From Montgomery County's Penn State Cooperative Extension Office:

Pennsylvania’s vast forests have always supported an abundance and variety of wildlife. Although a majority of Pennsylvania’s woodland owners now own less than 10 acres, these small landscapes can make a positive difference for the state’s wildlife. By enhancing your existing woods or creating natural areas on your land, you can attract  and support wildlife and reduce your energy costs, cleaning our water and filtering our air.  

Penn State Extension along with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, the Pennsylvania Game Commission and DCNR Bureau of Forestry are sponsoring the Wildlife in Your Backyard Woods workshop to be held in southeast Pennsylvania this winter.  Participants will learn essential information about the region’s wildlife and how to implement simple stewardship practices to create or improve habitat. Topicswill include: tree & shrub selection, assessing your land’s potential, beneficial insects, deer management, converting lawn to natural areas, attracting birds, and more.

When:

8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan 27

 Where:

Morgantown Holiday Inn, 6170 Morgantown Road, Morgantown, PA 19543 -- Exit 298 off the PA Turnpike

Cost:

$40 per person; $50 per couple

For more information contact:

Julianne Schieffer, Penn State Extension, 610-489-4315; jxs51@psu.edu

Craig Highfield, Alliance for the Chesapeake, 410-267-5723; chighfield@chesapeakebay.net

Or visit: http://www.forestryforthebay.org/files/WildlifeBackyard3.pdf