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As urban development continues to expand across the state, it is important that North Carolinians recognize the value of reptile and amphibian populations and learn how to conserve them.

• Urban Wildlife
• Amphibians
• Herps
• Snakes
• Reptiles

You can attract the many butterflies found throughout North Carolina to your backyard by following the simple practices described in this publication.

• Wildlife
• Urban Landscaping
• Butterflies
• Butterfly
• Urban Wildlife
• Wildlife Habitats

North Carolina's native plants provide well-adapted food and cover for the state's wildlife. This publication describes how to develop a landscape of native plants that attracts a diverse mix of wildlife to your property.

• Landscaping
• Wildlife Habitats
• Native Plants

This publication discusses the benefits that land managers derive by managing wildlife habitat through controlled burning. The importance of fire to wildlife, when to burn, how to burn, and wildlife considerations are covered.

• Wildlife Management
• Fire
• Wildlife Habitats
• Forest Management

This Wildlife Chapter from the Extension Gardener Handbook teaches readers to recognize the value of wildlife in the landscape and how to create a suitable back yard wildlife habitat. It also examines wildlife challenges and strategies discouraging pest, game, non-game, and federally protected migratory bird species.

• Wildlife Management
• Rabbits
• Voles
• Songbirds
• Urban Wildlife
• Butterflies
• Pollinators
• Pigeons
• Moles
• Groundhogs
• Raccoons
• Deer
• Woodpeckers
• Hummingbirds
• Wildlife
• Wildlife Habitats
• Snakes

This publication describes how you can transform your backyard into an area that welcomes nectar-seekers, such as hummingbirds and butterflies.

• Wildlife Management
• Wildlife
• Butterflies
• Butterfly

Bats serve as pollinators of many food plants and are the only predator of night-flying insects. This publication explains the steps you can take to encourage bats on private lands, including building and installing bat boxes.

• Wildlife Management
• Wildlife
• Bats

This publication describes how homeowners can create backyards and other urban habitats that attract a variety of songbirds.

• Urban Forestry
• Wildlife
• Wildlife Habitats

Owls play an important role in the balance of forest and open land environments. This publication discusses management of habitat to promote owl populations.

• Owls
• Wildlife Management
• Wildlife

This publication discusses how to successfully build, install and maintain nest boxes for songbirds.

• Birds
• Songbirds
• Wildlife
• Wildlife Management

This publication describes the habitat, food, cover, water habits and home range of the white-tailed deer. It also provides tips to improve the deer's habitat.

• Wildlife Management
• Wildlife
• Deer

This publication describes the habitat, food, cover, water habits, and home range of the bobwhite quail in North Carolina. The publication also includes tips on improving the habitat of the bobwhite quail.

• Wildlife Management
• Bobwhite Quail
• Wildlife

This publication describes the habitat, food, cover, water habits and home range of the cottontail rabbit. Also included are tips on improving the rabbit's habitat.

• Wildlife Management
• Rabbits
• Wildlife

This publication describes creating and protecting snags (standing dead or dying trees) and downed logs (a log lying on or near the forest floor) as potential habitats for a wide range of wildlife species.

• Wildlife Habitats
• Wildlife

This publication describes the habitat, food and water habits, cover and home range of a range of amphibians in North Carolina. Tips on constructing and maintaining a fishless pool are included.

• Wildlife Management
• Wildlife
• Amphibians
• Salamanders

This publication describes the habitat, food, water habits, cover and home range of raccoons in North Carolina. Tips on improving the habitat of the raccoon also are included.

• Wildlife Management
• Wildlife
• Raccoons

This publication functions as a dictionary for commonly used wildlife terms such as cover, daylighting, forage, mast and understory.

• Wildlife

This publication describes the habitat, food, water habits, home range and tree cover for the Eastern gray squirrel. Tips are provided for improving the squirrel's habitat as well as building a squirrel box.

• Wildlife Management
• Wildlife
• Squirrels

This publication describes the habitat, food, cover, water habits and home range of the black bear in North Carolina. Tips for improving the black bear's habitat also are included.

• Black Bears
• Wildlife Management
• Wildlife

This publication describes the habitat, food, cover and home range of the wood duck. It also offers tips on improving the wood duck's habitat, as well as instructions on building a wood duck nest.

• Wildlife Management
• Ducks
• Wildlife

Conservation subdivisions (CSDs) are a design strategy that attempts to preserve undivided, buildable tracts of land as communal open space for residents. This publication serves as a guide for the use of conservation design for land use planning. It covers the benefits of conservation subdivisions, barriers to its implementation in North Carolina and a case study in Orange County.

• Sustainability
• Urban Planning

This publication describes how to provide a suitable habitat for many wildlife species without significantly reducing timber production or cash flow from timber sales.

• Wildlife Management
• Pines
• Forest Stewardship
• Forest Management