Regenerating Southwestern Oklahoma Wetland to create a habitat for Wildlife

I have a roughly 2 acre pond with a slough of overflow point and it has a a ravine type shape but it’s more smooth and I would love to use the area to create a habitat for critters that visit the pond and further benefit the wildlife of my property and the surrounding area!  Great herrins, raccoons, frogs and other critters visit the pond and I’d love to store the run off into the ground rather than it run off.  I would love some suggestions on doing so !😁

One of the best ways to create a habitat for wildlife is to make shelters for the critters you want to attract.

Benjamin said, 'Great herrins, raccoons, frogs and other critters visit the pond

For the Great Blue Herons, I would furnish nesting material plus places for them to nest, which might be large fallen trees made into brush piles.  

Raccoons would benefit from wood structures made from fallen trees, limbs commonly also called brush piles.

Frogs probably would benefit from brush piles and rock piles.

Here are a couple of threads you might find interesting:

https://permies.com/t/57143/shelters-habitat/Creating-habitat-wildlife

https://permies.com/t/134171/Creating-rock-log-piles-deal

Thank you for the advice!!  Very helpful...

Thank you, Benjamin, for sharing and trying to help the wildlife.

We manage wildlife as part of our property ownership so if you can benefit from some of the training we get as landowners I would be glad to answer any of your questions.