraging, hunting, breeding and shelter. How you manage your yard can make a difference. Instead of large areas of lawn and a few landscape plants, we need to have many, connected patches of native plants and WAY less lawn! If we work together along our borders and edges to add a variety of native plants (trees, shrubs, flowers and grasses) then we can start to create wildlife corridors that will reconnect our yards to the larger parcels of healthy habitat often found in parks and preserves.
Photo used with permission from Ohio Prairie Association