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How to attract more native wildlife species in urban areas.

 
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Hello folks. I wanna find out how can I draw more native mammal species such as cottontail rabbits, deer and white footed mice, shrews, voles, bats and few others to an urban wildlife habitat without drawing in house mice, black or brown rats and stray cats and dogs. I wanna draw more native to build a healthy ecosystem for future generations. There are more native habitats that are shrinking to islands every single day by heavy human development and pollution to waterways. I also wanna draw in more prairie or wetland type of birds cause my region has a mix of prairie and wetland habitat that harbor many rare wildlife and plant species that are found nowhere else. How can we build more greenways for native creatures to aid them to a better life in cities where there's some strong refuge for them? If anybody has more ideas to help improve conditions for wildlife in urban places, please let me know. Thanks!
 
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Good morning!
I am no expert. It occurs to me that Maslow's hierarchy of needs applies to all creatures.
Shelter- be it species specific nesting boxes, intentional deadfalls or dense plantings of shrubs.
Water- small shallow ponds, birdbaths, pebbled puddles in multiple places
Food- intentional plantings of food sources from low growing to fruiting shrubs to flowering/fruiting trees

I do not think in creating "habitat" that you get to choose which critters use it. I also know first hand that creating a balance between what's for critters and what's for you is a fine line sometimes. Losing an entire blackberry crop to raccoons in one night is frustrating.
My greatest frustration though comes from humans. While some things can be "prettied up" for those who do not get it, the constant battles over your paradise not fitting in with the traditional, conventional yard can be saddening.
Hope this helps!
 
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We do wildlife management which involves providing a lot of different methods.

Simply wildlife management involves providing food, water, and shelter.

Food can be provided by planting native plant foods that the wildlife like to eat.  This could be a simple butterfly garden or a food plot to attract larger animals.

Letting the trees and bushes grow up your fence lines instead of keeping them manicured.  This way the wildlife has more cover to hide in plus more places for nesting areas.

Adding shelter by creating structures to your land with limbs and branch piles, rock piles, rock slabs, single logs, and building earth mounds, to name a few ways.

Think about where the wildlife you mention would like to live. Different species all have different places where they live.

For water, there are several ways to furnish water such as a bird bath, a water tank, or a pond.
 
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Greetings! Missed you all on here. I'm creating a hedge habitat to draw in more birds and other creatures to feed and shelter year in and year out. I wanna shelter some medium size animals such as rabbits and a couple of others. How I draw in rabbits in urban areas?
 
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Try planting some clover...

FYI- rabbits also love kudzu. but I wouldn't recommend planting it. You could harvest some wild kudzu leaves and put it out for them.
 
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